⚡ Advertising in Canada

Online advertising is done using various technologies, including advertising networks, ad servers, demand-side platforms (DSPs), and supply-side platforms (SSPs).

Canada is a North American country with a population of over 40 million people.

According to our research, online advertising platforms are detected on 17.3% of websites from Canada.

Statistics based on 67K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top online advertising platforms in Canada in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Google Ads with an impressive share of 30.6%, followed by Google AdSense for Domains with 22.4% and Google AdSense with 21.1%.

Google Ads 30.6%
Google AdSense for Domains 22.4%
Google AdSense 21.1%
LinkedIn Ads 8.8%
Microsoft Advertising 7.8%
Google Ad Manager 7.4%
Google AdSense for Platforms 5.5%
Ezoic 4.9%
Amazon Advertising 2.9%
Simpli.fi 1.7%
The Trade Desk 1.7%
Magnite 1.5%
StackAdapt 1.4%
AdRoll 1.4%
Adobe Advertising 1.4%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top online advertising platforms that are more popular in Canada than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. Google Ads ^(-1)
2. Google AdSense for Domains ^(-1)
5. Microsoft Advertising ^(-1)
6. Google Ad Manager ^(-1)
9. Amazon Advertising ^(-1)
10. Simpli.fi ^(-16)
11. The Trade Desk ^(-5)
12. Magnite ^(-9)
13. StackAdapt ^(-23)
14. AdRoll ^(-3)

✨ Best Online Advertising Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 138 online advertising platforms used on sites from Canada, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Google Ads Mountain View, California, United States A pay-per-click advertising platform owned by Google that allows businesses to display ads across Google Search, YouTube, Google Maps, and a large network of third-party partner sites including ones monetizing through Google AdSense.	30.6%
2	Google AdSense for Domains Mountain View, California, United States Enables domain registrars and large domain portfolio owners to earn revenue by displaying targeted Google ads on parked domains.	22.4%
3	Google AdSense Mountain View, California, United States An advertising network that lets publishers earn revenue by displaying targeted ads on their websites. $$$	21.1%
4	LinkedIn Ads Mountain View, California, United States An advertising platform that allows businesses to create and run targeted campaigns to reach specific professional audiences on LinkedIn.	8.8%
5	Microsoft Advertising Redmond, Washington, United States A pay-per-click advertising platform that allows businesses to run search and audience ads across Bing, Yahoo!, DuckDuckGo, and partner networks.	7.8%
6	Google Ad Manager Mountain View, California, United States An ad management and ad exchange platform for large publishers who have significant direct sales, that enables them to serve and sell advertising inventory across websites and mobile apps.	7.4%
7	Google AdSense for Platforms Mountain View, California, United States An enterprise advertising solution that enables content platforms, CMSs, and site builders to embed Google AdSense monetization natively into their services.	5.5%
8	Ezoic Carlsbad, California, United States A technology platform for digital publishers that provides ad revenue optimization solutions and works as a Google-certified publishing partner. $$$	4.9%
9	Amazon Advertising Seattle, Washington, United States A pay-per-click advertising platform used to display ads on Amazon.com, IMDb, Twitch, and other sites.	2.9%
10	Simpli.fi Fort Worth, Texas, United States A programmatic DSP and DMP platform offering solutions for CTV, addressable, geo-fencing, mobile, display, native, audio and social advertising. $10,000+/month	1.7%
11	The Trade Desk Ventura, California, United States A programmatic demand-side platform that enables marketers to plan, execute, and optimize data-driven advertising campaigns across digital channels.	1.7%
12	Magnite New York, United States An omnichannel supply-side and CTV/video advertising platform formed in 2020 through the merger of Rubicon Project and Telaria.	1.5%
13	StackAdapt Thornhill, Ontario, Canada A multi-channel programmatic advertising platform specializing in native, display, video, connected TV, audio, in-game, and DOOH advertising.	1.4%
14	AdRoll San Francisco, California, United States A digital advertising platform that enables businesses to run AI-driven, cross-channel campaigns with audience targeting, retargeting, and dynamic personalization. $36+/month	1.4%
15	Adobe Advertising San Jose, California, United States A cross-channel platform that offers brands the ability to plan, buy, manage, measure, analyze and optimize display, video, native, mobile, audio, search and connected TV advertising campaigns.	1.4%
16	Mediavine New York, United States A premium ad management network for established publishers that monetizes website traffic through display advertising, typically requiring at least 50,000 monthly sessions for entry. $$$	1.4%
17	Google Marketing Platform Mountain View, California, United States An enterprise digital advertising and analytics suite developed by Google that enables organizations to plan, buy, measure, and optimize marketing campaigns.	1.3%
18	Quantcast San Francisco, California, United States A digital platform specializing in real-time advertising, audience measurement and consent management. Free$$$	1.3%
19	Criteo Paris, France A French performance advertising platform focused on commerce media and retargeting.	1.2%
20	Microsoft Invest Redmond, Washington, United States A a demand side ad management platform with full buy-side capabilities.	1.2%
21	AdRotate Den Helder, Netherlands An advertising manager plugin for WordPress that features unlimited ad units, automatic ad rotation and integration with Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager, Amazon Ads, Media.net and more. FreeOpen source€49.00+	1%
22	Taboola New York, United States A native advertising platform that connects publishers with a network of advertisers interested in placing sponsored content on their sites. $$$	0.8%
23	Raptive New York, United States A premium ad management network that helps content publishers monetize their websites through optimized ad placements. $$$	0.7%
24	Outbrain New York, United States A content discovery and native advertising platform that helps advertisers promote sponsored content and recommendations on publisher sites. $$$	0.6%
25	Blockthrough Toronto, Ontario, Canada A popular adblock revenue recovery solution.	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Advertising in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 67,681 websites from Canada.
We currently track the presence of 198 online advertising platforms across the web.
Of these, 138 were detected on websites from Canada.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.