
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on marketing investments in Sweden 2020, by channel
Most of Swedish large and medium-sized firms significantly decreased the investments in own events due to the coronavirus outbreak in 2020, with 58 percent of the respondents. Additionally, 37 percent decreased investments in outdoor advertising. By contrast, 32 percent of the surveyed companies increased search (SEO/SEM) advertising, 29 percent increased email advertising and 24 percent increased social media and audio/podcast advertising each.