Thomson Reuters’ victory over Ross Intelligence sets a major legal precedent, challenging AI firms like on their use of copyrighted data for model training
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| Feb 12, 2025
Social, search, and CTV ad spend trends in Q2: Meta, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google, and Microsoft show strong performance overall, driven by AI, innovative ad formats, and global expansion—highlighting the increasing importance of digital advertising across various platforms.
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| Aug 19, 2024
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| Mar 12, 2025
Source: Dentsu; Septeni; Carta Communications Inc. (CCI)
This is the first installment of our quarterly “Ad Spending Benchmarks” series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.
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| Aug 16, 2024
This is the first installment of our quarterly “Ad Spending Benchmarks” series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.
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| Aug 16, 2024
Amazon will begin selling its ad tech to third-party retailers: The new Amazon Retail Ad Service will give companies access to the retailer’s advanced targeting and sizable advertiser network.
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| Jan 9, 2025
Mexico is Latin America's second-largest ad market by total spending but has the highest digital ad penetration in the region. Here, we explore the country's consumer behaviors and opportunities for advertisers.
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| Aug 7, 2024
Click here to view our full forecasts for display ad spending worldwide and search ad spending worldwide. Retail media is booming on a global scale. Retail media is getting bigger everywhere, though it’s still heavily a US and China story. Retail media ad spending growth will accelerate to 20.3% this year and tick up in 2025 as well.
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| May 29, 2024
Microsoft bets big on AI and cloud, but TikTok acquisition could reshape its ad strategy: Investors weigh future growth against spending risks and competition.
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| Jan 30, 2025
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| Mar 1, 2025
Source: ĢAV
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| Mar 1, 2025
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So if we look at retail media for example, we already specifically track retail media search ad spending is a separate line item in our digital ad spending forecast in the US only at the moment. And what we see there that over the next several years is that retail search spend will grow at around about twice the rate of "traditional search.".
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| Jan 6, 2025
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| Mar 1, 2025
Source: ĢAV
Even so, travel will increase its search ad spending by 17.3% in 2024, the highest for any industry. Most industries will increase search spending by at least 10 percentage points in 2024. The exceptions are financial services, automotive, telecom, and healthcare and pharma. Retail still lags in video ad spending, despite growth.
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| Feb 29, 2024
At $22.25 billion, digital advertising is advancing unabated in Latin America this year. Double-digit gains in video and retail media ad spending, as well as improving economic conditions in Brazil and Mexico, will help take the regional market to new heights. Here are the latest trends you need to know.
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| Jul 23, 2024
Disruption is imminent for programmatic. The market teeters on the brink of several seismic shifts around identity and audience data. And a landmark antitrust ruling could energize an already hot ad tech consolidation streak.
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| Feb 12, 2025
On today's episode, we discuss the prevalence of folks using first-party data in clean rooms, Amazon Marketing Cloud, and privacy. "In Other News," we talk about how Meta’s recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violation could threaten its ad duopoly status and the impact of Twitter losing more than 500 of its top advertisers. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Max Willens and Tinuiti's Nirish Parsad, practice lead in emerging technology, and Aly Fields, associate director of commerce.
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| Jan 25, 2023
Google currently holds 26.7% of US digital ad spend share and 52.4% of US search spend share, per our November 2024 forecast. The company has faced some competition due to cookie loss, the rise of retail media search advertising, and generative AI search disruption.
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| Nov 25, 2024
Search and advertising come under fire as the CMA takes a proactive approach to regulation while the US DOJ focuses on punitive remedies.
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| Jan 14, 2025
Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf (14:05):. .... losing share, but the pie is growing, and it's mostly that most new search ad dollars are going to Amazon, where ... Not most new search ad dollars, just more new search ad dollars are going-. Marcus Johnson (14:05):. Right.
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| Nov 14, 2024
Perplexity has firm plans to include ads on its platform in Q4, potentially capturing a slice of search ad spending, which we forecast to grow by almost $60 billion between 2024 and 2028. Perplexity in pole position: As the most notable pure-play AI search player, Perplexity has stoked investor confidence with its revenue-sharing program for participating publishers.
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| Nov 6, 2024
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| Feb 4, 2025
Source: Dentsu; Exchange4Media
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| Feb 4, 2025
Source: Dentsu; Exchange4Media
As genAI empowers voice assistants and captures some search behavior, chatbots could also capture some search advertising dollars. It’s too soon to make projections, but the potential for significant sums of audio search advertising is there.
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| Apr 17, 2024
Younger generations have embraced TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube as search engines. Although TikTok’s future in the US is uncertain, the social search opportunity remains robust.
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| Jun 4, 2024