On today’s podcast episode, we discuss why Google is now keeping third-party cookies, who’s most likely to buy Chrome if they have to sell it, and the impact of AI Overviews so far. Join Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, Senior Director of Briefings Jeremy Goldman, and Principal Analyst Yory Wurmser. Listen everywhere and watch on YouTube and Spotify.
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| May 5, 2025
This is the first installment of our “UK Ad Spending Benchmarks” series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.
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| Apr 30, 2025
This is the first installment of our “UK Ad Spending Benchmarks” series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.
Report
| Apr 30, 2025
Brazil’s digital economy is rapidly evolving, fueled in part by ecommerce growth. Our three-report collection explores key trends and opportunities shaping Brazil’s commerce landscape in 2025.
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| Mar 13, 2025
The top two desired search innovations consumers are looking for are real-time search results with up-to-the-minute information (38%) and more relevant product recommendations (34%), per an October 2024 survey from adMarketplace, Veridata, and TEAM LEWIS.
Article
| Apr 2, 2025
Organizations will prioritize governance in 2025 as they ramp up genAI investments in pursuit of business transformation.
Report
| Jan 7, 2025
Google’s visual intelligence upgrade puts real-time discovery in users’ hands, opening doors for brand integration and premium engagement.
Article
| Mar 24, 2025
It's made recent just general search initiatives and search ad initiatives. So early this year it launched an image search feature for TikTok shop. So directly linked to the products that people will be searching for, which I think was pretty smart. And then in September, so a few short months ago, it introduced the its TikTok search ads campaign.
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| Jan 6, 2025
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| Apr 17, 2025
Source: Ahrefs
Approximately two-thirds (66.9%) of Amazon’s $45 billion in retail media revenues come from on-site search ads fueled by the company’s vast ecommerce dominance. Furthermore, Amazon’s diminishing YoY growth rates in retail media signal that the ecommerce giant is reaching the limitations of on-site monetization.
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| Apr 4, 2025
Digital’s share of total media ad spending will hit almost 78% in 2024 and exceed even this high number in some industries. This report looks at some factors that correlate with an industry’s digital spending.
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| Sep 26, 2024
Inside Puma’s biggest campaign to date: The “Go Wild” campaign takes a multichannel approach and could help Puma exceed its 2025 expectations.
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| Mar 21, 2025
Marcus Johnson (13:27):. ... because Google's share of the search ad revenue pie has been heading in the wrong direction for a while, way before the announcement of SearchGPT, dipping below 50% for the first time this year, according to our estimates. So, from 2022 to 2026, we expect Google's share to fall eight points, from 55% to 47%, that's of the search ad revenue pie in the US, by 2026.
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| Nov 14, 2024
Video ad spending continues to outpace overall digital ad spending and will power the fastest-growing ad-supported media.
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| Dec 18, 2024
This is the second installment of our quarterly “Ad Spending Benchmarks” series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.
Report
| Oct 22, 2024
Chegg is suing Google, claiming AI Overviews steal its content and cut its traffic. The case highlights fears that AI-driven search is eroding content creators’ business models.
Article
| Feb 25, 2025
Why it matters: Although Google’s share of search advertising revenues dropped below 50% for the first time this year, the company remains the ad goliath all challengers must contend with. Google’s declining digital ad share is partly due to competitive pressures from the likes of Amazon and TikTok.
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| Oct 30, 2024
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| Mar 19, 2025
Source: Algolia; Escalent
How can ad buyers calibrate their ad spending and budget allocations against average for their industry, and how can publishers and solution providers assess whether their ad revenues are in line with industry trends?
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| Oct 22, 2024
How can ad buyers calibrate their B2B ad spending and budget allocations against the market, and how can publishers and solution providers assess whether their ad revenues are in line with industry trends?
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| Oct 22, 2024
Social search ads and genAI players like ChatGPT and Perplexity also pose a threat to traditional search ad revenues. But Google isn’t going away. “Google’s status as the default search engine across most major browsers and devices will help protect its dominance,” Mitchell-Wolf said. 3. Retail media will face growing pains.
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| Nov 4, 2024
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| Mar 6, 2025
Source: Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)
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| Mar 6, 2025
Source: Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)
In January, the most interesting retailers capitalized on New Year’s trends like resolutions, lower-alcohol consumption, and an influx of holiday returns. Poshmark and Sephora introduced new partnerships, while Amazon and Temu increased their own retail media-related offerings.
Here are the eight most significant retail developments of January 2024, ranked by their potential market impact.
Article
| Feb 3, 2025
Note: Digital ad spending includes banner ads and other (static display ads such as Facebook's News Feed Ads and X's Promoted Posts), classified ads, email (embedded ads only), mobile messaging (SMS, MMS, and P2P messaging), rich media (including in-stream and outstream video ads), search ads (including contextual text links, paid inclusion, paid listings, and SEO), sponsorships, lead generation (referrals
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| Nov 13, 2024