The Business Insider earlier this week, with its Chart of the Day, showed how brutal the first six months of 2009 have been for advertising.
Compared to the same period a year ago, U.S. ad spending declined 15.4 percent during the first half of the year, according to Neilsen figures.
The bar chart shows a decline of about 13 percent at local newspapers and about 23 percent at national newspapers.
Of 11 sectors, all are down except cable TV, which grew 1.5 percent year-over-year. Internet advertising was down 1 percent, the best performance among the rest. Business-to-business magazines fared worst, falling by more than 30 percent.
Tags: Neilsen, Newspapers, Online, revenue, Television