Source: eMarketer, March 2023 - May 2023
Note: All years converted to US dollars using average 2022 exchange rates; includes advertising that appears on desktop and laptop computers as well as mobile phones, tablets, and other internet-connected devices, and includes all the various formats of advertising on those platforms Additional Note: Digital ad spending includes banner ads and other (static display ads such as Facebook's News Feed Ads and Twitter's Promoted Tweets), classified ads, email (embedded ads only), mobile messaging (SMS, MMS, and P2P messaging), rich media (including in-stream video ads), search ads (including contextual text links, paid inclusion, paid listings, and SEO), sponsorships, and lead generation (referrals). eMarketer benchmarks its Canada digital ad spending figures against data from IAB Canada, for which the last full year measured was 2021.
Methodology: Estimates are based on the analysis of various elements related to the ad spending market, including macro-level economic conditions, historical trends of the advertising market, historical trends of each medium in relation to other media, reported revenues from major ad publishers, estimates from other research firms, data from benchmark sources, consumer media consumption trends, consumer device usage trends, and eMarketer interviews with executives at ad agencies, brands, media publishers, and other industry leaders.