Digital Advertising in MENA: Programmatic 2024Posted on: Tuesday 18 January 2026 | IAB MENA As part of our efforts to add additional depth to the Annual Adspend survey, this module considers programmatically activated investment in MENA. Programmatic includes several models such as automated guaranteed, unreserved fixed rate, private marketplace (PMP), and open auction (RTB). In [...]
Digital Advertising in MENA: Export 2024Posted on: Tuesday 18 November 2025 | IAB MENA IAB MENA extended our adspend study to quantify not only domestic digital ad spend (advertising delivered to audiences within MENA) but also export spend for 2024, excluding Sponsorships. Using multiple sources, including Agency records, Advertiser budgets and modelling, we were able to [...]
Digital Advertising in MENA: DOOH/pDOOH 2024Posted on: Thursday 20 November 2025 | IAB MENA IAB MENA extended our adspend study to specifically quantify DOOH and pDOOH for 2024 This estimate used multiple sources, including: Historical OOH data from public reports, agencies, and industry analysts A baseline for DOOH spend established at an IAB MENA expert [...]
MENA Digital Advertising spend reached $6,95B in 2024, a 19.8% increase over the previous year.Posted on: Thursday 12 June 2024 | IAB MENA The results of the 2024 Digital Adspend study were released at a member-only event on 12 June 2025. The report, available exclusively to IAB MENA members, includes detailed breakdowns and regional granularity, [...]
Altman Solon 2025 State of Digital Advertising in MENA Study: 4 Steps to Digital Ad Growth in MENAPosted on: Thursday 10 April 2025 | IAB MENA 4 Steps to Digital Ad growth in MENA, was presented by Altman Solon at the IAB MENA Growth Summit in April 2025 and contains insights derived from the 2025 [...]
MENA Digital Advertising spend reached $6,25B in 2023, a 13.6% increase over the previous year and adding over $700M to the market.Posted on: Tuesday 11 June 2024 | IAB MENA The results of the 2023 Digital Adspend study were released at a member-only event on 6 June 2024. The report, available to IAB MENA members, [...]
IAB Europe releases the full 2022 AdEx Benchmark ReportPosted on: Friday 14 July 2023 | IAB MENA A useful context when reviewing the MENA Digital Adspend report, the IAB Europe AdEx 2022 report is the definitive guide to advertising expenditure in Europe covering 29 markets. It details the formats and channels that contributed to digital [...]
MENA Digital Advertising spend reached $5,5B in 2022, a 20.1% increase over the previous year and adding over $900M to the market.Posted on: Tuesday 13 June 2023 | IAB MENA The IAB MENA released the results of the 2022 Digital Adspend study at a member-only event on 9 June 2023. This year’s report, available to [...]
The GCC chapter of the Interactive Advertising Bureau released for a second consecutive year an estimate of the size of the Digital Adspend Market for the MENA region.Posted on: Thursday 16 June 2022 | IAB GCC MENA Digital Advertising spend reached $4,58B in 2021, nearly a full $1B increase on the previous year according to [...]
The GCC chapter of the Interactive Advertising Bureau released a first of its kind industry study in MENA to measure investment for the region.Posted on: Wednesday 22 September 2021 | IAB GCC The IAB board that includes 14 of the leading companies in the ad industry (Choueiri Group | DMS, MBC Group, MMP World Wide, [...]
