North America Programmatic Advertisement - Market Share Analysis, Industry Trends & Statistics, Growth Forecasts (2025 - 2030)

The North America Programmatic Advertisement Market is expected to register a CAGR of 17.18% during the forecast period.

Key Highlights

• Advertisers expect better performance and capabilities from the advertising technology they use. Content publishers and brand owners may utilize programmatic advertising to locate and apply the relevant messages to improve the value and effectiveness of a viewer's digital out-of-home advertising experience.
• Only one in ten marketing specialists in North America fully comprehends programmatic advertising. To keep up with this industry's rapid growth, there is a steady rise in the demand for qualified talent.
• As companies and agencies grapple with shifting needs and internal programmatic advertising technologies, there will be a skills scarcity for a very long time. For instance, programmed TV will soon require more specialist personnel and training as a result of this exciting technological advancement.
• Further, with the expansion of social networks and other online stream services, videos have shown the steady growth over the past years. Canadian digital market has witnessed a more than six-fold increase in video ads since 2015. In 2022, video is predicted to overcome other traditional digital display spend for the first time,according to Harward Business Review . It is estimated that nearly 75% of digital ad video will be bought programmatically by the end of 2022.
• Moreover, the use of automation and machine learning technology to purchase and show digital advertisements to segmented audiences in real-time is projected to climb drastically over the next three years, according to research conducted in 2021 from ALFI, a US based AI enterprise SaaS advertising platform.
• Programmatic advertising provide various benefits, including real-time insights into the effectiveness of ad campaigns, enhanced targeting capabilities, increased transparency on ad inventory, improved budget usage, and effective ad fraud management, all of which help drive the market. On the other hand, a lack of understanding of programmatic advertising expenditure is expected to hamper industry growth during the projection period.
• When the first wave of COVID-19 hit in March, according to an IAB analysis, brands cut spending by up to 30% overnight, with one in four suspending activity completely. Many expected that the consequences will be far worse than the financial crisis of 2008. As approached to the end of 2020, the majority of businesses have cut, or in some cases, ceased, their advertising expenditures.

North America Programmatic Advertisement Market Trends

Increased Mobile Penetration Drives the Market

• Digital advertising is one of the primary ways that certain digital platforms monetise their data. Global digital platforms have kept strengthening their position as the market's main force including North America.
• As per UNCTAD Digital Economy Report 2021, digital advertising spending is anticipated to increase to 60% of all media advertising spending by 2022, which is about twice as much as it was in 2013. By then, it's anticipated that the top five digital platforms would account for more than 70% of all digital advertising spending.
• By 2026, it is predicted that 5G mobile data traffic would outpace that of 4G and older technologies. Due to their efficient networks, high-end user devices, and reasonably priced huge data packages, North America and Europe consume more data globally than other regions while having lower worldwide mobile subscription rates for 5G technology.
• As per GSMA Mobile Economy Report, in North America, subscriber penetration in 2021 was reported to be 84% and is anticipated to 85% in 2025. While smartphone adoption in 2021 was reported as 82% and is anticipated to be 85% in 2025. Such kind of growth in mobile penetration leads most of the North American programmatic companies to adopt mobile advertisement to have greater reach.

Adoption of Technologies such as 5G, AI & ML are anticipated to Grow the Market

• Machine learning AI algorithms are far more suited to the real-time environment of programmatic advertising than non-AI algorithms because they can learn from and modify their behavior in response to new patterns they detect. Large datasets may be processed swiftly by AI systems as well. Together, these elements affect how AI affects many facets of programmatic advertising.
• Companies in the market such as MediaMath, Xandr, etc. show interest in AI for programmatic advertisement due to various benefits such as AI may assist marketers in adjusting their bid strategy in light of consumer data and helping them choose the appropriate bid price for the ad space they wish to acquire. This increases ROI and lowers ad spending.
• By restricting the auction to the most qualified bidders, AI may also assist in identifying which advertisers are more likely to be successful with their offers for the available ad space. This is advantageous to the publishers.
• As per GSMA Mobile Economy Reports, in North America, 2G, 3G network adoption rate shares as 3%, 6% respectively. While 4G holds major share accounted 78% and 5G as 13% in 2021. While it is anticipated that 5G contributes to 63% share followed by 4G with 31% and 2G, 3G with 2%, 4% shares in 2025.

North America Programmatic Advertisement Industry Overview

The North America Programmatic Advertisement market is moderately fragmented and consists of several major players. The major players with a prominent share in the market such as PubMatic, MediaMath, Google Ad Manager, Adobe Advertisement Cloud, AdRoll, etc., are focusing on expanding their customer base across foreign countries through the adoption of various technologies.

• October 2021 - US-based companies PubMatic and Semasio, a prominent player in Unified Targeting which seamlessly combines audience and contextual targeting on the buy- and the sell-side, announced an expanded partnership that enables media buyers to increase audience addressability at a user- and page-level.
• November 2021 - NewYork based MediaMath has integrated its demand-side platform (DSP) with IBM Watson Advertising Weather Targeting to offer increased digital advertising precision and effectiveness while addressing new privacy standards.

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