WARC Talks: 3 in 15 – Big Tech ad spend

In this episode of the WARC Podcast, WARC’s Alex Brownsell, Head of Content for WARC Media, discusses Big Tech ad spend and growth rates, the spend by retail platforms growing faster than media and the trends in ad spend as a percentage of total sales.

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01:10 – How have we defined Big Tech? 03:17 – These eight companies account for 6% of ad spend globally. 04:31 – What does that ad spend growth rate look like compared to other categories? 05:24 – How are they spending this money? 06:55 – Amazon and Alibaba’s spend is growing faster than the rest. 11:27 – Ad spend as a percentage of total sales is plateauing. 12:06 – Amazon’s revenue and ad spend breakdown.13:31 –...

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