Uh-oh: Ad blocking forecast to cost $35 billion by 2020

If publishers continue to address ad blocking by providing better user experiences and working more collaboratively with advertisers, they’ll avoid some massive potential revenue losses: $43 billion’s worth, by 2020, according to Informa Group’s research arm Ovum. Mobile-carrier uptake of network-level ad blocking is also likely to remain niche — largely because 76 percent of global traffic from smartphones and tablets was via WiFi in 2016.