Middle East war clouds global ad spending outlook

March 14, 2026

Middle East war clouds global ad spending outlook

The ad spending numbers for 2026 looked good until the war in the Middle East made them provisional. Not because they were optimistic or vacuous about ad spending this year but because they were built on assumptions about a world that existed two weeks ago – one where the biggest variables were tariffs, AI and

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