Search and mobile display were the only media to gain share of UK adspend last year

Shows the shifts in media share of total UK advertising expenditure between 2008-2017.

Search is now the largest advertising medium in the UK, having overtaken TV for the first time in 2017, according to data from the AA/WARC Expenditure Report. Search accounted for 28.5% of all UK adspend last year, up from a share of 25.7% in 2016 and 13.1% in 2008. TV follows with a share of 24.0%, down 2.1 percentage points (pp) from 201 and 3.7pp from 2008. Together, search and TV attract over half (52.4%) the UK’s total annual advertising budget.

The next biggest channels, mobile display (12.7%) and desktop display (8.1%), up 3.0pp and down 0.8pp respectively in...

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