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# Ad economy recedes for first time In 16 months, reports MediaPost
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/ad-economy-recedes-for-first-time-in-16-months-reports-mediapost/
- Published: 2022-07-19T19:49:25.000Z
- Updated: 2022-07-19T21:41:53.000Z
- Author: Capitol Communicator
- Tags: Advertising, #wp-upper-left-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:52

**The U.S. ad market contracted a modest 0.3% in June**, marking the first decline since February 2021, according to a MediaPost analysis of data from Standard Media Index’s U.S. Ad Market Tracker.

The contraction follows a steady deceleration of the U.S. ad market’s expansion coming out of the COVID-19-related advertising recession.

MediaPost also states that relative to June 2020, which fell 23.1%, June 2022’s ad market index actually expanded 36.6%.; and most of the June 2022 contraction was due to reductions by the nation’s largest advertising categories.

More [here](https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/375763/the-expansion-is-over-ad-economy-recedes-for-firs.html?ref=capitolcommunicator.com).

IMAGE: MediaPost