
Advertising and marketing spending combined will outpace all of the ad industry’s
conventional forecast growth by a percentage point this year and a point-and-a-half next year, according to an annual report being released today by industry economists PQ Media.
Combined worldwide advertising and marketing spending will rise 4.9% this year and 5.9% in 2020, according to PQ’s Global Advertising & Marketing Revenue Forecast 2019-23
report.
That beats a consensus of Madison Avenue’s leading forecasters' most recent estimates (see below) for 2019 global ad-spending growth of 3.9% by a full percentage point,
and their 2020 consensus growth of 4.4% by a point-and-a-half.
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The estimates suggest that other marketing expenditures are expanding at a faster rate than conventional
advertising.
The PQ Media analysis includes more than 100 digital and traditional media platforms and channels in every major media market worldwide, and factors marketing channels
likely not included by traditional Madison Avenue forecasters, such as the non-advertising components of direct marketing, promotion and public relations.
It also includes
experiential marketing, which represents the most substantial category in the report, generating an estimated $115.4 billion in 2018.
Search advertising remained the largest digital
advertising channel, totaling $52.8 billion.
While most mobile media channels are among the fastest-growing categories, the PQ Media report notes that “some major brands are
reevaluating their digital media investments due to various strategic challenges, questionable tactics and privacy issues that have emerged in recent years.”
Explains PQ Media
President Patrick Quinn: “While digital & alternative media operates in a complex ecosystem that includes alarming fraud levels, shifting social media algorithms and disorderly measurement
systems, brand marketers will continue to invest in media strategies and tactics that can prove engagement with elusive non-Boomer target audiences.”
Global Spending By Marketing Silo:

U.S. Spending By Marketing Silo:
