The MAGNA forecast released in mid-June projects that global ad spend will increase 5.4 percent in 2016. This will be the strongest rise in six years, and the US market should grow even higher at a rate of +6.2 percent.
The biggest contributors to the higher 2016 growth forecast are the US (+6.2 percent) and China (+8.4 percent). The biggest downward revision comes from Brazil (from +5.0 percent to +1.9 percent).
2016’s major events (US elections, UEFA Euro 2016, Olympic Games, Copa America) will boost ad spending. Neutralizing the impact of those cyclical events, ad sales would still grow by +4 percent.
Global Ad Growth by Medium 2016-2017:
Source: MAGNA
US Media Owners Advertising Growth 2016-2017:
MAGNA’s +5.4 percent prediction for global growth in 2016 is the result of digital media advertising sales growing +15 percent while traditional media advertising sales will be flat (+1 percent). The only traditional media categories to see increasing advertising sales will be television (+4.4 percent at $179 billion) and OOH (+3.8 percent at $31 billion).
Radio will be flat (-0.2 percent at $32 billion) and print media advertising revenues will continue their long-term decline (-8 percent to $70 billion) caused by audience erosion.
According to MAGNA’s report, digital media will account for half of the world’s ad sales by 2020 and grow by a CAGR of +12 percent through 2020, surpassing TV and becoming the largest advertising category in 2017.
Mobile continues as the main driver of digital advertising, and mobile advertising revenues will further increase by +42 percent in 2016 to reach 42 percent of total digital advertising sales. With 2017 growth of +30 percent, mobile will approach half of total digital advertising budgets.
Much of the growth in digital media spending has come from the growth of programmatic spend. In 2015, programmatic transactions represented 31 percent of total banner display and video advertising sales, but by 2019 the growth of programmatic in video, especially, will push total penetration to 50 percent. Search and social are already essentially 100 percent programmatic.
The opportunity for advertisers and agencies to leverage consumer data and behavioral data in branding campaigns to achieve improved targeting and efficiency, is making display and video formats more attractive to some mainstream categories such as automotive, finance and CPG (consumer packaged goods)/FMCG (fast moving consumer goods), and thus contribute to the overall growth of digital media spend.
Paid Search remains the largest portion of digital advertising budgets, representing nearly half of total digital spend. In 2016, it will again provide the largest total dollar increase year-over-year across all digital formats (nearly $10 billion globally).
Global Ad Revenue Market Shares by Medium (2013 – 2019):
Source: MAGNA
In the US, MAGNA’s report highlighted OOH’s organic growth of digital panels providing better yield, more flexible placement opportunities, and better audience measurement as innovations that allow OOH to tap into branding budgets and TV budgets in a more significant way than ever before. They project OOH growth in 2016 of +3.2 percent, and another increase for the industry in 2017 of +2.7 percent.
Key Factors Driving Global OOH Growth:
• A growing digital OOH ad market, growing mobile audience, rising display market, increasing urbanization and fragmentation of all major media demand is driving the OOH ad market at a solid pace.
• Emerging countries represent strong opportunities for OOH because standards of living are rising and consumers have more disposable income than ever before.
OOH Share of Total Ad Spend 2015:
Source: MAGNA
Top 10 OOH Countries by OOH Ad Revenue (2015)
The US remains the top OOH country in revenue, and ranks 10th among the ten largest OOH revenue countries in media share.
Source: MAGNA
OOH – Key Global Insights at a Glance:
1. Infrastructure investment will drive global OOH advertising growth. Global total OOH advertising revenue is set to grow at a 4.6% CAGR to reach $45.37 billion in 2019. The key growth driver will be infrastructure investment creating increased and improved OOH advertising space.
2. Digital OOH (DOOH) revenue will replace physical OOH revenue in countries with mature OOH markets. DOOH advertising revenue will grow strongly to reach $18.04 billion in 2019.
3. Major cities will be the most lucrative markets for DOOH advertising. With the cost of upgrading to digital formats high, DOOH advertising will be concentrated in large cities, with the most urbanized markets seeing the highest digital penetration.
4. Interactivity with consumers will become a key part of OOH advertising. By 2019, there will be 3.85 billion smartphone connections and 1.46 billion tablet active devices worldwide. This growth, combined with that of DOOH advertising, will offer opportunities to interact with these devices, increasingly including technologies such as near-field communications (NFC), allowing advertisements to act as points of sale.
5. OOH is the “traditional” advertising medium benefitting most from digitization. By converting panels to digital, providers can vastly increase their revenue by displaying multiple ads of higher quality in the same space. This process will drive an impressive CAGR of 13.2% in DOOH advertising revenue.
Global Growth in Ad Spend by Medium 2015-2018 (US$ million)
Source: ZenithOptimedia
Global Media Advertising Revenues (2015 – 2017)
