Native ads to make up 63% of mobile display ad spend by 2020, Facebook/IHS study finds | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

A new study on native advertising from Facebook and IHS Inc. accompanies new stats from Facebook on its Audience Network — the mobile ad network that recently branched out from in-app to mobile web publishers.


According to the new report, by 2020, media buyers will spend $84.5 billion on mobile advertising with mobile accounting for 75.9 percent of all digital ad spend globally. Native will be as significant driver of mobile ad growth.


Native in-stream ads will drive 63.2 percent of all mobile display advertising at $53 billion by 2020. The study anticipates third-party in-app native advertising (ads not running on Facebook) will be the fastest growing ad format in digital advertising and will grow at 70.7 percent compound annual growth rate between 2015 and 2020 to account for 10.6 percent of mobile display ad spend....