<p>US, China, Japan, Germany and the UK lead as the top five ad markets</p>

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<p class="leadPara" style="margin: 10px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.8571434020996px;">Around the world, advertisers will spend $592.43 billion in 2015, according to new figures from eMarketer, an increase of 6.0% over 2014.</p>

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Currently, the top five spenders in each advertising category—total paid media, digital and mobile—are the US, China, Japan, Germany and the UK. While the UK lags Japan and Germany in total media spending, its digital ad market outpaces both, with digital and mobile ads representing significantly higher shares of overall advertising than its two predecessors in the overall market. Otherwise, the rankings are consistent across all media markets.

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