Consumer Spending On Media Soared, While Ad Spending Collapsed in 2020 (mediapost.com)

As far as the media marketplace goes, 2020 was a tale of two economies. While advertising and marketing spending experienced one of its worst years after — decline 7.1% in the U.S. and 6.8% worldwide — consumer spending on media actually soared, rising 5.6% and 6.1%, respectively.

That’s the finding of a MediaPost analysis of two reports released by media industry economists PQ Media, including today’s “Consumer Spending On Media” report, and November 2020’s Advertising & Marketing Spending Forecast.

While the comparisons are not exactly apples-to-oranges, because of the ways PQ categories consumer media, they offer some directional insights on where the economic engines of the media industry are last year, now and for the years ahead.
more at source: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/361001/consumer-spending-on-media-soared-while-ad-spendi.html

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