Social Facebook introduces on-Facebook destination for Automotive Inventory Ads (AIA) Facebook says that advertisers driving AIA campaigns to an on-Facebook ad destination are having a reduced cost-per-lead by 82%.
Video Amazon creates Amazon Kids+, an app with books, videos, and games Amazon says Amazon Kids+ offers more than 20,000 books, movies, Audible books, games, and Spanish-language content designed just for kids.
Video Google launches YouTube Shorts, first in India YouTube Shorts are user-generated short videos with 15 or less seconds. TikTok was banned in India this year, in June.
Social Facebook to introduce ad limits per page starting in February 2021 Facebook will enforce the ad limits from February 2021 through Summer 2021.
Video Google to introduce engaged-view conversions by the end of the year EVC (engaged-view conversions) are counted when a user does not click on a video ad but watches at least 10 seconds of a skippable ad.
Display Taboola and Outbrain merger called off Nearly one year after of announcing a merger deal, Taboola and Outbrain today called off the deal publicly. Sources said that the confidential deal has expired last month without an extension of the agreement.
Search Microsoft launches a new robots.txt tester tool for Bing robots.txt is a file on the domain/subdomain that informs robots/crawlers/spiders which sections of a website should not be processed or scanned.
Data What is Consent Mode? When consent is not granted, no new cookies pertaining to advertising may be written.
Video Twitch launches Watch Parties with Prime users watching movies & TV shows together Amazon acquired Twitch in August, 2014.
Data Microsoft launches dynamic Remarketing lists and in-market audiences in France & Germany In-market audiences include more than 100 French and more than 200 German audiences.
Data Episerver to acquire Optimizely Episerver is a company expert in content management founded in Stockholm back in 1994.
Data Experian rolls out an address, email, and phone validation in Salesforce Commerce Cloud Experian for B2C Commerce: Data Quality is available for $500 USD per user per year.
Social TikTok certifies 19 companies to help advertisers 19 companies are certified by TikTok to help advertisers with campaign management, creative development, branded effects, and measurement.
Display Microsoft Advertising rolls out new UI for all advertisers The new UI was tested by multiple advertisers in the last 10 months.
Display Portuguese publishers adopt Xandr Monetize Nonio today has two million registered users via a Single Sign On (SSO). In 2017, Facebook had around 6 million users in Portugal.
Retail Shopping Ads can now be displayed to users in multiple countries sharing the same language Google Merchant Center is available in 94 countries, and in 78 currencies.
Display What is Custom Bidding in DV360? In the image, a use case where the Custom Bidding optimizes for weighted conversions with different floodlights.
Data Google introduces 13 new conversion categories in Google Ads Google will automatically apply the conversion categories if advertisers haven’t already accepted them. Advertisers have until October 15th to review the suggested conversion categories.
Video Facebook Watch reaches 1.25 billion unique visitors per month Last year, Google said it had 2 billion monthly users on YouTube.
Data Google launches Consent Mode to enable conversions without cookies Consent Mode is available for advertisers that do not choose to use TCF v2.0.
Social Microsoft Advertising adds LinkedIn Profile targeting LinkedIn Profile targeting covers more than 100 industries and 80,000 companies.
Social TikTok’s competitors capture 44% share of the US video-sharing app installs in August Sensor Tower says TikTok’s rivals are Triller and Likee.
Data Comscore starts providing digital audience measurement to Nextdoor Comscore Plan Metrix Multi-Platform combines consumers’ desktop and mobile behavior with information about their lifestyles, interests, attitudes, demographics and behaviors.
Search DuckDuckGo reaches 2 billion search queries in one month 2 billion search queries last month represented a growth of 30% year over year for DuckDuckGo. 2 billion search queries per month are 65 million daily search queries on average.
