AI Overviews are now part of the search experience, but some early research suggests that they are a big problem for publishers reliant on traffic from search engines, as that click-through from ...

WARC Media forecasts that global podcast ad spend will exceed $5bn in 2025, reaching $5.5bn in 2026; however, year-on-year growth is set to slow from 13.2% in 2024 to 7.9% in 2025, and only 6.5% in ...

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As outlined in WARC Media’s latest Platform Insights report, Spotify claims to have seen a 44% year-on-year increase in video streams over the last 18 months, with a growing number of users watching ...

The latest AA/WARC survey data shows that UK ad spend increased 9.7% during Q3 2024, to a total of £10.6bn. When viewed at a category level, Nielsen data shows that only two major sectors increased ...

Sean Sands, Carla Ferraro, Vlad Demsar, Justin Cohen, and Andrés Gvirtz We’re long-term subscribers to WARC and it’s a tool we use extensively. We use it to source case studies and best practice for ...

We’re long-term subscribers to WARC and it’s a tool we use extensively. We use it to source case studies and best practice for the purposes of internal training, as well as for putting persuasive ...

Global social spend is set to total $247.3bn in 2024, up 14.3% year on year, ahead of paid search. Both Facebook and Instagram grew by more than 20% year on year in Q1 2024, and Meta is forecast to ...

When it comes to developing highly effective marketing, WARC is the most trusted source of insight and inspiration for world leading brands, agencies, media owners and academic institutions. With our ...

The WARC Spotlight India series focuses on a timely industry topic facing brands in the market. It comprises a capsule collection of commentary, tackling the topic from a range of angles. Contributors ...

Launched in 2007, the World Retail Awards have been recognising the very best retailers and retail initiatives across a range of categories for over 10 years. The most recent Awards were announced in ...

A Q4 update of WARC's latest advertising spend forecasts by medium, product sector and media owner in 100 markets worldwide. In August this year, WARC published the first in a new series of quarterly ...