I found this at macalua.com.

Tracing back to the press release at IAB and I quote

The steady growth of online advertising is a clear indication that marketers continue to believe in the opportunities and effectiveness that this medium delivers in reaching and engaging their consumers," said Greg Stuart, CEO, Interactive Advertising Bureau. "The Interactive Advertising industry remains committed to the creation of a world class medium with best-of-breed standards, measurement guidelines, research and ad products for marketers and agencies."

In laymans terms, this means there's lots of money to be made in ads related opportunities such as

1. PPC publishing (adsense, ypn, chitika, and other contextual advertising)
2. Selling links, Blogads, text link ads
3. Adsense ebooks and information products
4. PPC marketing ebooks and info products

So, better make some move now and learn more about SEO and how to make money in contextual advertising.

[ more at IAB ]