Why Liquid Death’s media chief is determined to break away from LiveRamp
Liquid Death’s media chief is voicing concerns over privacy, cost, and performance of LiveRamp’s identity graph, and is exploring alternative providers or building an in‑house solution. The growing emphasis on reducing third‑party dependence highlights the need for diversified ID and clean‑room capabilities.
The trend of advertisers reducing reliance on third-party identity graphs like LiveRamp and seeking in-house solutions due to privacy, cost, and performance concerns suggests that we must strengthen Rakuten's first-party data and cleanroom capabilities, providing transparency and control to advertisers, which is essential for enhancing the reliability of external integration ad products like RPP-EXP and TDA-EXP.
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Google sends notifications for site reputation abuse policy manual actions that don’t apply in the European Economic Area
Google now sends manual‑action notifications for site‑reputation abuse even when the policy does not apply in the EEA. This creates unnecessary alerts for advertisers operating outside the region, adding operational overhead.
Google's practice of sending policy violation notices to non-applicable regions suggests that in our communications with advertisers, we need to clarify the accuracy and scope of information to help merchants avoid unnecessary actions and support efficient operations.
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Google Ads Search terms match type vs Search terms match type (Keywords)
Google Ads released updated guidance on keyword match types, clarifying the behavior of broad, phrase, and exact match. Advertisers must understand how match‑type selection impacts delivery precision and cost, and adjust settings accordingly.
Google Ads' release of detailed guidance on search ad match types indicates that for RPP, our main search-linked ad product, we need to strengthen detailed information provision and support to help merchants select appropriate keyword match types and optimize ad delivery accuracy and cost efficiency.
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Amazon adds over 100 Alexa for Shopping functions
Amazon announced more than 100 new Alexa voice commands focused on shopping, enabling product search, add‑to‑cart, order‑status checks and personalized recommendations. This broadens the voice‑commerce ecosystem and gives advertisers a fresh touchpoint to reach consumers via voice assistants. It also hints at potential integration with Amazon Advertising for voice‑based ad placements.
Amazon's significant expansion of Alexa's shopping features, extending the voice commerce ecosystem and voice-based ad placements, suggests that in our future ad product strategy, we must consider new consumer touchpoints and advertising opportunities via voice assistants from a long-term perspective.
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Nowcast provides “DataLens corporate sales” and “DataLens CRE sales” to Mitsubishi Estate Development
Data analytics platform Nowcast will supply its DataLens corporate and CRE (commercial‑real‑estate) services to Mitsubishi Estate Development, enabling large‑scale data aggregation, visualization and audience segmentation for business insight. Advertisers can leverage this enriched data to conduct more precise targeting and performance measurement.
Nowcast's example of providing large-scale data aggregation and audience segmentation for advertisers to use in precise targeting and performance measurement suggests that we need to extract deeper business insights from Rakuten's first-party data, enhancing targeting accuracy for dynamic ad products and strengthening our value proposition for brand budget acquisition.
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Profiling: Automated Processing of Personal Data and the Legal Basis for Targeted Ads
The article defines profiling as the automated analysis of personal data to predict traits, interests or behaviors, forming the legal foundation for targeted advertising under privacy law. It outlines consent, transparency, and compliance requirements, warning of heightened risk when misuse occurs.
The emphasis on the legal basis for profiling in targeted advertising and the requirements for consent, transparency, and compliance underscores that in developing and operating data-driven ad products like RPP and TDA-EXP, we must re-recognize that appropriate personal data processing and privacy protection are foundational for business continuity, and thoroughly manage risks.
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Contextual Integrity: Applying a Privacy Theory to Ad Targeting
Nissenbaum’s “contextual integrity” framework is presented as a method to judge whether data flows respect the normative expectations of a given context. Applying it to ad targeting helps mitigate regulatory scrutiny by ensuring that targeting practices align with contextual norms.
The concept of applying the "contextual integrity" framework to ad targeting to ensure data usage aligns with normative expectations suggests that for targeting in RPP and TDA-EXP, which leverage Rakuten's first-party data, we must consider ethical and contextual appropriateness in addition to legal compliance to gain user trust.
