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  "title": "Digital Marketing Statistics 2026: Spend, Budgets, Creators, E-commerce and AI Search",
  "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/digital-marketing-statistics/",
  "updated": "2026-10-29",
  "licence": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data-licence/",
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