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.

In 2023, ****** accounted for an estimated **** percent of the total digital advertising revenue generated in the United States and was the largest digital ad publisher in the country. ******** and ****** followed, with **** and **** percent, 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.

In 2022, digital advertising accounted for ** percent of total ad revenue worldwide. The share is expected to grow to ** percent in 2028, reaching ** percent in 2024.

In 2023, Meta Platforms earned over 131 billion U.S. dollars in digital revenue through online advertising. In 2022, search market leader Google generated 224.47 billion U.S. dollars through digital advertising channels.

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 2023, Google's share of digital advertising revenues worldwide was projected to amount to ** percent. Facebook followed with a projected digital ad revenue share of ** percent, while Amazon came in third with an expected ***** percent. The player from Asia with the highest share is TikTok, with ***** percent, followed by *****, ******, as well as *******, all three with *** percent.

In 2023, Google's ad revenue amounted to 264.59 billion U.S. dollars. The company generates advertising revenue through its Google Ads platform, which enables advertisers to display ads, product listings and service offerings across Google’s extensive ad network (properties, partner sites, and apps) to web users. Google advertising Advertising accounts for the majority of Google’s revenue, which amounted to a total of 305.63 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. The majority of Google's advertising revenue comes from search advertising. Google market share These revenue figures come as no surprise, as Google accounts for the majority of the online and mobile search market worldwide. As of September 2023, Google was responsible for more than 84 percent of global desktop search traffic. The company holds a market share of more than 80 percent in a wide range of digital markets, having little to no domestic competition in many of them. China, Russia, and to a certain extent, Japan, are some of the few notable exceptions, where local products are more preferred.

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 2024, 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.

Over the last two observations, the ad spending is forecast to significantly increase in all segments. As part of the positive trend, the indicator achieves the maximum value across all four different segments by the end of the comparison period. Notably, the segment Search Advertising stands out with the highest value of ***** billion U.S. dollars. Find other insights concerning similar markets and segments, such as a comparison of ad spending in the United States and a comparison of average revenue per user (ARPU) in the United States.The Statista Market Insights cover a broad range of additional markets.

The global mobile revenue share of the digital advertising marketwas forecast to continuously increase between 2023 and 2028 by in total six percentage points. After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the indicator is estimated to reach ***** percent and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the ad spending share of the 'Digital Advertising Mobile' segment of the digital advertising market was continuously increasing over the past years.Find more information concerning Europe and the Netherlands. The Statista Market Insights cover a broad range of additional markets.

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 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.

As of 2024, the ad revenue generated by digital media across India was valued at 700 billion Indian rupees. That same year, India’s total advertising revenue was over one trillion Indian rupees and the country was ranked among the largest advertising markets across the world in terms of ad spending. The future is digital The highest share of ad revenue was generated by the Indian television ad market, valued at over 250 billion rupees in fiscal year 2018, followed by the print market. However, the projections for each of these segments show a clear pattern where the digital ad market will rapidly overtake print as well as television revenues by fiscal year 2024. According to these projections, the digital ad revenue in the country will be worth almost 540 billion rupees by fiscal year 2024, while the television and print ad revenues were projected to reach about 455 billion rupees and 276 billion rupees respectively. These numbers clearly show that India is heading towards a digital advertising future. Big bucks for digital advertising The reasons for this surge in India’s digital advertising are clear. Rising penetration of affordable and speedy internet, along with an increase in vernacular content consumption make up the tip of the iceberg. Along with this, big-moneyed industries such as banking, financial services, and insurance are increasingly experimenting with non-traditional media platforms such as YouTube and Instagram stories to connect with users.

In 2023, paid search was the largest online advertising format in Spain, with an estimated expenditure of **** billion euros. In total, digital ad spend in Spain was estimated at **** billion that year.

In 2025, ************* was expected to be the company with fastest-growing digital advertising revenues worldwide, with a projected annual growth rate of ** percent. ****** ranked second, with ** percent. Among the 10 companies presented, four are not U.S.-based: ***********************, ****************************, as well as ****************.

Among the presented countries, the United States ranked first as the largest digital advertising market, with ***** billion U.S. dollars in digital advertising spending and was followed by China (****** billion U.S. dollars). In Norway, the market was estimated at **** billion U.S. dollars, recording a difference of ****** billion U.S. dollars to the United States. Find other insights concerning similar markets and segments, such as a ranking by country regarding average revenue per user (ARPU) in the digital advertising market and a ranking by country regarding ad spending in the digital advertising market.The Statista Market Insights cover a broad range of additional markets.