How much will generative AI-based ads, creative, and tools increase revenue for platforms, brands, agencies and publishers? New Street Research models trends and numbers to provide the outcome.
Retail brands are moving aggressively toward digital channels, while tech and finance firms are doubling down on performance marketing.
A Nielsen marketing survey finds 42.4% of ad-supported viewing time is now on streaming platforms, with ad spend estimated to increase 25% this year to over $20 billion.
Borrell projects local digital ad spending to grow by 3.9% in 2025 and maintain an annual growth rate of around 4% through 2028.
Search, display banners, streaming and CTV dominated local digital budgets last year, with Borrell Associates estimating the combined sectors will hold 78% of digital and 57% of total local
advertising within three years.
Analysts have begun lowering ecommerce and paid-media industry forecasts as tariff policies persist and consumer sentiment continues to fall. U.S. ecommerce growth for 2025 is now projected at 4.5%,
down from 7.5% -- and globally, excluding China, dropping to 6.5% from 9%.
Ad platforms with high exposure to performance-driven campaigns and Chinese brands face the biggest threat from higher tariffs on imports.
Alarmingly, the drop is most pronounced among Democrats, not Republicans, suggesting some kind of "information malaise" is setting in. Either that, or the party needs to reset itself fast.
Brands remain determined to increase influencer marketing spend, according to a survey from the World Federation of Advertisers. The influencer marketing industry has grown over $22 billion since
2016 -- rising from $1.7 billion to $24 billion in 2024, based on reports by Sprout Social.
Winterberry Group estimates investments in connected commerce and technology stacks will drive U.S. ad, marketing, and data expenditures to $585 billion.
The social-media platform known for user-led communities has more room for growth compared with some rivals.
Just as the House Judiciary Committee begins probing Omnicom and Interpublic for their "responsible" media policies, Stagwell is releasing well-timed research showing C/board-level support for news
media.
Although ad-supported streaming and digital platform businesses continue to show gains, a GfK study for the TVB says, ad-free streaming platforms are still a big part of the streaming marketplace.
According to a WARC Media report, Facebook has a global advertising audience of 2.2 billion. The recent integration of AI technologies and automation of ad campaigns is a major contributor to
Facebook's booming ad business.
WARC's forecast finds that while 65% expect business to improve, fewer think that will translate to more marketing funds. DEI continues to wither.
Global ad investment more than doubled in the past decade and grew 2.8 times faster than global economic output since 2014.
The strong brands of tomorrow are "unafraid to mix things up and are often the first in their category to experiment with innovative."
Four-fifths of CTV/OTT advertisers said streaming's value is greater than or equal to that of prime-time TV.
Ad-tech stock market darling The Trade Desk was downgraded by a New Street Research's equity research team this morning from a "neutral" to a "sell" rating, but the target price of its shares remained
unchanged at $86.
Made for Advertising in connected television apps waste budgets in a trend that continues to rise.
The joint study released today by TAG along with the 4As, ANA, and the IAB, determined that by working together the digital ad industry collectively saved an estimated $10.8 billion in 2023,
dramatically reducing fraud related to IVT in U.S. display and video ad channels by 92%.
Measured media spending in markets shifting to Mediaplus is estimated at $75 million by agency research firm COMvergence.
TikTok saw the strongest growth in ad spend, with about 27% vs. a year earlier.
"Open internet" had $35 billion in estimated ad spend in 2023, with "walled gardens" at $95 billion. Does The Trade Desk have growing influence for change?
While advertisers are in a period of rising ad prices, that could change in the second half of the year, according to a report released Wednesday.
A new 2023-24 estimate projects political ad revenue will rise to $10.7 billion - up from an earlier estimate of $10.2 billion, according to AdImpact. This would show 19% growth over the 2019-20
period, when political ad revenue totaled $9.02 billion.
Wieser estimates 13.2% of all TV/video viewing - gross ratings points - came from total ad-related networks and streaming viewing, slightly down from 13.3% a year ago.
Dubbed the "Ad Insights Hub," the service launches with 20 key reports, as well as an interactive advertising forecast dashboard.
The outlook for TV and CTV continues to be an "unsettled ad market," according to Bernstein Research, with projections that linear video ad spend will move down with the spend "slightly up to flat in
streaming," according to Laurent Yoon, media analyst for Bernstein, in a recent report.
Spending on creative and content spend for video-driven chanels should hit $56 billion this year, Winterberry Group forecasts.