In 2022, global internet advertising revenue stood at *** billion U.S. dollars. The source projected the revenue would increase to *** billion by 2027. Internet advertising in the U.S. – additional informationInternet or online advertising encompasses a range of formats including email, search engine, social media, display and mobile advertising. Display advertising uses pictures, videos, text and graphics to target consumers and ads are usually matched with potential consumers through the use of cookies.The leading internet display advertisers in the United States in 2014, were ranked regarding their measured advertising spending. The resulting list, which only took into account spending on digital display advertising, saw Comcast ranked first. The American mass media company, founded in Mississippi in 1963, spent ***** million U.S. dollars on online display advertising in 2014. The runner up to Comcast was the Texas based telecommunications company AT&T with a spending of *** million U.S. dollars.The investments made in online advertising have grown substantially in the recent past. The revenue generated by online advertising in the U.S. has been recorded from the first quarter in 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2015. In the first quarter of 2007, online spending revenue amounted to *** billion U.S. dollars. By the fourth quarter of 2013, this figure had risen to ***** billion U.S. dollars, growing further to ***** billion dollars in the fourth quarter of 2015.A breakdown of the online advertising revenue in the U.S. in 2015, by type reveals which forms of internet advertising was most invested in, and perhaps deemed the most useful to a company operating online. It was revealed that search advertising, which increases a website or company’s visibility on search engine result pages, held the largest share of online advertising with ** percent. Banner and mobile advertising rounded off the top three.

Online advertising revenue in the United States grew by 15 percent in 2024 compared to 2023, from 225 billion to 259 billion U.S. dollars. The figure first surpassed 100 billion dollars in 2018 and 200 billion in 2022, owing to the emergence of new channels and formats including digital audio (podcasts and streaming) and digital video (streaming and CTV) as well as strong growth from retail media. Online advertising at a glance Search is the dominating internet advertising format in the United States, accounting for 40 percent of the country's digital advertising revenue. Display follows, accounting for 29 percent of ad revenue, while 24 percent is attributed to digital video ads. However, it is spending on two specific types of platforms that is booming. Social media, with Instagram and TikTok, and retail media, with Amazon and Walmart, harvest the fruit of winning users’ attention. Consumer attitudes to online ads Consumers most often come across online ads on social media and in video content (both on streaming services such as Netflix or Amazon Prime and on video portals, such as YouTube). However, they believe that they were most receptive to ads while shopping online and consuming news content. What internet users did not appreciate at all, were ads based on their browsing history and on their social media behavior, which they considered the most invasive.

In 2025, Alphabet was expected to be the company with the highest digital advertising revenue worldwide, at *** billion U.S. dollars. Alphabet owns Google and YouTube, whose digital ad revenues were projected to amount to *** and ** billion dollars, respectively. Meta - the owner of Facebook and Instagram - ranked second, with revenues of *** billion dollars.

The timeline presents the internet advertising revenue in Nigeria from 2011 to 2018, with a forecast until 2023. According to the calculations, total internet advertising revenue in Nigeria will grow from ** million U.S. dollars in 2018 to *** million in 2023.

Internet advertising revenue in Nigeria – additional information

Thanks to advances in technology and the increasing popularity of the internet, online advertising, which includes a range of ad formats such as email, search engine, social media, display and mobile advertising, is a promising medium for advertisers. Global digital advertising expenditure was projected to increase from an estimate of *** billion U.S. dollars in 2016 to just over *** billion by 2020. Spending on internet advertising was estimated to end 2017 with the second highest year-over-year growth in advertising spending in comparison to other mediums – ** percent.

In line with this global trend, internet advertising revenue in Nigeria has shown significant improvement in the last years, and is projected to continue to rise. The online ad market in Nigeria has seen an unprecedented growth between 2015 and 2018, as revenue growth of this medium ranged between ** percent and ** percent during that time period. The growth rate is projected to slow down in the coming years though. By 2023, online advertising in Nigeria is forecast to generate *** million U.S. dollars in revenue. Although wired or desktop devices still account for the majority of the revenue generated by online advertising in Nigeria, mobile is projected to take over as the most profitable device for internet advertisers in the country as of 2021. Online ad revenue of this particular type of device is forecasted to jump from an estimate of ** million U.S. dollars in 2018 to ** million U.S. dollars by 2023.

