Target Cautiously Considers Placing Digital Screens for Ads in Stores
Target is exploring the use of in‑store digital signage as an advertising medium, but remains cautious due to concerns over measurement accuracy and ROI. For now, the retailer prefers to reach shoppers via mobile devices rather than investing heavily in on‑site screens.
Target's cautious stance on in-store digital signage ads due to measurement and ROI challenges reminds us to further leverage the advantages of our digital-first approach in e-commerce advertising.
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How Amazon turned its Thursday Night Football into a two‑pronged pitch to capture ad dollars
Amazon leveraged its Thursday Night Football broadcast to offer advertisers both an endemic package tied to the sports event and a non‑endemic package aimed at broader audiences, seeking to capture both brand and performance budgets. This illustrates Amazon’s push to expand its ad ecosystem beyond e‑commerce.
Amazon's strategy to leverage sports broadcasts for both brand and performance ad budgets indicates the importance for us to develop diversified content partnerships and new ad packages to capture non-GMS brand budgets (Axis 2).
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The Verge switches up its audience team to prepare for Google Zero
The Verge has restructured its audience development team to prioritize loyal readers over sheer traffic in anticipation of Google Zero’s rollout. This move signals that publishers expect a shift in audience measurement and ad revenue models, prompting advertisers to move from pure impression‑based metrics to loyalty‑focused targeting.
As publishers shift towards cultivating loyal readers in anticipation of Google Zero, it underscores the need for us to strengthen ad targeting and measurement based on first-party data and loyalty metrics to offer advertisers higher quality user engagement.
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Media Buying Briefing: How are the 2nd tier holdcos separating themselves from the Big Three?
Mid‑size holding companies and independent agencies are differentiating themselves from Publicis, Omnicom and WPP by offering proprietary data insights, performance‑based pricing models, and bespoke technology platforms. This creates new, flexible buying options for advertisers who no longer have to rely solely on the traditional big three.
The fact that second-tier agencies are differentiating themselves with unique data and performance-based pricing highlights an opportunity for us, as we pursue brand budget acquisition (Axis 2), to strengthen differentiated data solutions and flexible pricing models in our agency partnerships, collaboratively delivering value to advertisers.
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How Amazon Ads Plans To Make Programmatic Simple Without Taking Control From Marketers
Amazon Ads VP Kelly MacLean outlines new programmatic features that automate bidding and budget allocation while preserving marketer control through manual override options. The aim is to cut complexity and cost without ceding full decision‑making to the platform.
Amazon Ads' approach to balance automation with marketer control in programmatic advertising suggests that for RPP-EXP's self-serve features and managed ads like TDA-EXP, it is crucial to design UI/UX that reduces complexity while allowing advertisers granular adjustments.
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Meta’s New TOS Dubbed A Total POS; Another Nail In Search Traffic’s Coffin
Meta has revised its Terms of Service, imposing restrictions on certain ad practices and data use under a “Total POS” framework that could erode traffic previously sourced from search. Advertisers must now ensure compliance and explore alternative channels.
The potential for Meta's TOS revision to reduce search traffic reminds us of the importance of avoiding excessive reliance on specific platforms for our external media strategy, including TDA-EXP, and instead diversifying ad delivery across multiple channels while ensuring compliance.
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Google Local Services Ads removes featured professionals
Google eliminates the “Featured Professionals” slot from Local Services Ads and tightens eligibility criteria, reducing visibility for many local service advertisers. The change forces advertisers to consider other ad formats or platforms for local reach.
Google's removal of a specific local service ad format, forcing advertisers to seek alternatives, presents an opportunity for us to more clearly present effective advertising opportunities within the Rakuten ecosystem, such as RPP and CA, to local small and medium-sized merchants and help them acquire customers.
→ Read on searchengineland.com
Meta's per‑creative audiences force ad sets to stay open to all genders
Meta’s new per‑creative audience feature automatically expands ad sets to cover all genders from age 25 to 65, reducing gender‑specific targeting granularity. Advertisers must adjust to broader delivery and monitor performance shifts.
The reduced granularity in gender targeting due to Meta's audience expansion feature emphasizes the importance for ads leveraging Meta, such as TDA-EXP, to evolve our AI-generated creative (TDA's strength) to resonate with broader audiences and maintain performance.
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LinkedIn tests paying US creators for pre-roll ads on their videos
LinkedIn is piloting a program that pays U.S. creators a share of revenue from pre‑roll ads shown before their videos, and also lets Business Premium members sell one‑on‑one calls, though the platform’s revenue split hasn’t been disclosed. This creates a new video ad inventory for advertisers on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn's test of video ad revenue sharing with creators suggests that for our "Influencer x Video" strategy (FY26 Priority 5), we need to explore building an attractive creator ecosystem, diversifying video ad inventory within our platform, and seeking new revenue models.
