Global advertising spend is on course for 12.6% growth this year to reach US$665bn, an upgrade from 6.7% initially projected, as the global ad market rebounds strongly from the Covid-19 downturn of last year, finds WARC, the international intelligence service. Further growth, of 8.2%, is forecast for 2022, by when the global advertising market will be worth more than US$700bn.
New quarterly research from 100 markets by WARC finds that advertising spend in Q2 2021 rose 23.6% to a total of US$157.6bn – a new high for a second-quarter period and the strongest rise in over a decade.
Growth in the second quarter was driven mostly by online formats, which collectively saw spend rise by 31.2
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