The global advertising market grew to 552 billion USD

This year, the global advertising market closed a great year. The revenues of the the global advertising market increased by 7.2 percent, compared to the previous year, to record levels to 552 billion USD – Világgazdaság Online wrote.

According to the Magna market research consultant, which had corrected its 6.4 percent forecast, the third driving force behind the growth were the Russian Football World Cup, the South Korean Winter Olympics and the November mid-term US election, wher 4 billion USD spendings were measured. Never have so much money were spent in elections yet. (vg.hu, Kriván Bence)