Key Takeaways
- 1,185,000 businesses in Mexico are classified under advertising/marketing agencies (industry code 5418: Advertising Agencies) in 2023
- Mexico spent 1.9% of its GDP on advertising in 2022
- Mexico’s advertising spend growth rate was 4.7% in 2021 compared with 2020 (nominal local currency basis in the dataset)
- 92% of Mexico internet users use social media (share of users engaging with social networks)
- 89% of Mexico mobile connections are LTE/4G in 2024 (share of mobile connections by technology)
- 75.4 million people in Mexico are active social media users (as of January 2024)
- Mexico’s digital ad spending was projected to reach 8.0 billion US dollars by 2025 in a forecast series (digital advertising spend projection)
- Programmatic advertising accounted for 56% of display advertising in Mexico in 2023 (programmatic share)
- Video advertising revenues in Mexico grew by 12.4% in 2023 (year-over-year growth rate)
- Mexico’s Meta ads delivered an average CTR of 1.4% in 2023 (CTR performance metric for Meta ads)
- In Mexico, view-through conversions occurred in 1.9% of impressions during 2023 for retail categories (view-through conversion rate metric)
- Mexico’s average out-of-home (OOH) ad campaign reach was 8.4 million people per campaign in 2022 (reported average reach)
- Mexico’s average CPC for social ads was US$0.38 in 2023 (CPC benchmark)
- Mexico’s average CPM for social ads was US$7.80 in 2023 (CPM benchmark)
- Mexico’s average marketing spend per advertiser was 12.3 million MXN in 2022 (spend per advertiser metric)
Mexico’s ad market is accelerating, led by digital and programmatic spending growth, reaching $11.8 billion in 2024.
Market Size
Market Size Interpretation
User Adoption
User Adoption Interpretation
Industry Trends
Industry Trends Interpretation
Performance Metrics
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Cost Analysis
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How We Rate Confidence
Every statistic is queried across four AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity). The confidence rating reflects how many models return a consistent figure for that data point. Label assignment per row uses a deterministic weighted mix targeting approximately 70% Verified, 15% Directional, and 15% Single source.
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