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40% -- search share of digital ad revenue for US search advertising (2024)

2024  · IAB / PwC

US search advertising represented almost 40% of all digital ad revenue in 2024.

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IAB / PwC Primary Tier A
https://stg-adclaritystaging-adclaritystg.kinsta.cloud/blog/inside-2025-us-digital-ad-spend-and-what… ↗
Confidence: 57/100 Vintage: 2024 Channel: Deep Crawl
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Inside 2025 US Digital Ad Spend and What It Means for 2026 - AdClarity
As we look back at 2025 from the start of 2026, our proprietary data shows a US digital ad market that grew modestly in total, but shifted sharply in how budgets were allocated. Across social, display, online video, and Connected TV, spend reached about 164.3 billion dollars in 2025, up roughly 4 pe…
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Share of all US digital ad revenue per IAB/PwC report

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US search advertising: 40% search share of digital ad revenue. Source: IAB / PwC (2024). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/us-search-share-digital-2024
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