UK Ad Spending Benchmarks: H2 2026

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

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This is the fourth 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 our H2 2026 “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 (a deck dedicated to programmatic appears in each H1 report). 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, develop media strategy, and determine market sizing (brands, agencies) 
  • Determine market sizing and win new business (media platforms, solution providers) 

authors

Bill Fisher

Contributors

Paul Briggs
Principal Analyst
Matteo Ceurvels
Carina Lamb
Senior Analyst
Emma Noyes
Senior Graphic Designer, Data Visualization
Heather Sprung
Director, Report Editing
Sakina Thanawala
Copy Editor
Matt Torpey
Senior Data Visualization Editor
Johann Valderrama
Data Visualization Editor
Antonella Yannelli
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