The Guardian reported that Google and Facebook accounted for one-fifth of global ad spending. [fact]
The Guardian reported that Google and Facebook accounted for one-fifth of global ad spending in 2016, nearly double the figure of 2012, and by one accounting Google and Facebook owned almost 90 percent of the growth in advertising expenditures in 2016.
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 504