Note: Includes advertising that appears on desktop and laptop computers as well as mobile phones, tablets, and other internet-connected devices, and includes all the various formats of advertising on those platforms
Additional Note: Display ad spending includes banners, rich media, sponsorships, video, and ads such as Facebook's Feed Ads and X's Promoted Posts, and includes display-oriented formats on social networks, even if triggered by search queries. Rich media ad spending includes in-stream and outstream video ads, includes nonvideo ads which feature various levels of interaction (including scrolling, expanding, or clicking within the ad) such as splash screens, pop-up and pop-under ads, daughter windows, interstitials and superstitials, and digital audio ads for all formats mentioned; data prior to 2017 excludes in-stream video ads. Search ad spending includes contextual text links, paid inclusion, and paid listings, and excludes display-oriented formats on social networks, even if triggered by search queries. Video ad spending includes in-stream video ads such as those appearing before, during, or after digital video content in a video player (pre-roll, mid-roll, or post-roll video ads) and video overlays, includes social network in-stream video ads and outstream video ads, such as native, in-feed (including video ads in the Facebook Feed and X's Promoted Posts), in-article, in-banner, and interstitial video ads; data prior to 2017 excludes outstream video ads. eMarketer benchmarks its Canada digital ad spending figures against data from IAB Canada, for which the last full year measured was 2021.
Methodology: Estimates are based on the analysis of various elements related to the ad spending market, including macro-level economic conditions, historical trends of the advertising market, historical trends of each medium in relation to other media, reported revenues from major ad publishers, estimates from other research firms, data from benchmark sources, consumer media consumption trends, consumer device usage trends, and eMarketer interviews with executives at ad agencies, brands, media publishers, and other industry leaders.