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title: "Do You Advertise on Google? Here’s the Competition."
description: "Wordstream has a great infographic this morning on “What Industries Contributed to Google’s $37.9 Billion in 2011 Revenues?” If you’re running PPC campaigns on Google Adwords,..."
url: https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/do-you-advertise-on-google-heres-the-competition/
date: 2012-01-23
modified: 2025-10-10
author: "Monique Sherrett"
categories: ["Search Marketing (SEO & Paid)"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Do You Advertise on Google? Here’s the Competition.

Wordstream has a great infographic this morning on [“What Industries Contributed to Google’s $37.9 Billion in 2011 Revenues?”](http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2012/01/23/google-revenues) If you’re running PPC campaigns on Google Adwords, then you might want to check this out because 96% of that $37.9 Billion came from advertising. Is your industry among the top 10 industries that spent the most on Google Ads in 2011? And, are you also bidding on the 5 commonly used keywords? If yes, check out the average cost per click—$1.20 to $43.39 depending on the industry and keyword phrase.

  [!(http://www.wordstream.com/images/google-earnings.png)](http://www.wordstream.com/articles/google-earnings)

 

(c) WordStream, a (http://www.wordstream.com/google-adwords) and (http://www.wordstream.com) software tools vendor.

 

 

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