The Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria, AAAN has disclosed that advertising expenditure for 2013 had grown to N125 billion from N91 billion in 2012, explaining that the figure represents advertising spend from the organised private sector alone.
The Association said that Nigeria’s economy can do better with sectors like the power, Agric, tourism and ICT operating at full potential, whilst the advertising industry is positioned for expected growth.
According to the association the above figure was the advertising spend in 2013 from Television ad which amounted to N66,250billion, Radio N22,500billion, Outdoor N23,750billion and the press N23,500billion which totaled N125,000 billion.
The Chairman, Publicity Committee of AAAN, Dr. Celey Okogwu, made this disclosure at a press briefing which addressed major issues in the economy tagged: Advertising and the economy, with sub-heads, AAAN contribution to the national economy, and how the conference will affect the advertising industry in Nigeria, as well as the Association’s nomination to the forthcoming National discourse.
The Chairman noted that there is a proven link between advertising and the economic growth of a country which, he said will be the major focus of the association at the conference.
He said that the association’s business analysis projected that political campaigns in 2014 will greatly increase advertising spend, while the telecom and the banking sectors are expected to increase over the last year’s figure, as a result of projected increase in the banking sector spend due to new banking regime and rebranding exercise.
