Canada Total Media Ad Spending Benchmarks: 2026

Forecasts and Insights for Total Media

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About This Report
This is the second installment of our “Canada Ad Spending Benchmarks” series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.

Welcome to our “Canada Ad Spending Benchmarks.” This series provides marketers with critical data to help them benchmark their budget allocations against the market. In this deck—one of five in the series—we cover our latest forecasts for total media ad spending.

This deck will:

  • Provide an overview of our total media ad spending and revenue forecasts as of September 2026, including breakdowns by channel, format, device, industry, and company
  • Help ad buyers benchmark their digital ad spending and budget allocations against the market
  • Help publishers and solution providers assess whether their digital ad revenue mix is in line with industry trends

authors

Paul Briggs

Contributors

Bill Fisher
Principal Analyst, UK
Madan Kumar
Copy Editor
Emma Noyes
Senior Graphic Designer, Data Visualization
Oscar Orozco
Senior Director, Forecasting
Heather Sprung
Director, Report Editing
Matt Torpey
Senior Data Visualization Editor
Johann Valderrama
Data Visualization Editor
Yoram Wurmser
Principal Analyst
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