Annual Internet advertising sales in Belarus are projected to total $500 000 by the end of 2005, more than twice the amount last year, according to e-belarus.org.
Major Internet advertisers in this month are GSM cell phone operators MTS and Velcom and car companies Ford, Mazda and Opel. Others included Adidas, ISP Atlant Telecom, Ericsson, National Academy of Science and Masmi research group, according to data from the Association of Advertising Agencies in the former Soviet republic.
Masmi used banners in the framework of “The Online monitor” project aimed at studying the Belarusian Internet audience.
