But there’s still nine months until Election Day, and Meta remains an important venue for political advertisers. It will account for 16.0% of US digital political ad spending in 2024, compared with 16.0% for Google, the parent company of YouTube. Ads are a small slice of political content on social. Political ads will make up just 0.9% of Meta’s ad revenues in 2024.
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Made-for-advertising (MFA) websites, which run programmatic ads but lack quality content or engagement, account for just 2% of unique websites, but are drawing in as much as 11% of total open programmatic ad spend worldwide, according to October 2023 data from Pixalate.
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| Jun 26, 2024
Google hesitated to dive into generative search until pushed by OpenAI, Microsoft, and a raft of smaller companies, such as Perplexity with their AI-powered search tools. That hesitation is gone.
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The incoming Trump administration will indisputably affect the future of Big Tech. The breakup of Google, the forced sale or ban of TikTok, and the regulation of AI are all issues the president-elect will need to take a stance on.
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| Dec 2, 2024
It can introduce a treatment to a patient in passing, reinforce it through repetition, and then resurface at the right time—whether during a provider visit or a Google search. For example, AstraZeneca uses OOH to catch patients at key moments, like on their way to work, and to boost both brand visibility and morale for field reps.
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| May 16, 2025
Roku Q3 results emphasize ad-supported growth: Increased streaming hours and accounts offer advertisers valuable inventory.
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| Oct 31, 2024
Amazon wins significant brand attention for Thursday Night Football: A few years into its rights deal, the company persuades advertisers to hop aboard.
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| Sep 11, 2024
Microsoft comes for the ad market: AI is bigger than just marketing. Microsoft is racing with Google to develop prominent AI-powered products across industries. If AI can help Microsoft claim even a small portion of Google’s digital ad market share, that amounts to a multibillion-dollar opportunity. Microsoft has been pushing its way into advertising in recent years.
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| Mar 7, 2023
Google services: YouTube, Gmail, Drive, and Nest. The details: Cloudflare, whose customers also experienced service issues, blamed Google Cloud for the disruption. The failure crashed everything from APIs to developer tools, underscoring the fragility of today’s cloud-first digital economy.
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| Jun 13, 2025
On today’s podcast, we discuss the ĢAV report, 9 Pivotal Shifts in AI, Regulation, and Advertising That Will Change the Business Landscape. Our analysts will compete in the Great Behind The Numbers Take Off – Top Trends edition, borrowing from the television show, The Great British Bake Off. In the Take Off, we will talk in-depth about how retail media, social and AI will undercut traditional search and will governments protect children from digital ad giants. Listen to the conversation with Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, Senior Analyst Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf, and Analyst Bill Fisher. Listen everywhere and watch on YouTube and Spotify.
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| Jan 6, 2025
Google may roll out its new consent-based cookie model this year, severely limiting 屹پ’ access to third-party cookies. In response, marketers will continue to strengthen their first-party data strategies. “As third-party cookies phase out, marketers are increasingly turning to first-party data for audience targeting,” said Ben Skinazi, CMO of Sharethrough, an Equativ company.
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| Jan 8, 2025
Generative AI has the potential to completely transform how media and advertising industries work. But it will remain on both industries’ margins if it fails to overcome skepticism and even hostility from consumers, publishers, and advertisers.
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| Nov 22, 2024
Additional users in more app categories give advertisers options. More users in grocery, games, dating, banking, and other categories may lead to better first-party data for advertisers and more diverse mobile app ad inventory, which currently is dominated by the triopoly of Meta, Google, and Amazon.
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| Sep 28, 2023
On today’s podcast episode, we discuss the big questions Meta is hearing from advertisers, the interplay of analytics and marketing, and the argument for removing the distinction between brand and performance marketing. Tune in to the discussion with Vice President and Principal Analyst Jasmine Enberg and Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Analytics at Meta Alex Schultz.
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| Nov 21, 2024
As AI-powered AR glasses become more commonplace and as spatial computing platforms mature, new channels for advertising and consumer engagement will be created—through gamified experiences, for example. AI makes TV searchable and smarter. Google brings Gemini to the big screen.
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| Jan 24, 2025
Make the argument for prioritizing digital ad channels. Justify making mobile a central focus of digital ad strategy. Highlight growth potential of CTV advertising. Illustrate the importance of differentiating ad strategies by device and medium. More like this:. Viewers are streaming to CTV far faster than ad dollars are. Google will remain the top destination for ad spend in the generative AI era.
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| Aug 27, 2024
Cohort-based solutions use anonymized groups of consumers to create targeted ads and messaging, while universal IDs create a privacy-compliant way for advertisers to keep track of consumer behavior across the internet. Looking for privacy-compliant uses for first-party data? Marketers can turn to the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s seller-defined audiences or experiment with data clean rooms.
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| Jun 5, 2023
Ǵdz’s ad strategy has lessons for struggling publishers: The news outlet pivoted from third-party programmatic ads in January and has seen its CPMs jump 20%.
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| Jul 19, 2023
As cookies crumble, marketers are turning back to the basics of measurement, prioritizing deterministic data over probabilistic guesses. Learn how the focus on direct, consented consumer interactions is paving the way for more accurate and actionable advertising insights.
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(All Reddit users see ads, regardless of whether they have an account.). Reddit’s recent reliance on Google is a double-edged sword. Reddit’s user growth is largely the result of its increased prominence in organic search results on Google, making it easier for people to discover and begin using Reddit.
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Most D2C ad spend goes to Google and Facebook, but trends are shifting. US D2C brands were moving ad spend away from Facebook in H2 2022, according to Rockerbox, but Google and Facebook still made up around two-thirds of all US D2C ad spend. Spend on TikTok was growing slowly, but its share of overall spend is still minimal in comparison to the tech giants. 5. D2C could threaten retail media.
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| Jun 27, 2023