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Data (Use and Access) Act: UK’s 2025 GDPR Amendments and Advertising Regulation
The UK’s Data (Use and Access) Act, effective 2025, amends GDPR and PECR, introduces cookie‑consent exemptions, and creates a new commission overseeing digital advertising. Advertisers must revise consent collection and data‑use reporting, with stricter penalties for non‑compliance.
The UK's 2025 Data Utilization and Access Act, amending GDPR, highlights the evolving and stricter digital advertising regulations, including cookie consent exemptions and a new oversight committee, emphasizing that we must continuously review consent acquisition and data usage reporting processes for external delivery products like RPP-EXP and TDA-EXP to adapt to the international regulatory environment.
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DRCF: Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum and Coordination of Advertising Rules
The Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) brings together the CMA, ICO, Ofcom and FCA to harmonise rules on AI agents, data, competition and safety. Its decisions will shape standards for AI‑driven media buying and data sharing in advertising.
The Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum's (DRCF) efforts to harmonize rules on AI agents and data suggest that for AI-powered ad products like TDA, we must monitor future standards for AI-driven media buying and data sharing, and proactively address regulatory requirements to maintain competitiveness.
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DPIA: Data Protection Impact Assessment and Risk Management for Advertising Data Processing
The piece walks through GDPR Article 35’s requirement to conduct a DPIA before high‑risk processing, focusing on profiling and behavioral targeting in ads. It stresses documenting risks and implementing mitigation measures.
The GDPR's DPIA (Data Protection Impact Assessment) requirement emphasizes that for high-risk data processing like profiling and behavioral targeting in advertising, we must document the potential privacy risks of Rakuten's dynamic ad products and implement appropriate mitigation measures, which is essential for compliance and ensuring trust.
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UK ICO puts 30 questions to AI agent builders before November 20
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office released a 30‑question questionnaire for developers of AI agents, covering session isolation, tamper‑evident logs, and agent identifiers, explicitly mentioning ad‑tech. Responses are due by 20 Nov, signalling tighter compliance expectations for AI‑powered advertising tools.
The UK ICO's issuance of a questionnaire for AI agent developers, explicitly mentioning ad tech, suggests that for products like TDA, where AI is a key differentiator, we need to promptly address stricter compliance requirements, including technical measures for session separation and tamper-proof logs.
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Google AI Mode gains a fourth ad slot below some answers
Google added a fourth ad slot beneath certain AI Mode SERP answers, featuring ads from HubSpot, Yext, Siteimprove, and eintelligenceweb. The rollout scope and permanence are not yet disclosed, but the new placement creates premium inventory within AI‑generated search results.
Google's addition of a new ad slot within AI mode search results suggests that for RPP, our core search-linked ad product, we need to consider the creation of advertising opportunities within AI-generated content and effective placement strategies in the future.
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Criteo net income drops 85% as third-quarter revenue falls 11%
Criteo announced an 11 % decline in Q3 revenue and an 85 % plunge in net income, driven by budget cuts from large advertisers and fashion brands. The company maintains its 2026 outlook and aims to revive growth in 2027 through CTV and ChatGPT‑related ad offerings.
The decline in revenue and profit for Criteo, a key partner, suggests that in accelerating TDA-EXP Criteo campaigns and merchant retention, we must consider external ad market volatility risks, monitoring their strategic shift towards CTV and ChatGPT-related ads while optimizing partnerships and diversifying risks.
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Amazon advertisers gain purchase audiences from Attain's 14 million consumers
Attain offers daily‑updated purchase‑based audience segments covering retailer, category and online/offline channels for 14 M consumers, making them available to Amazon advertisers (use in the DVA+ tier is still unclear). This gives advertisers the ability to target users with demonstrated purchase intent.
Attain's example of providing Amazon advertisers with detailed purchase-based audience segments suggests that we, too, can contribute to improved advertiser performance by further delving into Rakuten's first-party purchase data to enable more precise targeting for products like RPP-EXP and RDA.
