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UK Ad Spending Benchmarks: H1 2025

Forecasts and Insights for Total Media, Digital, Search, Display, Retail Media, CTV, Social Network, and Programmatic Ad Spending

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This is the first installment of our biannual “UK Ad Spending Benchmarks” series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.
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This is EMARKETER’s H1 2025 “UK Ad Spending Benchmarks.” In each edition of this series, we look at the latest forecasts for total media ad spending and digital ad spending by format, device, and channel, with a deck dedicated to programmatic. Each deck in this series gives marketers the data they need to benchmark their own spending.

This report collection can help you: 

  • Benchmark marketing performance, allocate budget for campaigns, and develop media strategy (brands and agencies) 
  • Determine market sizing (brands, agencies, media platforms, solution providers) 

Click here to view our full forecast for UK total media ad spending.

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  1. Key Developments in UK Ad Spending
  1. Index of Benchmarks
  1. Media Gallery

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Bill Fisher

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Vladimir de Leon
Chart Editor
Diego Dell’Orco
Eleni Digalaki
Donte Gibson
Senior Charts Editor
Vladimir Hanzlik
Executive Editor and SVP, Content
Emma Noyes
Graphic Designer, Data Visualization
Naomi Rebuelta
Copy Editor
Heather Sprung
Senior Editor
Matt Torpey
Senior Chart Editor
Emman Velasco
Chart Editor
Paul Verna
VP, Content
Antonella Yannelli
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