The Digital Ad Market Still Has Room to Grow

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Over the past decade, digital advertising has grown to become a huge business. Companies such as Google and Facebook rake in $10+ billion a year selling ad space on their various platforms and, just as the market as a whole, they show no signs of slowing down.

According to data from Statista’s Digital Market Outlook, search advertising is the largest piece of the digital advertising pie with global revenues amounting to $91 billion this year. Banner advertising ranks second with $43.5 billion in estimated revenue.

Statista’s analysts expect the digital ad market to grow at an average rate of 10.9 percent over the next five years, with social media and video advertising outpacing the overall market’s growth. For more insights and digital advertising trends, download the free market report “Digital Advertising: Banner”.

This chart shows estimated worldwide digital advertising revenue in 2016 and 2021.

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Worldwide Ad Spending Growth by Medium

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One of the golden rules of advertising is to always follow the eyeballs. And since many of us have our eyes fixed on our smartphones most of the time, it’s no surprise that advertising budgets are shifting to mobile devices as well.

According to Zenith’s latest global advertising forecast, advertisers will spend an additional $75 billion a year on mobile ads in 2018 compared to last year. By then, mobile devices will have overtaken the desktop internet to become the second-largest advertising medium behind television. Zenith expects annual mobile advertising spending to reach $128 billion a year by 2018, well ahead of the $91 billion expected to be spent on desktop internet ads.

This chart shows the estimated change in annual ad spending between 2015 and 2018.

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