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WARC has released its 2025 Global Consumer Trends report exploring the key issues that will influence consumer purchase decisions across brands and categories over the next year. Based on a comprehensive set of GWI surveys across 54 markets combined with WARC’s own research, case studies and analysis, the report focuses on five broad trends influencing brand selection: The widening cost-of-living gap, increasing trust in individual creators, AI assistants disrupting the purchase journey, consumers’ proactive approach to health, and the rise of alternative social activities. Stephanie Siew, Senior Research Executive, WARC,…

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Since Reddit’s initial public offering (IPO) last year, the platform has captured the media industry’s attention with its robust high-double-digit advertising revenue growth, pushing ad income to a forecast $1.8bn this year, finds WARC.  Striving to be an “alternative to social media”, Reddit’s conversational and text-oriented engagement style gathers like-minded people, while users’ highly targeted search behaviour enables brands to be discovered organically. AI ad targeting and content licensing agreements are further advancing its upward trajectory.  Celeste Huang, Media Insights Analyst, WARC Media, and author of the report, said: “Reddit’s…

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WARC’s The Future of Programmatic 2025 report, released today, highlights emerging trends in programmatic. Based on insights from both WARC and external research, it provides an overview of the programmatic marketplace, a deep-dive into three specific trends – the rise of sell-side curation, AI-powered brand safety, and the growth of programmatic out-of-home advertising – and includes practical guidance for marketers evolving their programmatic and ad tech capabilities. Paul Stringer, Managing Editor, Research and Insights, WARC, says: “The past few years have been challenging for open web programmatic advertising due to…

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A new study from WARC, the experts in marketing effectiveness, has found that global advertising spend is now on course to grow 6.2% this year to $1.16trn, a downgrade of half a percentage point (pp) from WARC’s March forecast due to growing market volatility. Key sectors such as retail (-6.1%) and automotive (-4.0%) are set to cut ad spend this year, while ad spend growth across technology and CPG brands is muted compared to previous rates. James McDonald, Director of Data, Intelligence & Forecasting, WARC, and author of the research,…

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