[1] Google Had Its Day In Court. Now, It’s Amazon’s Turn
Google avoided a breakup of its ads business, while the FTC is suing Amazon for overcharging advertisers. Increased regulatory scrutiny could force Amazon to alter pricing and auction mechanisms, so advertisers should monitor potential cost changes and prepare compliance adjustments.
The lawsuit against Amazon for overcharging advertisers could alter their pricing and auction models, requiring us to monitor our main competitor's actions closely and consider how we can offer more transparent cost structures to our merchants.
SEO and PPC are sitting on each other’s best insights
The article outlines how SEO and PPC teams can share their respective data and insights, allowing organic keyword research to inform paid bidding and ad copy, which in turn boosts CTR and ROI. Advertisers are encouraged to integrate reporting across both channels to create a seamless optimization loop.
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Limited Ad Serving: Why Google Ads suddenly show less often
Google’s Limited Ad Serving feature reduces ad impressions when factors such as quality score, budget caps, or policy violations trigger restrictions. Advertisers should use the account diagnostics tool to identify the limiting factors and improve bids, creative quality, and policy compliance to restore delivery.
Google's "Limited Ad Serving" feature highlights how quality scores and budget caps restrict ad impressions, suggesting we can apply similar diagnostic thinking to our RPP-Ex budget CAPs and general ad quality management across products like TDA-EXP to better guide merchants towards improved performance.
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How to build a defensible SEO budget for 2027
The guide proposes a framework that combines search volume forecasts, competitor analysis, and algorithm change risk to build a defensible SEO budget for 2027 and beyond. Marketers can run scenario simulations and benchmark KPIs to justify spend, measure ROI, and adjust allocations dynamically.
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Otonaru's Podcast Ad Network Surpasses ¥200M in Monthly Audio Ad Inventory
Otonaru reports that its podcast advertising network has exceeded ¥200 million in monthly audio ad inventory, indicating a sizable and growing channel for advertisers. This scale invites agencies and brands to consider allocating budget to podcast audio placements and to integrate the network into their media‑buying mix.
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Explanation of Joint Business Plan
Describes how advertisers enter multi‑year contracts with vendors, tying spend commitments to pricing, staffing, and product access. Highlights benefits for budget certainty and supply stability, as well as risks such as reduced flexibility and KPI alignment.
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Explaining total addressable market
The article explains how ad‑tech firms calculate total addressable market (TAM) and why different estimates arise. It shows how market‑share assumptions affect revenue forecasts, giving advertisers a more realistic benchmark for budget planning. Our team can use this insight to size ad inventory and set ROI targets more accurately.
Understanding how to accurately calculate Total Addressable Market (TAM) and the impact of market share assumptions on revenue forecasts is crucial for us to set more realistic ROI targets across all our ad products, including RPP-Ex recovery and TDA-EXP expansion, thereby improving the precision of our investment decisions for the FY27+ growth strategy.
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Explaining SERP
The piece breaks down the components of a search engine results page, clarifies which slots are paid, describes auction dynamics, and notes recent layout changes that affect visibility. Advertisers gain actionable guidance on bidding strategies and the importance of ad extensions to secure prime positions. Our team can leverage this knowledge to optimise search‑linked campaigns and improve placement efficiency.
The detailed explanation of SERP components, auction mechanisms, and layout changes affecting visibility provides valuable insights for us to optimize the logic of our search-linked ad products (RPP, RPP-EXP) and assist merchants in improving their bid strategies and ad copy to secure higher visibility and better performance.
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Explaining ARTF
This article introduces the IAB Tech Lab’s Agentic Real Time Framework (ARTF), a container that lets bidders run custom code during real‑time auctions, and discusses current adoption and technical constraints. It provides advertisers and SSPs with a compliant way to implement advanced bidding logic, such as AI‑driven adjustments. Our team can explore ARTF to enhance bid customisation while maintaining transparency.
IAB Tech Lab's ARTF, which enables custom code execution during bidding for compliant AI-driven logic, is a framework we should explore to optimize bidding for dynamic ad products like RPP-Ex and TDA-EXP, while also enhancing transparency for our merchants.
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The Stack: AI & Aftershocks
The article surveys recent regulatory actions affecting major tech platforms, including EU scrutiny of generative AI, an advertising lawsuit against Amazon, and Google’s legal victory. These developments signal tighter compliance requirements and potential shifts in ad‑inventory availability for agencies. Our team should monitor these trends to anticipate policy changes that could impact media‑buying strategies.
Increased regulation on major tech platforms signals stricter compliance requirements and potential shifts in ad inventory supply, prompting us to continuously evaluate these policy trends and their impact on our purchasing strategies for external media collaborations (RPP-Ex, TDA-EXP) and AI-driven product development (TDA).
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[8] Hakuhodo DY ONE Expands Programmatic TV CM Distribution to Yomiuri TV and Chukyo TV, Reaching 70 Million People
Hakuhodo DY ONE expanded programmatic TV commercial distribution to Yomiuri TV and Chukyo TV, reaching a combined audience of 70 million. The move advances TV ad programmatic capabilities, allowing advertisers to compare reach and performance across markets with new measurement tools.
Hakuhodo DY ONE's expansion of programmatic TV CM delivery highlights the accelerating trend of programmatic and real-time measurement in traditional media, underscoring the need for us to further enhance transparent performance measurement and reporting (FY26 Priority #3) across all our ad products to maximize ROI for advertisers (Axis 1).
[9] iMobile Provides Free Support to Publishers for Implementing Google ‘Priority Source’ Button
iMobile is offering publishers free assistance to implement Google’s ‘Priority Source’ button, citing cases where CTR doubled. Advertisers can leverage this button to gain higher placement in search results, improving click‑through rates.
i-mobile's support for Google's "Preferred Source" button and its reported CTR improvements underscore the importance of enhancing ad display priority in search results; we should explore leveraging such priority mechanisms when partnering with Google for RPP-Ex external media and consider offering similar features on our own platform.