The global retail media market retains significant momentum, with ad investment projected to surpass $200 billion (€173.8bn) by 2027, reports WARC Media. However, underlying this growth is an evolving industry. As brands consolidate their ad spend across fewer retail media networks and sponsored search growth slows, retailers must reinvent themselves as ‘full-funnel’ platforms offering granular display and off-site solutions, whilst preparing for the impacts of agentic […]

UK advertising spend is expected to increase by 7.3 per cent to a total of £12 billion (€13.6bn) in the final quarter of this year, according to the Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report. The forecasts also show that total ad spend is set to rise by 8.2 per cent to £46 billion during 2025 as a […]

The shape of television media is changing, as consumers shift from linear TV to connected TV and the opportunity of TV advertising becomes more addressable. This transition has prompted a debate about what counts as television in 2025 – and whether TV advertising should be defined by format, device or media owner. WARC’s Global Ad […]

The search landscape is evolving beyond traditional search engines to social and video platforms, and is outpacing AI search. According to WARC Media, search advertising now accounts for nearly a quarter (22 per cent) of all media budgets, and forecasts global search advertising spend to reach $248.6 billion this year, rising to $265.5 billion in […]

UK advertising spend rose 8 per cent to a total of £10.6 billion (€12.2bn) in the first three months of 2025, +1.4 percentage points ahead of the April forecast, according to the AA/WARC Expenditure Report – with improved performance of search and retail media critical to this rise. “The latest survey data highlights buoyancy in […]

Since Reddit’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2024, the platform has captured the media industry’s attention with its high-double-digit advertising revenue growth, pushing ad income to a forecast $1.8 billion (€1.5bn) this year, finds WARC. Striving to be an “alternative to social media”, Reddit’s conversational and text-oriented engagement style gathers like-minded people, while users’ highly […]

A study from WARC, the experts in marketing effectiveness, has found that global advertising spend is now on course to grow 6.2 per cent this year to $1.16 trillion, a downgrade of half a percentage point (pp) from WARC’s March forecast due to growing market volatility. Key sectors such as retail (-6.1 per cent) and […]

As measurement continues to evolve, WARC, the specialist in marketing effectiveness, has released The Future of Measurement 2025, a report that explores the emerging trends in media and creative measurement. It focuses on three key areas: the growth of marketing experiments, the price measurement gap, and the rise of AI-powered creative testing. Paul Stringer, Managing […]

The latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report shows that the UK’s ad market recorded a 10.4 per cent increase in investment to a total of £42.6 billion (€50.09bn) in 2024. The latest dataset shows online formats, when combined, grew 13.2 per cent last year with £4 in every £5 of ad budgets now spent online. New […]

The advertising industry has a breaking news problem, according to WARC. Today’s abundance of hard news stories – from trade wars to armed conflicts – draw audiences but not ad dollars to content publishers and broadcasters. Globally, newsbrand ad spend is forecast to fall to $32.3 billion (€28.5bn) this year, a 33.1 per cent decrease […]