Advertising Association and WARC Expenditure Report
The most trusted source of adspend data
- Covers all major media and ad formats
- Includes adspend by product category
- Quarterly data back to 1982 and projections for the next two years
- Data available in Excel format, via bespoke database queries or more than 150 standard tables
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Executive Summary Q4 2023
The latest AA/WARC survey data shows that UK ad spend rose 6.1% during 2023, to a total of £36.6bn. Growth was driven mostly by rises in search (+11.9%) and online display (+11.3%) formats which, combined, accounted for three-quarters (75.4%) of all spend. The UK's ad market is projected to grow by a further 5.8% this year and 4.5% in 2025, by when it will be worth more than £40bn.
Latest press release
UK advertising records £36.6bn spend in 2023
New forecasts show ad market’s value is set to reach £38.8bn this year and top £40bn by 2025.
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“The AA/WARC Expenditure Report is an invaluable source of critical information for the media industry. The quality of their historical data on advertising in the UK is unsurpassed.”
Brian Wieser
Founder, Madison and Wall
“AA/WARC figures are the gold standard for UK ad spend. We find the Expenditure Report essential for market analysis, as it enables us to view the top line shifts in media spend easily, while detailed and relevant category breakdowns make more in-depth research possible.”
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CEO, Enders Analysis
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