In 2024, roughly 40 percent of online ad revenue in the United States was generated through search advertising. Slightly less than one in three dollars came from digital static display ads that year. Digital advertising in the United States In 2024, online advertising in the United States generated a total revenue of about 260 billion U.S. dollars. U.S. internet ad revenue has been increasing steadily since 2009 and in the last measured year by about 15 percent compared to 2023. Search was the most invested-in digital ad format, commanding 40 percent of the market, followed by display with 30 percent, and video with 24 percent. Audio was the digital ad format with the smallest market share and the slowest growth in 2024. Mobile's king Roughly two in three dollars generated by digital advertising in 2024 came from mobile ads. The share generated by mobile has been increasing annually for the last decade, as has the share of digital in total advertising spending. Among formats of mobile ads, search is also the leader, followed by video and banner ads.

In 2020, when markets were experiencing repercussion of the COVID-19 pandemic, internet advertising spending in the United States increased by over ** percent, to reach *** billion U.S. In the presented period, the expenditure is expected to grow at the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of *** percent and reach the *** billion threshold in 2025.

Online content marketing In 2020, content marketing was believed to be the single most effective digital marketing technique. Approximately ** percent of marketers worldwide considered this to be the activity that tends to make the largest commercial impact. Other effective techniques on the list included AI and machine learning, social media marketing, and search engine optimization (or SEO).
Influence of ad placement Where ads are placed online can have an impact on how consumers perceive a brand. In the second quarter of 2020, ** percent of surveyed internet users believed that displaying ads around relevant online content would not influence their perception of the brand. However, about ** percent of users stated that it would have a positive effect. Only **** percent of respondents reported it would have a negative impact.

China has become the second largest market for internet advertising. In 2021, its internet ad spending was estimated to surpass 100 billion U.S. dollars. The figure was expected to increase by an annual compound growth rate of **** percent until 2026.

In 2024, Meta Platforms earned over 160 billion U.S. dollars in digital revenue through online advertising. In the same year, search market leader Google generated almost 265 billion dollars through digital advertising channels.

In 2022, the share of world's largest walled gardens - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Baidu, Facebook, JD.com, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Pinterest, Snapchat, Spotify, Tencent, TikTok, and X (Twitter) - in global digital advertising revenue was estimated at ** percent, leaving ***percent for the so-called open internet. By 2027, the big players are projected to account for ** percent of the digital ad revenue.

In 2023, internet advertising revenue in Canada reached nearly ** billion Canadian dollars, of which approximately *** billion came from search ads alone. Social media and video rounded up the top three digital formats with revenues of **** billion and **** billion Canadian dollars, respectively.

In 2024, digital pure players (companies that operate primarily online, such as Google or Amazon) generated an advertising revenue of *** billion U.S. dollars worldwide. In 2025, their ad revenue is forecast to amount to *** billion dollars.

For some Chinese internet giants, online advertising and marketing is their major revenue source. In 2024, the X-like platform Weibo reported that ** percent of its annual revenue came from the online ad business. In comparison, the figure for e-commerce giant Alibaba stood at ** percent while the social media and gaming titan Tencent generated only ** percent of its revenue from online ads.

Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu are the major digital ad publishers in China. In 2021, the net digital ad revenue of the e-commerce tycoon Alibaba was estimated to be ** billion U.S. dollars. The delivery giant Meituan would register the highest year-on-year growth rate at **** percent in digital ad revenue among all ad platforms.

