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GroupM revises media spend growth down from 7% to 4% due to a slow down in TV ad sales

on Jun 22, 2017 | 0 comments

By Laurie Fullerton

GroupM forecasted distribution of advertising investment growth across media formats

GroupM claims the UK advertising market is set to see its eighth successive year of growth in 2017 when total spend will hit £18.6bn, although the WPP-owned media investment arm has downplayed its earlier growth forecast from 7% to 4.1%.

The GroupM report released today (June 22) notes that amid the UK’s fast-growing media markets, TV investment is down; instead of an earlier forecast to remain flat in 2017, this figure has in fact been revised down by 3%.

A contributing factor to the overall modest growth prediction is GroupM’s conservative outlook on “pure-play” internet which Read full story ›

Source: The Drum