The Advertising Association/
WARC Expenditure Report

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Expenditure Report from the Advertising Association and WARC

  • 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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July 2021
Q1 2021
October 2021
Q2 2021
January 2022
Q3 2021
April 2022
Q4 2021
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UK adspend to grow 18.2% this year as recovery gathers pace

This is an upward revision from the 15.2% growth forecast in April and includes an estimated 54.7% rise during the second quarter – by far the highest on record.

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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

Brian Wieser
Global President, Business Intelligence, GroupM

We find the Expenditure Reports essential for market analysis. They enable us to view the top line shifts in media spend easily, while detailed and relevant category breakdowns make more in-depth research possible. AA/WARC figures are the gold standard for UK ad spend.

Douglas McCabe

Douglas McCabe
CEO and Director of Publishing and Tech, Enders Analysis