Between 2007 and 2011, when U.S. employment was very sluggish, the number of jobs that rely on the ad-supported internet doubled to 5.1 million, according to Economic Value of the Advertising-Supported Internet Ecosystem, a study commissioned by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). This shows the importance of this sort of advertising to not only to the internet economy but the economy on a whole. In light of studies such as this, it's important that policymakers do not over regulate internet advertising.

While it makes sense for policymakers to look to new industries such as clean energy to power job creation, they often overlook the key role that information technology (IT) has played. Over the last decade, IT employment in the United States grew rapidly. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 2001 and 2011, over 742,000 new IT jobs were created. Indeed, employment in IT occupations in all industries grew more than 125 times faster than employment as a whole. And because of the growth in these highpaying jobs, GDP is over $104 billion larger in 2011 than it was in 2001.