{"id":26380,"date":"2025-08-07T00:42:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/?p=26380"},"modified":"2025-08-07T00:42:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:12:30","slug":"digital-ads-benchmark-report-by-tinuiti-q2-2025-key-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/digital-ads-benchmark-report-by-tinuiti-q2-2025-key-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Ads Benchmark Report by Tinuiti | Q2 2025 | Key Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Boost your digital advertising game with Tinuiti\u2019s Q2 report\u2014a detailed look at how major platforms like Google, Meta, and Amazon performed. Using anonymized campaign data, it offers valuable insights to help you stay ahead of the curve and make smarter, data-driven decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Ad Investments Surge Across Major Platforms in Q2<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Ad spend increased more rapidly in Q2 across Google Search, Meta, Amazon Sponsored Products, and YouTube. To manage rising costs, many brands chose to renegotiate contracts or shift production, helping them protect profits while keeping ad budgets steady.<\/p>\n\n\n

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One reason ad spend stayed strong is that steep tariffs were rolled back \u2014 the 145% rate on Chinese goods dropped to 30% in May. This had a big impact on China-based brands like Shein and Temu. Both paused their Google Shopping ads around mid-April. Shein resumed ads a little over a month later after the tariff cut, and Temu slowly started showing up again in Google Shopping reports by late June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Advertisers are still increasing their investment in YouTube video campaigns, but many are also using Demand Gen campaigns to access Google\u2019s video inventory. In June, around half of Demand Gen’s spending went to video. Overall, Demand Gen spending grew 23% year over year in Q2, boosted by Google\u2019s April move to stop new Video Action Campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ad prices slowed in Q2 for query-based formats like Amazon Sponsored Products and Google paid search. However, clicks on Amazon Sponsored Products jumped 19%\u2014the biggest rise since Q4 2022\u2014while Google paid search also saw its highest click growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paid Social – Meta Trio Sees Ad Spend Surge<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Ad spend on Meta platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, grew 12% year-over-year in Q2 2025. Facebook saw a 12% increase in spend, up from 11% in Q1, while Instagram ad spend rose 11% despite a 1% drop in impressions. Overall impressions on Meta rose 13%, and average CPM increased 12%\u2014marking the fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, though at the slowest pace since Q1 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In Q2 2025, advertisers who used both Reddit and Meta spent about 9% of their Meta budget on Reddit. Pinterest and Snapchat saw 10% and 17% of Meta’s spend, respectively. Although many brands cut back on TikTok spending compared to last year, the typical advertiser still spent 20% as much on TikTok as on Meta, showing that TikTok remains a key part of social media budgets.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Paid Search – CPC Growth Cools on Major Search Platforms<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Spending on Google paid search ads was up 11% year over year in Q2 2025. Click growth accelerated to 7% year-over-year, while CPC growth slowed to 3%. Spending on Microsoft search ads was up 17% year over year in Q2 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Microsoft\u2019s version of Performance Max campaigns saw a 15% year-over-year increase in Microsoft paid search clicks. CPC growth, however, decelerated sharply from 11% in Q1 2025 to just 1% in Q2.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Advertiser spending on Google Shopping (including both standard Shopping and Performance Max) grew by 19% in Q2, up from 8% in Q1. Tinuiti advertisers saw an 18% increase in Shopping ad clicks, double the growth from the previous quarter, while average CPC rose only 1%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a dip from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, spending on Google Shopping ads through Performance Max (PMax) rose again in Q2. For advertisers using both PMax and standard Shopping, PMax made up 59% of ad spend in Q2, up from 53% in Q1. It also drove 59% of the revenue from Google Shopping listings.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In Q2 2025, 55% of Performance Max impressions outside Google Search appeared on other Google-owned platforms (excluding YouTube). Mobile apps made up 11% of impressions, and YouTube videos accounted for 5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CPC for Google search ads on a brand’s own name has been climbing faster than for non-brand ads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n