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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Mark Sweney

Two-thirds of UK’s biggest advertisers to cut television spend

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A Christmas advert from Asda in 2019. Marketing budgets are an easy target for cuts when businesses are faced with making significant cost savings, Photograph: Asda/PA

More than two-thirds of the UK’s biggest advertisers intend to cut back spending on traditional TV next year, as the recession fuels a shift to digital media and last-minute bursts of promotion.

A survey of 59 UK advertisers has found that 67% will make the deepest budget cuts to ads on broadcast TV, according to the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) and the media investment analysts Ebiquity.

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