I’m just coming out of the last session of this year’s DDC conference organized by the Kelsey Group. Again, a very good conference with interesting topics and multiple networking opportunities. Here are some random data points from the various speech and panels I heard in the last two days.

• Print media still represents 90% of total directory industry revenues
• 60% of SMEs do at least half of their business with other businesses
• 21% of SMEs have embraced cell phones and VOIP lines (instead of the traditional phone company land line)
• 34% of SMEs ad budget is dedicated to online media (including web site expenditures)
• Automotive represents 60% of Trader Corp’s revenues (Trader Canada)
• Jingle: at least 90% of their revenues come from national advertisers. 5% of their queries are category-based. They have close to 100,000 advertisers.
• White Directory Publishers will generate $3-4M in online video revenues in 2008.
• The optimal length for an online local video ad is 45 seconds.