Swiss advertising market records slight increase in August
Advertising spending in August totaled 392.7 million Swiss francs, exceeding the previous month’s figure (July) by 6.3 percent. It also saw a 9.3 percent increase compared to the same month last year, as shown by Media Focus’s Advertising Market Trend.
The reason for this increase is twelve sectors that were able to increase their advertising pressure in the double-digit range. The top 5 advertisers alone are responsible for around half of the previous year's increase.
Advertising pressure in the overall market
The development of advertising print as of August 2021 in millions of gross Swiss francs
Sector order unchanged from previous month
12 of the 21 sectors were able to increase their advertising print by double digits year-on-year. The clear winner in August is "Events" (+81.2%). After Switzerland had to do without events for a long time, the anticipation is all the greater and advertising pressure increases significantly. Concert events, open airs and the "Alliance Cinema Day" are primarily responsible for the increase.
Leisure, hospitality, and tourism," which had suffered heavily from the Corona restrictions, also saw significantly higher advertising pressure in August (+30.1%). Trivago, Tui and Booking.com are acting much stronger in terms of advertising. The Swiss find advertising for their next vacation destinations primarily in online advertising. Other industry winners are media (+52.3%) and tobacco products (+34.3%).
Telecommunications and initiatives & campaigns drive back
While six sectors had reduced their advertising pressure in July, only two did so in August. "Initiatives & Campaigns" (-21.5%) cut back significantly, as in the previous month. The industry saw a significant increase (+32.7%) in August 2020, due to political campaigns and the September 27 referendum. It remains to be seen if this voting peak for the September 26, 2021 referendum will be felt in September. It is possible that advertising pressure for "marriage for all" and "easing the burden on wages" will not increase until a month later.
Telecommunications" was also still among the winners in August 2020 and is losing advertising pressure significantly one year later (-25.2%).
Top of the month
Top advertisers and most advertised products and services (excluding assortment, image advertising and collective categories) in August
