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General Motors tops Adage list of Top 100 advertisers, AOL is No 2
 
The Indiantelevision.com Team

(28 June 2003 2:00 pm)
 
NEW YORK: Detroit based auto behemoth General Motors has maintained its leading position as numero uno advertiser in the United States. The recently released annual adage study on the Top 100 advertisers in the US says that the company spent $3,652 million (up 8.5 per cent) in 2002.
 
 

In the Adage Top 100 list, General Motors is followed by AOL Time Warner ($2,923 million); Procter & Gamble ($2,673 million); Pzifer ($2,566 million) and Ford Motor Company ($2,252 million). In fact, Pzifer increased its spend by 10.1 per cent over 2001 in order to dethrone Ford from the fourth position (in 2001) - Ford decreased spends by 4.5 per cent.

Apart from AOL Time Warner, another entertainment company Walt Disney spent $1,803 million and is ranked in the seventh spot. FMCG behemoth Unilever is ranked tenth with a spend of $1,640 million whereas Johnson & Johnson is ranked eight with $1,799 million.

The other media companies in the list are Sony Corp. (11) with $1,621 million, Viacom (16) $ 1,260 million, News Corp. (43) $716 million, Vivendi Universal (54) $591 million and General Electric (55) with $579 million.


Spends on different media in the US - Adage study

Media vehicles in the US
2002 share
($ million)
2001 share ($ million)
Magazine
16,749
16,417
Sunday magazine
1,314
1,157
Newspaper
19,347
17,729
National newspaper
2,799
2,932
Outdoor
2,398
2,380
Network TV
20,015
18,638
Spot TV
16,172
14,100
Syndicated TV
2,946
3,192
Cable TV networks
10,783
10,291
Network radio
965
834
National spot radio
2,446
2,164
Internet
5,740
6,518
Yellow Pages
13,776
13,592
Measured media
115,450
109,945
Unmeasured estimates
121,425
121,342
Total US advertising
236,875
231,287


The 100 leading American advertisers are selected from the 250 largest US advertisers based on measured media spending in 2002. That group is pared to 100 after estimated unmeasured expenditures are added.

Measured media advertising is the spending in 14 national consumer media monitored by TNS Media Intelligence/CMR and Yellow Pages from Yellow Pages Integrated Media Association.

 

 
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