Source: EMARKETER Forecast, July 2025 - July 2025
Note: includes advertising that appears on desktop and laptop computers as well as mobile phones, tablets, and other internet-connected devices for all formats mentioned; includes banners, rich media, sponsorships, video, and ads such as Facebook's Feed Ads and X's Promoted Posts; includes display-oriented formats on social networks, even if triggered by search queries
Additional Note: Includes rich media (including in-stream and outstream video ads). Rich media data for 2017-2022 includes in-stream and outstream video ads; data prior to 2017 includes only 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.