Global adspend growth to accelerate to +4.7% in 2018, reaching a total of US$572bn

Global adspend growth to accelerate to +4.7% in 2018, reaching a total of US$572bn

WARC, the international marketing intelligence service, has released its latest monthly Global Ad Trends report digesting up-to-date insights and evidenced thinking from the worldwide advertising industry. Focusing on advertising expenditure in 96 markets, this latest Global Ad Trends report includes key trends in spending patterns by media and geography since 2009, a round-up of 2017, […]

WARC highlights five key marketing challenges for the coming year

WARC highlights five key marketing challenges for the coming year

WARC, the global marketing intelligence service, has today released Toolkit 2018, an annual guide to key trends and challenges that marketers around the world will be faced with in the coming year. At the heart of the report is a survey of more than 600 marketing and advertising professionals around the world to obtain their […]

UK Advertising Delivers Strongest H1 on Record

UK Advertising Delivers Strongest H1 on Record

UK advertising expenditure grew 3.7% to £10.8bn during the first six months of 2017, the largest H1 total of any year since monitoring began in 1982. The record investment highlighted in Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report data, published today, has led to an upgraded forecast for 2017 of 3.1% growth, which indicates annual spend in excess […]

WARC Reveals Effective MENA Marketing Trends of 2017

WARC Reveals Effective MENA Marketing Trends of 2017

WARC, the global marketing intelligence service, has today released its MENA Strategy Report 2017, an analysis of the region’s most effective marketing trends based on insights from the inaugural WARC Prize for MENA Strategy. Lucy Aitken, Case Study Editor at WARC, comments:”We’ve analysed all the submissions to establish unrivalled insights into how the region’s communication […]

UK advertising spend starts 2017 in growth according to Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report

UK advertising spend starts 2017 in growth according to Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report

UK advertising expenditure grew 1.3% year-on-year in Q1 2017 to reach £5,318m – the 15th consecutive quarter of growth but the slowest rate in almost four years, according to Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report data published on July 27. Overall market growth occurred despite a drop of -6.2% in total television advertising, its steepest fall since 2009. […]

UK Adspend Hits Record High in H1 2015

UK Adspend Hits Record High in H1 2015

UK advertising spending grew 5.8 per cent year-on-year to reach a record high of £9.42bn in the first half of 2015, with mobile growth exploding to break the billion pound barrier for the first time, according to new data from the Advertising Association/Warc. Digital channels continue to be the primary driver of growth, with internet […]