In 2021, the food and beverage sector spent less than five billion U.S. dollars on advertising in the United States, down 30 percent from over seven billion dollars four years earlier, in 2017. TV alone accounted for around 80 percent of 2021 total ad expenditures.
Total advertising spending of the food and beverage sector in the United States in 2017 and 2021, by medium
(in billion U.S. dollars)
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Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale. (November 14, 2022). Total advertising spending of the food and beverage sector in the United States in 2017 and 2021, by medium (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved March 15, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1387793/ad-spend-food-beverage-united-states/?__sso_cookie_checker=failed
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