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Analyses the results of a global WARC survey of senior strategists.

The latest AA/WARC survey data shows that UK ad spend rose 13.5% during the first half of 2024, to a total of £19.6bn. As with the first quarter, the largest online formats – namely search (+12.7%) ...

WARC’s Evolution of Marketing programme is the leading source of insight into the changing face of marketing: tracking, analysing and evaluating emerging technologies, media, social influences and ...

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The global retail media ad investment is set to reach $153.3bn, a nearly-$18bn jump from the 2023 total, according to WARC’s latest forecast. The forecast puts the annual growth rate at 13.7% in 2024, ...

Global retail media ad spend is forecast to grow 10.1% to $122bn in 2023, having achieved double-digit growth every year since 2014. It is expected to be the fastest-growing channel this year and next ...

Part of WARC’s Evolution of Marketing programme, The Future of Media highlights trends in media planning, advertising investments and the media ecosystem. Media diversity provides new opportunities ...

In its briefing note last month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that global economic activity had contracted in the second quarter of 2022 and, as a consequence, it had reduced its ...

This paper, created in collaboration with TikTok, illustrates how brands can achieve positive business effects from focusing on relevance and provides a framework for creating content and ads that are ...

The last five years have seen the proportion of informative or educational strategies overtake that of emotional strategies; the dominance of purpose-led marketing over the same period may be a ...