IAB Digital Adspend

The official measure of the size of the UK digital advertising market

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Latest full-year report

Digital Adspend 2024

The UK’s digital ad market hit £35.53bn in 2024 - up 13% year-on-year - with video display's growth rocketing by 20%, according to IAB UK's latest Digital Adspend report, conducted with MediaSense. Download the full report now for topline takeaways, formats in detail and sector breakdowns.

The UK’s digital ad market grew at a far faster rate than overall GDP

Read more about the results from this year's findings, including a comment from IAB UK's CEO Jon Mew.

Extra reading

Understanding the market via our Adspend report is an integral part of our work at the IAB. Here are some extra resources to help you dive deeper into the numbers.

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10 key takeaways

After a topline breakdown of 2024's digital ad spend? Check out the key takeaways from this year's report.

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Breakdown by sector

Explore our topline breakdown of 2024's Adspend results with sector specific insights.

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Affiliate marketing

The IAB has worked with its Affiliate members to produce a topline spend report for this market specifically.

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Share of media 2023

Take a look at our snapshot of UK media using IAB / PwC Adspend and AA / WARC data.

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Explore Digital Adspend results

With this tool, IAB UK members have the flexibility to build charts using over 20 years of Adspend data. Compare formats, devices, environments and more across the years to get the data most helpful for you and your clients.

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About Adspend

The annual Adspend research is the official measure of the size of the UK digital advertising market and has been the official figure used by the Advertising Association since 1997. The research is a census of UK media owners and intermediaries and covers desktop, tablet and mobile spend. The full report, plus access to our Adspend Analyser tool, provided for free to IAB UK members, breaks down the data by Category (display, search, classifieds), Format (banners, video, native etc), Environment, and Industry Sector.

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