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Jan 2022 ad spend surpassed Jan 2021 by $1.1bn, growing +19% year-over-year, hitting a new record high for the month (per SMI Core data which goes back to 2017). Digital investment led the push for growth across all channels, attracting the lion's share of incremental dollars. Digital remained the only channel with double-digit quarterly increases vs. the prior year, going back to Q4 2020. Linear TV also contributed to the upward momentum across channels YoY, as Broadcast TV (+19%) offset modest Cable TV decline (-3%).

In this session from the Future of TV Advertising Canada Forum, Darrick Li, Managing Director of Standard Media Index, looks at the driving factors to the ad market rebound in Canada.

Standard Media Index (SMI) estimates that the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic cost the U.S. advertising industry at least $17 billion in money not spent by the biggest advertisers in the market. However, advertising has made a remarkable recovery with growth now nearly in line with spend projections from before the emergence of COVID.

It’s still anyone’s guess how Santa will cope this year with supply-chain breakdowns, pent up consumer demand and the pandemic continuing. But Standard Media Index's forward-bookings data, and the perspective of several industry pundits we interviewed, provide a reason for optimism that advertising is in for a strong 4th quarter. 

SMI will be bringing its solutions to the UK market soon. SMI’s insights into agency bookings reveal how much advertisers are actually paying. Why risk your budget on an estimate? Don’t Estimate. Know.

Six years ago, Joe Mandese, the editor in chief of MediaPost approached Standard Media Index about creating a true index of ad industry market health, akin to the Dow Jones Index. We thought it was a great idea, and we have published the SMI U.S. Ad Maret Tracker ever since.

In this session from the Future of TV Advertising Canada Forum, Darrick Li, Managing Director of Standard Media Index, looks at the driving factors to the ad market rebound in Canada.

In this session from the Future of TV Advertising Forum, Ben Tatta, President of Standard Media Index, looks at the business side behind the explosion of AVOD services. SMI reports the actual investment trends for ad-supported services, including the CPMs they are commanding.

The global COVID pandemic has delivered the largest decline in ad spend yet seen in key advertising markets, with national ad spend in the Anglo Markets decreasing by 8% in 2020. However, our data also shows that while the decline in ad spend has been at a record level, the market recovery is well underway with these markets reporting combined growth of +5% in the final quarter.

In an increasingly fragmented video landscape, the NFL continues to be a juggernaut that generates billions of dollars in ad revenue for their cable and broadcast partners each year.

The global COVID pandemic has delivered the largest decline in ad spend yet seen in key advertising markets, with national ad spend in the Anglo Markets decreasing by 8% in 2020. However, our data also shows that while the decline in ad spend has been at a record level, the market recovery is well underway with these markets reporting combined growth of +5% in the final quarter.

After a dismal second quarter 2020, the national ad marketplace ended with a strong fourth quarter. SMI reported no category was stronger in the final quarter than Consumer Packaged Goods, with year-over-year ad spend growth of +34%, the most of any vertical. For calendar year 2020, CPG ad spend grew +10%, compared to -7% for the entire ad market.