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
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| Nov 20, 2024
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| Aug 27, 2024
Despite impressive time spent, digital audio gets relatively few ad dollars. Although consumers will spend an average of 2:42 each day in 2024 listening to audio (21.4% of total media time spent), advertisers will buy only $17.61 billion in audio ads, roughly 4.5% of total US advertising spend.
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| Apr 17, 2024
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| May 14, 2024
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| May 14, 2024
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| Dec 18, 2024
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| Dec 18, 2024
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| Dec 18, 2024
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| Oct 2, 2024
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Among major streaming services, Netflix’s time spent share exceeds ad revenues the most, indicating it has the most room to expand.
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| Oct 18, 2023
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| Aug 19, 2024
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| Oct 13, 2023
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| Oct 31, 2023
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Affiliate marketing is now a $10 billion industry, and marketers recognize its effectiveness. Yet many aren’t prioritizing affiliate marketing spend, due to difficulty with attribution or classifying it as social media spend. Here are five charts demonstrating the state of affiliate marketing.
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| Nov 20, 2024
How We’re Revising Our Commerce and Ad Spend Forecasts. To reflect the uncertainty around the tariffs, we’ve developed three possible scenarios to show retail spending and ad spending in 2025:. Limited tariffs: Our existing forecast, produced in Q1 2025, now serves as the scenario with the least amount of disruption.
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| Apr 9, 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 of major ad publishers, estimates from other research firms, data from benchmark sources, consumer media consumption trends, consumer device
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| Nov 15, 2024
The first $12 billion ad spend US presidential election is underway. That ad spend figure breaks 2020’s by more than $2 billion. Whether or not brands engage in political messaging, they will be impacted by the volume of ad inventory and how the election influences consumer sentiment.
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| Aug 21, 2024
In January, we forecast that if a TikTok ban was enforced, about 4 in 10 of its ad dollars would wind up with Meta. YouTube was the next largest recipient and would receive about one-tenth of TikTok’s ad dollars. Despite the changes in the media landscape, upfront advertising is here to stay.
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| May 7, 2025
Digital newspaper ad spending could increase as it did during Trump’s previous term, but print newspaper spending will continue declining. Digital newspaper ad spending rose from $4.04 billion to $4.74 billion from 2016 to 2020, while print newspaper ad spending plummeted from $13.33 billion to $5.5 billion.
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| Nov 6, 2024
Growth in travel media network ad spending will slow as economic pressures affect the travel industry. Starting from a small base, financial media network ad spending growth will pick up momentum through 2026. “Other” commerce media network ad spending is set to exceed $4 billion by 2026. Section 4: Recommendations. How should advertisers capitalize on the changes in commerce media?
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| Feb 14, 2025
Companies like Apple resumed spending on the platform after a 15-month pause, while Amazon significantly increased its ad spending on X despite pulling nearly all of its ad spending from the platform in 2024. The change is largely in response to Musk’s new political power. Brands are hoping to improve relationships with Musk and, in turn, curry favor with the current administration.
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| Mar 31, 2025
Consumers spend most of their daily digital time with mobile devices—and ad spending reflects that. But as viewers shift to ad-supported tiers and streamers add inventory, connected TV (CTV) is closing in.
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| Aug 20, 2024
Major Chinese advertisers including Temu and Shein contribute a substantial portion of ad spending on Meta platforms, accounting for 11% of ad spending in 2024 across Meta apps, amounting to billions of dollars. This issue is exacerbated by the elimination of the de minimis exception, which allowed foreign retailers to ship low-cost goods to US consumers.
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| May 1, 2025
Social platforms have been bolstered by ecommerce-driven ad spending, automated ad offerings such as Meta’s Advantage+ suite, and an ever-increasing emphasis on video. Key Question: What is responsible for the strong growth projected for social ad spending?
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| Dec 20, 2024
The rebrand is a small step in Apple’s overall ad strategy to combat slower ad growth, but past efforts to expand its ad business haven’t been wildly successful. Apple’s services revenues missed the mark in Q4 2024, falling below investor expectations—suggesting that its ad initiatives might not be performing as well as hoped.
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| Apr 15, 2025