Technology

57% of China's Ad Spend Will Go to the Internet This Year

A passenger looks at a smartphone on a subway train in Shenzhen, China, on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg)
May 17, 2017 03:00 AM

In China, the world's second-largest ad market, a whopping 57% of ad expenditure will go toward the internet this year, according to GroupM. But the new report also says China's super-fast growth in digital spend is losing some steam, as almost everyone in urban areas now has digital access and the era of massive numbers of new users rushing online is coming to an end.

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