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Pending legislation may require Meta and Google to pay domestic news publishers for linking to articles. Both companies say they will block news content if it passes.

Expanded opportunities have made retail media鈥檚 rosy forecast even rosier. But retailers and buyers need to address the channel鈥檚 measurement, standardization, and complexity challenges.

Amazon鈥檚 $1.8 billion ad milestone solidifies a streaming leader: The launch of ads on Prime Video and Thursday Night Football are responsible for a meteoric rise.

Prime Day 2024 shatters records yet again as consumers stock up on essentials: Shoppers spent $14.2 billion online, spurred by significant discounts and the chance to get a head start on back-to-school needs.

Amazon muscles in on Google and Meta鈥檚 ad throne: Retail media and Prime Video propelled the company to a blockbuster 2023鈥攁nd 2024 looks even brighter.

Amazon is growing into an advertising titan: The company鈥檚 ad revenues jumped 26% in Q3 thanks to football and a strong hold on retail media.

Calendar context: With the invention of Prime Day, Amazon created an industrywide retail holiday consumers can now count on in the summer each year. Last year, Amazon also launched its Prime Early Access Sale in October. 鈥淲e now have three key tentpoles,鈥� said our analyst Andrew Lipsman on 鈥淏ehind the Numbers: Reimagining Retail,鈥� referring to Prime Day, the Prime Early Access Sale, and Black Friday. But spring remains untapped. 鈥淎 question I get is, 鈥業s Amazon going to do more of these?鈥� And I think the answer is yes, eventually,鈥� said Lipsman.

Prime Day advertising had a higher ROI than last year: Amazon worked out kinks from 2022鈥檚 event that will help it secure relationships with sellers.

That's 10 times that of Microsoft, but that gap is slowly closing between Google and Microsoft in terms of search ad dollars. Google share will fall, Microsoft's will grow a little bit, and so by 2025 that gap won't be 10 times. It'll be closer to seven times. Moving on to social platforms, gents, and how they could cut into Amazon's product search dominance.

Microsoft reports strong Q4 FY24 results with 19% surge in search and ads: The company鈥檚 next challenge will be to prove its AI investments can fuel continued growth.

Google's Q4 in a nutshell: The search giant had strong overall earnings with a slight ad revenue miss, bolstered by cloud success and generative AI innovation.

Now the dollars are still going up for Google, yes, the pie is getting bigger, but it does seem like some of that dominance is waning, especially in search ad dollars in the US. Ethan Cramer-Flood:.

Google鈥檚 tough year of regulation gets tougher: The EU is reportedly planning to penalize Alphabet for Google鈥檚 favoritism in search results.