Report
| Oct 22, 2024
Welcome to our latest edition of “Ad Spending Benchmarks.” This series provides marketers with critical data to help them benchmark their budget allocations against the market. In this deck—one of six in the series—we cover our latest forecasts for programmatic ad spending. This deck will:.
Report
| Oct 22, 2024
Report
| Oct 22, 2024
Welcome to our latest edition of “Ad Spending Benchmarks.” This series provides marketers with critical data to help them benchmark their budget allocations against the market. In this deck—one of six in the series—we cover our latest forecasts for out-of-home (OOH) ad spending. This deck will:.
Report
| Oct 22, 2024
Map out the ad spending growth trajectories for both terrestrial radio and digital audio through 2028. Show ad buyers how podcast ad spending will shape the market for digital audio services ad spending. Help publishers and solution providers think through how they can capitalize on the near-term trajectory of audio ad spending across different media.
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| Oct 22, 2024
Unilever’s investment in influencer marketing will rise from about 30% to 50% of the company’s total ad spend. Fernandez suggests that an influencer-first strategy will make Unilever more trustworthy to consumers who are skeptical of traditional corporate messaging. “There are 19,000 zip codes in India. There are 5,764 municipalities in Brazil. I want one influencer in each of them,” Fernandez said.
Article
| Mar 14, 2025
Article
| Feb 5, 2025
Spotify keeps Bill Simmons on board: The Ringer founder extends his contract as Spotify pivots toward video podcasting and sustainable ad-driven content.
Article
| Mar 13, 2025
Influencer marketing spend will grow15% YoY, outpacing digital and social ad spending, and will reach $10.52 billion in 2025, ĢAV forecasts. Despite its growth, influencer marketing has maintained a core communication issue—no one knows what to call the people who are doing the work.
Article
| Mar 13, 2025
US travel sales will approach $368 billion by 2028. To act on this opportunity, brands and travel industry professionals need to understand online travel research trends and shopper behaviors.
Report
| Sep 27, 2024
Women’s sports advertising is thriving: TV viewership is up 140%, ad spend has doubled, and in-game ads drive 40% more engagement than primetime TV.
Article
| Mar 12, 2025
Show why recent trends in US ad spending raise the possibility of brand safety challenges this year. Analyze social media platforms’ past and current content moderation practices. Present findings on how generative AI (genAI) dramatically ups the ante for brands to protect themselves from toxic content. Recommend steps marketers should take to mitigate risk.
Report
| Apr 10, 2024
Will December’s strong ad spend hold into 2025? Economic uncertainties could cause a cooldown, but regulatory shifts offer some relief.
Article
| Jan 27, 2025
Compared with other traditional media channels, out-of-home (OOH) is resilient. US OOH ad spend will grow 5.2% this year, per our March 2024 forecast, significantly more than TV, radio, and print, which will mainly see declining figures over the next few years.
Article
| Sep 13, 2024
Moderate growth won’t be enough for OOH to maintain its relatively small share of the total US ad market, which will drop from 2.4% this year to 2.0% in 2028. One in 40 US ad spending dollars went to OOH in 2023, but that ratio will be 1 in 50 ad dollars in 2028, mainly due to the very rapid increase in ad spending going to connected TV (CTV) and other digital formats.
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| Jun 24, 2024
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| Apr 1, 2025
Source: ĢAV
Google, OpenAI explore ads: The moves indicate that ads will be a crucial part of how AI search engines generate future revenues.
Article
| Mar 10, 2025
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| Apr 1, 2025
Source: emarketing.fr
The number of companies with more than $1 billion in annual US connected TV (CTV) ad sales jumped from two in 2020 to five this year. In a recent ĢAV webinar "CTV Watch: How Streamers Compare in Time Spent and Ad Revenues,” our analyst Ross Bones explained the top trends in CTV viewership and ad spend.
Article
| Oct 18, 2024
US media agency professionals executing YouTube campaigns rated brand safety a top objective, per Pixability. A challenging market: With sports-betting ad dollars shrinking, platforms may preemptively distance themselves from gambling’s volatility and potential to cause gambling addiction and harm. ĢAV 2.5 million US adults (1%) meet the criteria for a severe gambling problem in a given year.
Article
| Mar 7, 2025
Mobile ad fraud is evolving: A new scheme exploited bid requests and fake installs, highlighting why marketers must invest in fraud detection to protect ad spend.
Article
| Mar 7, 2025
Brands making the calculation that political favor is worth more than proven ad dollar ROI—X’s ad revenue struggles go back to when it was still Twitter—should remain cautious about advertising on the platform and understand that this decision might do more harm than good.
Article
| Mar 7, 2025
Ethan, you put together the report for us. The two other gents we have on the call worked on the numbers behind the scenes, but could you set the table for us? What top line is time spent with media looking like this year? Ethan Cramer-Flood (03:35):. Absolutely. Yeah, so this is US time spent with media 2025 hot off the presses.
Audio
| Mar 7, 2025
Modelo’s college basketball ad spend grows 48%: The investment highlights the lucrative opportunity of advertising during live sporting events.
Article
| Mar 6, 2025
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| Mar 27, 2025
Source: Nielsen