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Expenditure Report Q1 2024

The most trusted source of ad spend data.

  • Covers all major media and ad formats
  • Includes ad spend by product category
  • Quarterly data back to 1982 and projections for the next two years
  • Data available in Excel format, via bespoke database queries or more than 150 standard tables


Key findings from the Q1 2024 report include:

  • The latest AA/WARC survey data 
    shows that UK ad spend rose 9.3% 
    during the first three months of 2024, 
    to a total of £9.2bn. 
  • At a category level, Nielsen data 
    shows that just two major sectors 
    lifted display spend during Q1 2024.
  • While the largest online formats – 
    namely search (+12.0%) and social 
    media (+23.8%) – led growth during 
    the quarter, legacy media also posted 
    positive results.
  • The latest AA/WARC forecasts now 
    expect a rise of 9.2% in Q2 2024 
    (previously +6.4%) to reach £9.7bn.
  • We have uprated our full-year 
    forecast for 2024 by 1.9 percentage 
    points (pp) to a projected 7.7% rise 
    following this strong first half 
    performance. 

 

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