U.S. Ad Recovery Continues To Soar, Surges 52% In April

In the second month to report an explicit year-over-year comparison impacted by the COVID-19 ad recession, the U.S. advertising marketplace surged 52% over April 2020, another strong indicator that the ad recovery is sustainable.

The month, however, still has not caught up with April 2019, which was the best April …

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  1. John Grono from GAP Research, May 21, 2021 at 3:24 a.m.

    I wonder how many people read this chart as the April market this year is way higher than last year.   52% up is WAYYYY bigger than 35% down.   Party like there is no tomorrow!

    But hold on.

    Let's say that April 2020 was 100 widgets.   (The actual number doesn't matter, so that's why I chose 100).

    If April 2020 was -35% then April 2019 must have been 154 widgets (100/154 = 65% ... or -35%.)

    Now April 2021 was +52% on April 2020, meaning April 2021 was 152 widgets.   It's NEARLY caught up to 2 years ago with the 154 widgets of 2020.   Put another way, it's around 1.3% lower than two years ago.

    Yep, it's a great improvement but not as much as the graph would seem to (unintentionally) impute.

  2. Joe Mandese from MediaPost Inc., May 21, 2021 at 12:39 p.m.

    @John Grono: Which is why we put a chart in below it showing April 2019-2021. And why we have the dynamic U.S. Ad Market Tracker database for anyone to click through and anayze themselves.

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