# Vital Viral Marketing Charts This Chart Breaks Down Online Marketing Budgets By Jonathon Brown | Published 2013-01-15 | Marketing Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/online-marketing-budgets References: [visual.ly](http://visual.ly/how-much-do-you-spend-online-marketing) This infographic looks at [online marketing budgets](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/overstory) and tries to find patterns and provide information on how companies spend their money and where. Online marketing budgets are important because of how prevalent online activity has become. Very few successful businesses these days survive without some form of online marketing, sheerly due to the incredible opportunities that live online. With more than 2 billion Internet users in 2012, the net is a place a third of the world’s population has access to. The average monthly online marketing budget according to [this infographic](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/infographic-ai) is just over $200 per month. Most of that money is spent on web hosting services, with some also going toward [search engine optimization subscriptions](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/marketer-tools). ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 3.1/10 - Popularity: 33% | Activity: 53% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 50% men, 50% women - Primary generations: Millennial, Gen X - Top markets: North America, Europe, Asia ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Marketing](https://www.trendhunter.com/marketing) > [Commercials](https://www.trendhunter.com/commercials) ## Key Themes ### What's Driving This Trend - **Online Marketing Budget Trends:** Identifying trends in online marketing budgets to optimize spending. - **Web Hosting Services Trends:** Exploring new opportunities in web hosting services for more efficient and cost-effective options. - **Search Engine Optimization Subscription Trends:** Identifying shifts in the market for better choices for search engine optimization subscriptions. ### Who This Affects Most - **Digital Marketing Industry:** Understanding the market for online marketing services. - **Web Hosting Industry:** Analyzing opportunities for innovation in the web hosting industry. - **SEO Industry:** Identifying potential for disruption in the SEO industry. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Creative Text-to-Infographic Tools](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/infographic-tools.md) - [Influencer Analytic Tools](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/creatorspend.md) - [Short Video Marketing](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/viral-pulse.md) - [AI Marketing Tools](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/awesome-ai-marketing.md) - [Personal Finance Visualizers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/budget-visual.md) - [AI Infographic Generators](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/infography-v2.md) - [Affordable SEO Insights Platform](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/seo-stuff.md) - [Viral Video Databases](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/viral-ideas.md) - [AI Infographic Creation](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/charts-not-chapters.md)