Source: EMARKETER Forecast, March 2025 - December 2024
Note: includes advertising that appears on desktop and laptop computers as well as mobile phones, tablets, and other internet-connected devices; 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
Additional Note: 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.