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Magnite gains bidder seat in CloudX mobile app auctions
Publishers on CloudX can now plug Magnite’s DV+ demand into app auctions via an OMSDK‑certified SDK. No fill, price, or revenue data is disclosed. This adds a new SSP to the mobile app ecosystem, potentially increasing inventory for advertisers while limiting transparency.
Magnite's acquisition of a new bidder seat in CloudX mobile app auctions indicates diversification in mobile app ad inventory and changes in the programmatic supply chain; this suggests the importance for us to continuously review optimal partnership strategies for external media collaborations like RPP-EXP and TDA-EXP, while ensuring transparency and quality.
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Safari 27 blocks identity firms that turn email addresses into tracking IDs
Safari 27 introduces a domain‑level block for identity providers that convert email addresses into tracking IDs, affecting iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS with no exceptions. Advertisers can no longer rely on deterministic email‑based IDs and must shift to probabilistic or first‑party matching solutions.
Safari 27's blocking of email-based tracking IDs emphasizes the increasing need for us to strengthen first-party data utilization and integrate new approaches like probabilistic matching and contextual targeting into our external media strategies such as RPP-EXP and TDA-EXP, especially in a post-third-party-cookie era.
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Trade Desk claims 41% higher ROAS for retail data, without a sample size
Trade Desk asserts that campaigns using its retail data delivered 125% higher ROAS in APAC and 150% in EMEA, translating to a 41% overall uplift, but the claim lacks disclosed sample sizes or validation methodology. The data suggests retail‑data segments can boost performance, yet the reliability of the numbers is uncertain.
Trade Desk's claim of ROAS improvement through retail data, despite lacking sample size details, suggests the importance for us to build concrete measurement data and success stories for products like RPP-EXP and TDA-EXP that leverage our rich first-party data, thereby increasing their persuasiveness to advertisers.
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Targeted ads delivered spyware to 45 devices through a vendor Google listed
Citizen Lab identified that Discover‑Tech, a vendor listed by Google since 2020, served targeted ads that installed zero‑click spyware on 45 Al Jazeera devices. Google promptly removed the vendor from its whitelist, highlighting supply‑chain security risks in ad delivery ecosystems.
The incident of spyware delivery via a Google ad vendor highlights that supply chain security risks and ensuring brand safety are critically important within our own ad delivery ecosystem, particularly for products involving external partnerships like RPP-EXP and TDA-EXP.
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What’s MY Role in Adopting ACIF’s Universal Ad ID?
IAB Tech Lab explains the ACIF Universal Ad ID (UAI), outlining practical steps and benefits for advertisers and platforms adopting the identifier. UAI aims to improve viewability and measurement accuracy for streaming ads, serving as a post‑cookie replacement, and industry‑wide adoption would simplify cross‑media effectiveness tracking.
IAB Tech Lab's promotion of Universal Ad ID is crucial for improving cross-media measurement post-third-party cookies, and we should consider aligning with industry standards and developing solutions for future cross-product reporting (FY26 Priority 3) and enhancing measurement accuracy for products like RPP-EXP and TDA-EXP.
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An Interview With Adform’s John Piccone
John Piccone, regional president for the Americas at Adform, discusses the latest trends in privacy‑compliant identity solutions and AI‑driven automated bidding. He highlights Adform’s post‑cookie ID products and machine‑learning creative optimization tools aimed at boosting advertisers’ ROAS.
Adform's expansion of privacy-compliant ID solutions and AI-driven automated bidding and creative optimization suggests that we should accelerate technological development in evolving AI creatives for TDA and enhancing data utilization strategies for RPP-EXP and TDA-EXP's ROAS maximization, supporting advertiser performance in a cookie-less environment.
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Shanon offers free email delivery tool “SHANON MAIL” up to 3,000 recipients, unlimited sends
Shanon has launched a free tier of its “SHANON MAIL” service, allowing advertisers to send unlimited emails to up to 3,000 contacts. The offering includes basic delivery, segment targeting, and open‑click measurement, with an upsell path to a paid MA solution. This enables small‑to‑mid‑size advertisers and agencies to experiment with email campaigns at no cost and collect performance data.
Shanon's free email marketing tool, allowing SMB advertisers to cost-effectively test campaigns with measurement, suggests the importance of providing cost-effective trial opportunities and simple, user-friendly self-serve features to lower the barrier for our advertising products, especially for new introductions like TDA-EXP.
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