‘Global TV ad spend share has peaked’

Television’s share of the global advertising market has peaked in 2014 as brands start to move an increasing amount of their media budgets to online video, according ZenithOptimedia’s end-of-year forecast.

Although TV is still a dominant force in advertising, currently accounting for 39.6% of total spend this will fall back to 37.4% in 2017. However, TV adspend is still expected to grow by an average of 3% a year between 2014 and 2017.

Online video will account for 2.8% of global ad spend by 2017, from the current 1.9% in 2014.

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According to the report, the UK is expected to become the fourth highest advertising market, overtaking Germany and surpassed only by the US, China and Japan. UK advertisers are expected to spend $26.4m by 2017, up from £22.5m in 2014.

UK ad spend grew by 5.1% in 2013 and is expected to grow by 8.0% in 2014. There will be another surge of growth by 7.9% in 2015.

In a separate report last week, Group M reported that growth in digital advertising spend is accelerating faster in the UK than any other country with brands expected to spend more than half of their budget by 2015. The shift has been attributed to the nation’s healthy engagement with social media, technology and online shopping.

Brands have been investing in Facebook and Google, who are expected to be accountable for 50% of the UK’s digital adspend budget, according to eMarketing. Google’s share of digital ad spend is expected to reach 41% in 2015 while Facebook will reach just under 10%.

ZenithOptimedia’s report collates the data of adspend for a medium of 80 countries and predicts a growth in advertising worldwide for the next three years.UKadspend

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