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Microsoft Clarity puts Shopify and WooCommerce products in Copilot and Bing
Microsoft now allows Shopify and WooCommerce merchants to push their catalogs to the Microsoft Merchant Center, where the items appear in Bing search and the Copilot assistant. Agent tracking currently supports only Google, OpenAI and Anthropic.
Microsoft's integration of Shopify and WooCommerce product catalogs into Bing Search and Copilot indicates that AI assistants are becoming increasingly important as channels for product discovery and advertising, suggesting that for RPP, our search-linked ad product, we need to consider potential collaborations with such AI channels in our future strategy.
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Meta’s commercial‑use terms spark global media backlash over AI content
Meta announced new commercial‑use terms that forbid the unauthorized use of its content for AI training, prompting a coordinated protest from media organisations and a postponement of the rollout. The change could limit the data sources used for AI‑generated ad creative.
Media backlash over Meta's AI learning content terms highlights copyright and usage rights challenges for data sources used in AI-generated ad creatives, suggesting that for TDA, our AI-driven product, we must recognize these issues and establish appropriate data governance and IP strategies.
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Shinka raises €1.9 M seed round to bring mediation to digital out‑of‑home advertising
Shinka is building an agnostic mediation layer for video DOOH ads, enabling advertisers to buy across multiple DOOH inventories through a single interface. The €1.9 M seed round was led by European angel investors.
The development of a mediation platform that unifies multiple video DOOH ad inventories suggests that for external deliveries like RPP-Ex and TDA-EXP, we should consider a programmatic integration strategy to streamline access and operations across various partner media through a single interface.
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Sigma Software Presents UI Contribution at IAB Tech Lab International Summit
Sigma Software showcased new UI components for Seller Agents at the IAB Tech Lab International Summit 2026, aiming to improve the interface between SSPs and DSPs. Participation in standards development is expected to enhance operational efficiency for advertisers when selecting platforms.
The announcement of UI component improvements at IAB Tech Lab, aiming to enhance operational efficiency for advertisers choosing platforms, suggests that for our pending cross-product reporting and RPP-EXP self-serve features, providing intuitive and standard-compliant UI/UX is essential for improving merchant convenience and promoting adoption.
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GumGum Launches Global Agency Partnerships Team
GumGum announced a dedicated agency partnerships team to help advertisers and agencies leverage data‑driven sports advertising and brand mindset solutions. The move supports agencies in expanding AI‑enabled, programmatic offerings.
GumGum's launch of an agency partnership team to support data-driven sports advertising and AI-powered programmatic offerings suggests that for our brand budget acquisition (Priority 4), we must strengthen agency collaborations and enhance our ability to propose brand solutions, including AI-powered ads like TDA and RDA.
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Mediaocean Expands Prisma Direct to Search with Microsoft Advertising Integration
Mediaocean completed integration of its Prisma Direct system with Microsoft Advertising, enabling DSPs to buy search inventory directly. This creates a unified workflow for managing search and display budgets and facilitates more efficient allocation.
The integration of Mediaocean with Microsoft Advertising, enabling a unified workflow for managing search and display ad budgets, suggests that we should aim for more efficient budget allocation and reporting across search ads like RPP and display ads like RDA and TDA-EXP, to provide merchants with an Amazon-like consolidated performance view.
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Publica and Optable Help Publishers Enrich Bid Signals and Increase Revenue
Integral Ad Science reports that Publica’s partnership with Optable enables CTV publishers to enrich their bidding signals and support multiple identity providers. Improved signal quality raises the value of ad inventory and drives higher revenue, underscoring the growing importance of data signals in programmatic markets.
The case of Publica and Optable's partnership enhancing bid signals and increasing revenue for CTV publishers suggests that to maximize the value of Rakuten's ad inventory, we must focus on improving the accuracy of bid signals for external delivery products like RPP-Ex and TDA-EXP, supporting first-party data and multiple ID providers.
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