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Prime Video Unveils New Content Slate for 2024

Amazon's Prime Video is gearing up for a thrilling year of entertainment in 2024, with a diverse lineup of new series, new seasons, and new movies set to captivate audiences worldwide.

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CMOs Must Start Experimenting with AI Now to Prepare for the Cookieless Future

Google is advising chief marketing officers (CMOs) to start planning for a future without third-party cookies, by embracing AI in a Cookieless environment.

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Facebook introduces Link History for data targeting

Facebook this month has introduced a new feature called "Link History" that tracks the websites users visit on the Facebook mobile browser, reported Search Engine Land. The feature is currently being rolled out globally and is available for both Android and iOS devices.

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Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) Explodes in Popularity During Holiday Season

BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later) usage also hit an all-time high, contributing $16.6 billion in online spend.

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Google Ads Expands Eligibility for Sports Betting Ads in Delaware

Google Ads yesterday announced it will now accept and run ads for sports betting from state-approved entities in Delaware.

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ESPN and NCAA Reach Media Rights Agreement

ESPN and the NCAA yesterday agreed to a new, eight-year media rights agreement worth $920 million. The deal is the most lucrative in the history of college sports.

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Chrome Begins Phasing Out Third-Party Cookies

Google Chrome yesterday began a phased rollout of its changes to cookie tracking, with the launch of Chrome Tracking Protection, which restricts third-party cookies by default, began rolling out to 1% of Chrome users globally.

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IAS launches Quality Attention in partnership with Lumen

Integral Ad Science (IAS) yesterday unveiled its Quality Attention™ measurement, a new product integrating media quality, eye-tracking data with machine learning to provide advertisers with actionable insights into how effectively their ads are capturing consumer attention.

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Renaming events in Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

Marketers using Google Analytics 4 (GA4) should be cautious about renaming events on the platform. While it might seem like a simple way to update event names, renaming events can lead to data skew and hinder your ability to track user behavior effectively.

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Google Universal Analytics 360 Sunset Timeline

Google this month announced changes regarding its Universal Analytics 360 platform providing a Universal Analytics 360 (UA360) Sunset Timeline.

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Unlock B2B Marketing Success with LinkedIn's Newsletter Recommendations

Despite the rise and fall of newsletter popularity, B2B marketers can still leverage this traditional marketing tool to reach their target audience and achieve their objectives. Tequia Burt, Editor in Chief, LinkedIn Collective & LinkedIn Ads Blog, wrote this week how.

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Demystifying CRM: A Comprehensive Overview of Customer Relationship Management

CRM is an essential tool for marketing professionals in today's competitive landscape. It helps them build stronger customer relationships, gain actionable insights, automate marketing tasks, and measure the effectiveness of their campaigns.

Social

Bluesky unveils New Logo 🦋 and Public Web View

Bluesky, the open-source social media protocol, this week has unveiled a new logo and made its posts publicly accessible through a web view.

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How to avoid Unassigned Traffic in GA4

Many marketers continue to disregard these guidelines, resulting in an abundance of "unassigned traffic" in their GA4 reports.

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VideoPoet AI: The future of video creation is here

Unlike existing diffusion-based models, VideoPoet leverages the power of large language models (LLMs) to integrate multiple video generation capabilities within a single model, unlocking a new frontier in video creation.

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Europe's podcast and audiobook subscription service Podimo secures €44M in funding

Podimo this week secured €44 million in funding from The Danish Export and Investment Fund (EIFO), HighlandX, and Chr. Augustinus Fabrikker.

Social

Instagram Reels outperform all other video content across platforms, Emplifi research finds

The research found that Instagram Reels generated six times the reach of Instagram Stories and more than three times the median views of other Instagram video content.

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Account-based marketing (ABM)

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a strategic approach to business marketing that focuses on building personalized relationships with a select group of high-value accounts.

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Google updates Gambling and Games Policy in France

Google is making significant changes to its Gambling and Games policy in France, effective January 22, 2024. The most notable change is the removal of the reference to online casino. This means that advertisers will no longer be able to promote online casinos using Google Ads.

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Google expands Advertiser Verification options for Trade Names and DBAs

This change, effective December 2023, allow businesses to verify their DBA names when the DBA and the legal name are both present on the verification documentation.

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Microsoft Clarity Dashboard gets a Personalized Touch

Microsoft Clarity this week introduced new customizable features: Drag and drop to rearrange cards on the dashboard; Hide cards to remove them temporarily from view; Choose which tab to display by default for cards with multiple tabs.

Audio

Triton Digital U.S. Podcast Ranker for November

SiriusXM Podcast Network held onto its position as the #1 Sales Network, with an average of 43.7 million downloads and 13.2 million listeners each week. Wondery retained its #2 spot with an average of 27.1 million downloads and 7.5 million listeners, followed by Audacy Podcast Network.

Social

Reddit Ads Minimum Prices

Reddit Ads is a relatively new advertising platform that has quickly gained popularity among marketers. One question marketers often have is about the minimum prices for Reddit Ads. The answer to this question depends on the campaign objective that you choose.

Retail

Google Updates Identifier Exists [identifier_exists] Policy for Shopping Ads

Previously, offers with the Item issue Incorrect value: identifier exists [identifier_exists] would have been disapproved. However, as of December 2023, these offers will now receive a warning instead of a disapproval.

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The FTC proposes new changes to COPPA Rule

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today proposed new changes to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule) that would place new restrictions on the use and disclosure of children’s personal information.