Adspend to benefit from Olympics halo effect, says Warc

The advertising intelligence body said the increase “masks the underlying caution of marketers due to considerable economic uncertainty.” The buoyancy can be largely attributed to predicted growth in the US market of 4.1% and raised expenditures throughout the BRIC economies.

It is the emerging markets that are expected to record the strongest growth in 2012. China is predicted to increase expenditure by 15.5%, followed by Russia ( 14%), India ( 9.3%) and Brazil ( 8.9%).

However, weakness in the current economic climate could mean that only China and Russia maintain their positions as the fastest-growing markets. The other two might see projections fall – Brazil could slow to 3.4% and India to just 1.1%. Only the troubled European countries are forecast to achieve lower growth than this.

Across all 12 markets, adspend is expected to increase 2.1% in real terms in 2012.

Forecast adspend growth in 2012

Forecast growth calculated in local currency.
Source: www.warc.com/data