2025 Media Spend Outlook: Inflation’s Real Impact on Automotive, CPG & Pharma Advertising

Exclusive from Guideline, the world’s only source for actual advertising spend data—not estimates.
Discover How Inflation Is Reshaping Ad Spend Across Key Categories

In today’s volatile economy, every marketing dollar counts—and the forces driving media spend shifts aren’t always obvious. Guideline’s latest Metrics in Motion whitepaper unpacks the powerful link between CPI volatility and advertising investment, revealing how inflation trends ripple across the media marketplace.

Get exclusive, data-rich deep dives into Automotive, CPG, and Pharmaceutical advertising spend—categories that collectively represent more than 40% of the market. Learn which sectors are most sensitive to economic pressure, how quickly they react, and what this means for your media strategy in 2025 and beyond.

Download now to access category-specific insights, trend timelines, and market signals you won’t find anywhere else—powered by Guideline’s $115B annual ad spend dataset.


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2025 Media Ad Spend Report: Who’s Winning, What’s Changing, and Why It Matters

Discover how $156B in verified media spend is shifting across digital, linear, programmatic, and retail media. Guideline.ai’s latest report reveals Q1 2025’s top-performing channels, biggest spend shifts, and where leading brands are reallocating budgets. Powered by real billing data from the world’s largest agency holding groups, this report offers unmatched insight for brands, publishers, and media professionals planning for what’s next

In a quarter marked by economic uncertainty, media budgets didn’t shrink—they evolved.

This 2025 Media Spend Report, powered by Guideline’s $156B in real billing data, uncovers how brands are reallocating investments toward flexible, performance-based channels.

  • Digitalnowdominateswith66.9%shareofwallet,ledbyProgrammatic(+16%) 
  • ScatterTVsurges,whileUpfrontsandDirectResponseTVshrink
  • RetailMediaandSEMsustainlower-funnelgrowth
  • PreferredDeals&PMPsaredrivingthenextwaveofpremiumprogrammatic

With this report you will see how leading advertisers are shifting away from rigid formats and toward outcome-driven strategies—and what it means for media owners, brands, and the platforms that serve them.


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Intellectual Property in the Age of AI

Large language models, trained on massive datasets, pose a risk to subscription-based and licensed content, undermining copyright and devaluing original work.

Download the new guide from Copyleaks to explore:

  • How AI is disrupting the media and publishing industries 

  • Copyright challenges in the AI era

  • Understand if LLMs trained on your data

  • Real-world strategies for protecting your content


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