Asia-Pacific Surges, Latin America Rebounds. After struggling with a 16.3% contraction in total media ad spending last year, the ad market in India will boom this year, and maintain double-digit growth rates out to 2025.

In 2020, China was the only major economy to produce economic growth. It’s not surprising, then, that it was also the only major national market to see an increase in total media ad spending. Girded by this economic strength, China’s digital ad market hardly missed a beat.

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The year 2021 marks a new era for retail and ecommerce. The pandemic drove a massive shift in almost everything digital, and while 2020 will remain an anomaly in terms of the frenzied pace of adoption, consumers’ new behavior is here to stay. Over the next five years, digital activities will continue growing from today’s accelerated base.

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Asia-Pacific: 1.20 billion MAUs, up by 15.5% YoY and up 33 million from Q3. Rest of World: 921 million MAUs, up by 12.7% YoY and up 15 million from Q3. Facebook also reported that it closed Q4 2020 with 3.30 billion monthly active people (MAP) across its family of apps, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. That was up 14% YoY.