WARC Media
Supercharge your media strategy and media investment with unrivalled datasets and forecasts
WARC’s unparalleled expertise and 40-year track record in harmonising, aggregating, verifying and evaluating data, helps you optimise your media effectiveness and drive impact.
With our interactive dashboard, quarterly data, and AI-powered forecasts – backed by over 100 trusted partners – we make sure you get the most from your media investment, and help you build media strategies that are proven to deliver.
Check out some of our Media content
Interactive data
Visualize, filter and export verified media data and forecasts on the fly with our innovative, easy to use visualisations.
Query all data on the platform in a single place, in an easy-to-use chart builder format.
Data points
Thousands of articles on media spend, cost and consumption, across categories and countries. Refreshed daily. Download ready-to-use charts and data tables ready to super power your presentations and analysis.
In-depth reports and surveys
In-depth insights from WARC Media’s exclusive reports. These include the Global Ad Trends series, drawn from WARC’s advertising and media data, and Big Picture channel intelligence reports.
Investment Benchmarks
Benchmark against WARC’s database of successful case studies and thousands of ready-to-use data points on media spend, costs and consumption. Compare across 100 advertisers, 19 categories, and all major publishers and formats.
Advertisers
Marketing spend among leading global advertisers.
Ad/Sales ratio
Advertising spend as a share of sales revenue across key product sensors.
Ad Formats
Investment forecast at the media and format level across 100 markets.
Media Costs
CPMs and inflation forecasts across key media and target audiences.
Media Owners
Ad revenue, costs and performance metrics for key media owners.
Product Categories
Net advertising spend and forecasts across 19 product sectors.
HAVE methodology
We harmonise, aggregate, verify and evaluate data from over 100 reputable partners to offer independent and trusted information all in one place.
Harmonise
We harmonise all data to enable simple, like-for-like cross market comparison without compromising on quality.
Aggregate
We aggregate data from our international partners and media owners, either directly or through our long-standing connections with industry bodies.
Verify
We verify all data with the source prior to publication and offer detailed supporting documentation for each figure.
Evaluate
We evaluate the data and provide expert analysis drawn from 40+ years of experience, offering a holistic view of market dynamics.
Advertising Association | WARC Expenditure Report
The most trusted source of adspend data
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Who we work with
To ensure you always have the most rigorous data, our sources are always of the highest calibre. Here is a selection of just some of the organisations we work with.
“Our main job as a global trade association is to create value for our 170 members in almost 50 countries every day. WARC Media offers incredible data which allows us to easily benchmark and compare ad spend, media cost and consumption across markets.
Our research and insights team uses WARC Media on a weekly basis.”
Anders Rune
Head of TV Research, EGTA
