eMarketer and Digital Advertising Growth
Douglas Clarke, eMarketer’s PR Manager – North America (dclark@emarketer.com) shared some information on the digital advertising market ahead of the large Advertising Week conference.
US Advertising Revenue
- In 2016, total media ad spending will reach $195.76 billion, an increase of 6.9% over last year.
- This year in the US, digital ad spending will reach $72.09 billion, a jump of 20.5% over last year.
- Digital will represent 36.8% of total media spending in the US.
- Mobile internet ad spending in the US will grow 45.3% this year to $45.66 billion.
- Mobile represents an increasing share of total digital ad spending – this year growing to 63.3%.
- US display ad spending will grow 28.4% this year to $34.56 billion.
- US search ad spending will grow 15.4% this year to $33.28 billion.
- Digital video ad spending will reach $10.30 billion this year, a jump of 34.1% over last year.
- TV ad spending will grow 3.5% this year to $71.29 billion.
- Social network ad spending in the US will grow 41.3% this year to $15.36 billion. It will represent 21.3% of total digital ad spending.
These growth numbers (!!!) are rather aggressive. Or, let’s face it, if you are in the advertising / digital industry — they are very impressive. If I still owned my agency I’d sure be going strong into mobile and video desktop and its relationship to Social and SEO.
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