UK Ad Spending Benchmarks: H1 2026

Forecasts and Insights for Total Media, Digital, Search, Display, Retail Media, CTV, Social Network, and Programmatic Ad Spending

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About This Report
This is the third installment of our biannual “UK Ad Spending Benchmarks” series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.

This is our H1 2026 “UK Ad Spending Benchmarks.” In each edition of this series, we look at the latest forecasts for total media ad spending and digital ad spending by format, device, and channel. This report collection also includes a deck dedicated to programmatic. Each deck in this series gives marketers the data they need to benchmark their own spending.

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Bill Fisher

Contributors

Rahul Chadha
Director, Report Editing
Emma Noyes
Senior Graphic Designer, Data Visualization
Juan Perl
Matt Torpey
Senior Data Visualization Editor
Jherr Daven Velasco
Data Visualization Editor
Max Willens
Yoram Wurmser
Principal Analyst
Ali Young
Senior Copy Editor and Manager of Content Operations
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