Azerion wins Venatus as technology partner for gaming ad monetisation
Azerion has partnered with Venatus to combine audience data and delivery infrastructure for gaming ad monetisation. The collaboration gives game developers and advertisers broader programmatic inventory access, potentially boosting revenue in the European gaming ad market. Deal terms and volumes remain undisclosed.
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Google Local Services advertisers lose dashboard access 14 days after email
Google announced that Local Services advertisers will lose access to their management dashboard 14 days after notification, with budgets split weekly and manual bidding discontinued. U.S. home‑service firms must shift to automated bidding immediately, while non‑U.S. accounts will see the same change in 2027. This pushes further automation and may alter the platform’s revenue dynamics.
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Explaining RampID
RampID is LiveRamp’s pseudonymous identifier that lets advertisers match users across publishers and platforms without moving raw PII. It enables unified audience creation and more accurate measurement while respecting privacy, making it valuable for programmatic buying.
Pseudo-anonymous identifiers like LiveRamp's RampID, which enable privacy-preserving cross-platform user matching, represent a critical technological trend for us to monitor, as they are essential for enhancing audience integration and measurement accuracy in our external media partnerships.
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Explaining ID5
ID5 provides a universal advertising ID and identity graph to recognize users when third‑party cookies are unavailable. It offers a privacy‑compliant way to target and measure audiences across browsers and devices, helping advertisers maintain reach in a cookieless world.
As third-party cookies face deprecation, leveraging universal ad IDs and identity graphs like ID5 is a crucial direction for our external delivery products, including RPP-Ex and TDA-EXP, to maintain targeting accuracy, measurement, and reach while preserving privacy.
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Explaining Max CPC
Max CPC sets the highest price an advertiser will pay per click in auction‑based platforms. Recent platform trends are phasing it out in favor of automated bidding, which changes how advertisers budget and control costs. Understanding this shift is essential for campaign planning.
The platform trend of shifting from Max CPC towards automated bidding necessitates advertisers to rethink budget and cost control, indicating that we must consider this automation trend in our bidding strategies and operational designs, such as reviewing the RPP-Ex Multiplier and setting TDA-EXP budget thresholds.
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Three promotions later, the acronyms are still the same
The article lists common media‑buying acronyms used across channels, helping advertisers decode the terminology that appears in cross‑platform campaigns. Clear grasp of these terms enables more efficient media planning and smoother communication with agencies as the media ecosystem evolves.
As the media ecosystem grows complex, understanding industry-standard acronyms is crucial for smooth cross-platform planning and communication, therefore, we should focus even more on consistent terminology and clear explanations when providing integrated reports to merchants.
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