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Learn More →US Search Ad Spending Benchmarks: Q4 2025
Forecast and Insights for Search
Ad Spending Benchmarks: Q4 2025
Forecasts and Insights for Total Media, Digital, Search, Retail Media, TV and CTV, and Social Network Ad Spending in the US
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About This Report
This benchmark covers how ad buyers can calibrate their search ad spending and budget allocations against the market, and how publishers and solution providers can assess whether their ad revenues align with industry trends.
Welcome to our latest edition of “Ad Spending Benchmarks.” This series provides marketers with critical data to help them benchmark their budget allocations against the market. In this deck—one of six in the series—we cover our latest forecasts for search ad spending.
This deck covers:
- An overview of our search ad spending forecasts for Q4 2025
This deck can help you:
- Allocate budget for campaigns, develop media strategy (brands)
- Showcase opportunities to customers (media platforms, solution providers)
- Benchmark marketing performance (media platforms)
authors
Yoram Wurmser
Contributors
- Rahul Chadha
- Director, Report Editing
- Kyndall Krist
- Senior Copy Editor
- Penelope Lin
- Director, Data Visualization
- Emma Noyes
- Graphic Designer, Data Visualization
- Andrew Spink
- Senior Forecasting Analyst
- Matt Torpey
- Senior Chart Editor
- Max Willens
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