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In 2023, around *** trillion South Korean won were spent on internet advertising seen on computers. This represents a slight increase from the previous year. Spending was forecast to increase over the next two years. Spending on online advertisements has simultaneously been growing, and has shown no signs of slowing down. In 2023, most of this spending was for mobile ads. YouTube’s advertising dominance YouTube dominates the online advertising space in South Korea, with a potential advertising reach of around ** million people as of January 2024, far surpassing other social media platforms. This was followed by Instagram, showing a trend favoring video and image-based social media platforms over more traditionally text-based ones. While the preference for YouTube and Instagram is reflected in spending on online video ads, such types of ads came second in terms of overall spending on different online ad formats. The rise of influencer advertising A 2023 survey found that over ** percent of respondents had purchased influencer-endorsed products, with YouTubers being the most common type of influencer people bought products from. This further aligns with the platform’s overall success as a social media marketing medium. While spending on influencer advertising was low overall in South Korea, the fact that entertainment value was the main driver for clicking on social media ads in 2023 is a useful foundation for the potential expansion of the influencer sector.

In 2023, online advertising spending in Germany stood at roughly ** billion euros. Between 2024 and 2028, the spending is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of ***** percent and reach ** billion euros at the end of this period.

Internet advertising was projected to be the medium with the largest share of advertising revenue in the United States in 2022, with ** percent. Newspapers and magazines were projected to account for roughly *** and *** percent, respectively. Advertising spending in the United States – additional information The U.S. is the largest advertising market worldwide. In 2021, advertising spending in the U.S. amounted to *** billion U.S. dollars. Second-ranked China spent roughly ** billion U.S. dollars in advertising that year, a significantly smaller share in comparison to the U.S.Television remains the leading traditional medium in the U.S. About ** billion U.S. dollars were invested in television advertising in the U.S. in 2021. In 2022, TV was expected to account for ** percent of all advertising revenue in the country. Up until recently TV was the main medium overall, however, digital has seen unprecedented growth in the last few years and took the lead ahead of television. Digital advertising spending in the U.S. is estimated to increase from about *** billion U.S. dollars in 2021 to just over *** billion by 2026. Digital search is one of the main formats of digital advertising in the U.S., accounting for roughly ** percent of the U.S. ad expenditure in 2021. Another key trend is the rise of mobile platforms in the advertising industry in the U.S. Mobile investments are projected to increase in the coming years while desktop will see declines at the same time.

In 2022, mobile advertising revenue in the United States was expected to grow by **** percent compared to 2021, while total digital media was projected to grow by **** percent.

Digital ad spending

The United States was projected to spend *** billion U.S. dollars on advertising in 2021. With each consecutive year, this amount was expected to grow, before reaching an estimated *** billion U.S. dollars in 2024. The fastest-growing medium – digital – was projected to reach a ** percent-share by 2022.

Views on online advertising

Many internet users find ads on websites annoying. Between 2021 and 2022, about ** percent of American internet users aged between 18 and 64 held a negative viewpoint towards them. Specifically, internet users felt more agitated by advertising in online video clips, compared to ads on websites in the second quarter of 2020. Roughly six out of 10 respondents said they disliked seeing ads in online videos, compared to ** percent who said the same about ads on webpages.

In 2025, media owners' global advertising revenue will amount to an estimated *** trillion U.S. dollars, up from approximately **** trillion dollars a year earlier – an annual growth of *** percent. The figure was projected to continue to expand, reaching nearly *** trillion dollars by 2029. The world's largest ad markets According to another source, the United States and Canada collectively account for most of the global ad spend, followed by the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa lag far behind: In 2024, these four regions' ad expenditures combined barely surpassed ************** of APAC's. On a country level, the U.S., China, and the United Kingdom were the world's leading markets by estimated ad spend in 2024. Japan, Germany, and Canada rounded up the top six. The relevance of online advertising Most of the global ad revenues have come from the internet, which continues to boost the industry's total gains year after year. It was projected that, in 2024, digital's share in the world's ad spend would surpass ********** in almost all regions, except for Latin America. The performance of emerging online ad economies will likely push this concentration. A source estimated that Peru, Argentina, Chile, India, and Colombia ranked among the fastest-growing digital ad markets in 2023, with estimated increase rates of at least ** percent.

In 2025, Google was forecast to generate ***** billion U.S. dollars in global online advertising revenue, securing the tech giant's top spot among leading digital ad sellers worldwide. This was followed by Meta with an ad revenue of ***** billion U.S. dollars, while Amazon clinched bronze with a revenue of ** billion.