Forecasts
| Apr 23, 2025
Source: Ģą˝AV Forecast
While Argentina is opening its economy to foreign businesses, Brazil and Mexico are taking steps to curb the growing popularity of Asia-based ecommerce platforms like Shopee, AliExpress, Shein, and Temu. Argentina eliminated tariffs on international ecommerce purchases up to $400 for personal use and raised the tax-exempt purchase limit from $1,000 to $3,000 in December 2024.
Report
| Jan 6, 2025
This is the Q1 2025 installment of our quarterly “Ad Spending Benchmarks” series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.​
Report
| Apr 18, 2025
This is the Q1 2025 installment of our quarterly “Ad Spending Benchmarks” series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.​
Report
| Apr 18, 2025
This is the Q1 2025 installment of our quarterly “Ad Spending Benchmarks” series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.​
Report
| Apr 18, 2025
This is the Q1 2025 installment of our quarterly “Ad Spending Benchmarks” series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.
Report
| Apr 18, 2025
Chart
| Apr 1, 2025
Source: Ģą˝AV
The news: Consumers increasingly see connected TV (CTV) ads as helpful during the holiday shopping season, according to LG Ad Solutions’ latest study. A growing number—59%—say CTV ads help guide holiday purchases, a 43% YoY spike.
Home screen CTV ads are clicking—26% of shoppers find them helpful for purchases, up 105% YoY. For advertisers, they’re fast becoming high-impact conversion tools amid rising ad loads.
Our take:
As holiday shopping habits extend into events like Prime Day and Cyber Monday, advertisers that align messaging, timing, and format across CTV platforms will win both attention and conversions.
Article
| Jul 10, 2025
In early testing, Samsung reports Mobile Conversion exceeded 7-day return on ad spend (ROAS) targets by up to 150%. The system dynamically adjusts bids and creative based on real-time engagement signals. It works in tandem with mobile measurement partners like AppsFlyer and Adjust for full-funnel attribution.
Article
| Jul 10, 2025
Chart
| Mar 31, 2025
Source: Cart.com
Chart
| Mar 31, 2025
Source: Cart.com
The news: Out-of-home (OOH) and TV advertising are outperforming popular channels like connected TV (CTV) and digital across metrics, per a five-year study from Clear Channel Outdoor and Kantar. Our take: OOH and TV advertising will continue playing a critical role in an effective omnichannel strategy, and the most savvy advertisers will recognize the enduring effectiveness of these channels for reaching key audiences when they’re likely to purchase.
Article
| Jul 9, 2025
Chart
| Mar 31, 2025
Source: Cart.com
To access both first-party data and high-intent consumers, advertisers have increasingly embraced retail media networks (RMNs). 83% of advertisers worldwide plan to either maintain or increase their RMNs ad spend in 2025, per an October 2024 NCSolutions survey.
Article
| Jun 10, 2025
The news: Fortnite-maker Epic Games settled its antitrust lawsuit against Samsung, ending claims that Samsung and Google blocked rival app stores, per Bloomberg.
Epic had accused Samsung’s “Auto Blocker” of preventing third-party app store downloads, alleging collusion with Google. Samsung and Google previously denied wrongdoing, calling Epic’s claims “baseless” and “meritless.”
Our take: With Epic’s continued disruption of app store ecosystems, marketers should prepare for a fragmented but freer market—alternative app stores allow more control over promotions, subscriptions, and bundled offerings.
Article
| Jul 8, 2025
Report
| Feb 19, 2025
The news: DoorDash’s acquisition spree continued with its $175 million purchase of ad tech firm Symbiosis.
The deal will expand the company’s offsite capabilities, enabling advertisers to run campaigns across search, social and display channels that are integrated with DoorDash’s closed-loop measurement system.
Our take: DoorDash’s Symbiosis acquisition and ad updates should help the company attract bigger brands and retailers to its ad platform—especially as demand for its core delivery services remains healthy.
Article
| Jun 11, 2025
The news: Dick’s Sporting Goods’ retail media arm, Dick’s Media, is partnering with Roku to bring its shopper data to connected TV, per Adweek.
Our take: Dick’s sees retail media as a long-term growth engine, and its partnership with Roku should enhance its ability to compete with larger players by combining rich loyalty data with precise streaming insights.
While Dick’s Media already offered brands a robust mix of in-store and digital ad opportunities, the expanded Roku partnership enables more targeted, measurable, and high-impact campaigns—especially as connected TV becomes a core pillar in the modern advertising mix.
Article
| Jun 10, 2025
Chart
| Mar 31, 2025
Source: Ģą˝AV
WeChat’s Weixin (China): An all-in-one platform for social networking, payments, ecommerce, and more, with over 1.3 billion users in China. VKontakte (VK) (Russia): Russia’s leading social network, similar to Facebook, with over 60 million daily users. Nextdoor (USA): A neighborhood-focused platform for local community engagement and business promotion in the US.
Article
| Jul 3, 2025
Methodology: Estimates are based on the analysis of various elements related to the ad spending market, including macro-level economic conditions, historical trends of the advertising market, historical trends of each medium in relation to other media, reported revenues from major ad publishers, estimates from other research firms, data from benchmark sources, consumer media consumption trends, consumer
Article
| Jul 3, 2025
The news: Anime is gaining popularity across the globe, per a recent Dentsu report highlighting anime viewership trends, proving that marketers who haven’t yet paid attention to the medium need to tap in. 50% of Gen Z watches anime weekly, with 14% watching daily. Millennials also tune in frequently, with nearly half (48%) watching daily or weekly. Our take: Savvy marketers will pay attention to anime as a prime chance to reach the demographics driving the future—but going beyond a surface-level understanding of the medium will determine which marketers succeed and which fall behind.
Article
| Jul 3, 2025
The news: Google is launching Offerwall, a new Ad Manager tool that lets users unlock publisher content through ads, surveys, or payments—part of a broader effort to mend relationships with publishers facing traffic loss from AI Overviews and eroding ad share. Publishers say Google pays less than rivals like PubMatic and Magnite, and AI-driven zero-click searches have dropped site traffic significantly.
Our take: With a DOJ remedies trial looming and ChatGPT traffic rising fast, Google’s publisher outreach isn’t just damage control—it’s existential. If AI is to remain useful and ethical, supporting the content it’s trained on is a must.
Article
| Jul 3, 2025
The news: Cloudflare, which serves 20% of the web and 35% of the Fortune 500, launched beta tests of Pay per Crawl, a private marketplace that lets websites charge AI companies for scraping content.
It’s a strategy other content delivery networks (CDNs) will likely follow that could signal the end of AI’s unchecked scraping.
Key takeaway: Though still in beta, Pay per Crawl could give websites a new layer of protection—and a path to profit—if AI companies agree to pay for content they've long used without compensation. If AI wants to keep reading the internet, it may finally have to pay the bill.
Article
| Jul 2, 2025
Chart
| Aug 1, 2025
Source: Alphabet; Meta; Amazon