Adstats: Food advertising

This overview of ad spend in the food sector, uses data from Nielsen Global AdView Pulse. Charts include food adspend by product category and the growth in ad spend by region.

Adstats: Food advertising

Food brands accounted for $38 billion of global ad spend in 2011, a rise of 3.3% from 2010, according to Nielsen.

A full PowerPoint presentation of these charts can be downloaded here or click below links for individual slides.

  • Food ad spend by product category
  • FMCG adspend by product category
  • Growth in ad spend by region
  • Growth in food ad spend by category
  • Share of food ad spend by medium and market
  • TV ad spend by food product category
  • Growth in food and FMCG ad spend by medium

Key points include:

  • Expenditure levels rose fastest...

Not a subscriber?

Schedule your live demo with our team today

WARC helps you to plan, create and deliver more effective marketing

  • Prove your case and back-up your idea

  • Get expert guidance on strategic challenges

  • Tackle current and emerging marketing themes

We’re long-term subscribers to WARC and it’s a tool we use extensively. We use it to source case studies and best practice for the purposes of internal training, as well as for putting persuasive cases to clients. In compiling a recent case for long-term, sustained investment in brand, we were able to support key marketing principles with numerous case studies sourced from WARC. It helped bring what could have been a relatively dry deck to life with recognisable brand successes from across a broad number of categories. It’s incredibly efficient to have such a wealth of insight in one place.

Insights Team
Bray Leino

You’re in good company

We work with 80% of Forbes' most valuable brands* and 80% of the world's top top-of-the-class agencies.

* Top 10 brands