How much is spent on advertising worldwide each year?

Money hard Data from 2024

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Answer in dollars. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

$1,000,000,000,000

Roughly $1T.

Global advertising spending has passed $1 trillion a year. Roughly 70% of it now goes to digital, and just three companies — Google, Meta and Amazon — take over half of that digital total.

Where this number comes from

Source GroupM / WARC global advertising forecasts
Figure refers to 2024
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