The news: Amazon has quietly begun to weave sponsored ads—its core search ad format—into Rufus, the generative AI-powered chatbot it launched earlier this year, per an Adweek report based on Amazon Ads’ September product releases.
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| Sep 10, 2024
The fine represented about 1.29% of Google’s 2018 EU search revenue. Not out of the woods: The court’s decision is a win for Google, but it doesn’t affect the company’s other lawsuits and fines in the EU.
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| Sep 18, 2024
The feature, which populates answers to searches directly on the results page, makes it more difficult to measure search ad impressions or return on ad spend. US search ad spend will grow 11.1% this year, reaching $124.59 billion, according to our March 2024 forecast.
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| Sep 13, 2024
Google’s Q4 revenue fell short of estimates for the first time in two years: Strong growth in AI and cloud services highlights its shift beyond ads.
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| Feb 5, 2025
The second-largest digital advertiser among industries will post strong ad spending growth in 2024, but deceleration is on the horizon, and its various subcategories have starkly different outlooks.
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| Oct 2, 2024
OpenAI rolls out free search to capture shoppers during a peak ecommerce season, offering price comparisons and product links just when consumers need them most
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| Dec 17, 2024
It's made recent just general search initiatives and search ad initiatives. So early this year it launched an image search feature for TikTok shop. So directly linked to the products that people will be searching for, which I think was pretty smart. And then in September, so a few short months ago, it introduced the its TikTok search ads campaign.
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| Jan 6, 2025
Use this chart: Marketers can use this chart to align their investments with companies that hold positive consumer sentiment, whether it’s through retail media ads on Amazon, search ads on Google, or connected TV (CTV) ads on Netflix. Related ĢAV reports:. US Amazon Ecommerce Forecast 2024 (Subscription required). Gen Z Technology and Media Preferences 2024 (Subscription required).
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| Sep 20, 2024
Some advertisers’ budgets are shifting: Paid media traffic rises for Google and Pinterest after TikTok’s brief shutdown and Meta’s moderation changes.
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| Jan 21, 2025
Meanwhile, Faire, an online wholesale marketplace, introduced its first ad solution, sponsored search ads. These “Promoted Listings” help smaller brands without resources to spend much on on product promotion. “The reason we’re going this path into advertising is to help our brands grow,” Faire’s chief product officer Ami Vora told Retail Brew. “We know that’s hard when you’re a small business.”.
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| Sep 16, 2024
We forecast that its share of the search advertising market will fall below 50% for the first time this year, and a potential breakup could lead to even sharper contractions. Harris’ stance may lead to stronger enforcement aimed at promoting competition, benefiting open-web platforms. Harris is more likely to push for oversight to maintain brand-safe environments under Section 230.
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| Oct 30, 2024
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I think long-term, a search engine also gives Meta new services to monetize and through search ads specifically. And that could help boost its revenues, also put more pressure on Google because we already know that social has become a major search tool.
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| Nov 7, 2024
But strong early growth of products such as TikTok’s Smart Performance Campaign and social search ads shows that advertiser approaches to social networks are far from calcifying. Differentiation delivers growth for social’s second tier. For years, smaller social networks did their best to keep up with Meta and TikTok by bolting features such as Stories and short-form video onto their platforms.
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| Dec 20, 2024
Search ads on Apple’s App Store have rapidly increased in importance. Apple’s introduction of ATT in 2021 has contributed to the growth of its search ad revenues. YoY growth in Apple install ad spending slowed to 18.3% in 2023. But that figure was still well above the mean and helped Apple’s share of the app install market increase to 23.2% last year.
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| Mar 26, 2024
Search ads and retail media to aid Western Europe advertisers: Economic uncertainty to bolster use of ad channels that can deliver solid returns in 2023.
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| Jan 27, 2023
The startup is building momentum to challenge Google but faces IP hurdles in the fierce AI search landscape.
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| Nov 6, 2024
From a budget perspective, social search advertising is still nascent. While social search ad formats are growing, they’re not eating away at traditional search budgets quite yet, according to interviews we conducted with industry experts. Across top platforms, search advertising is limited without functions like keyword targeting and the ability to buy these ads on their own.
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| Feb 20, 2024
Digital’s share of total media ad spending will hit almost 78% in 2024 and exceed even this high number in some industries. This report looks at some factors that correlate with an industry’s digital spending.
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| Sep 26, 2024
Apple’s services include music-, game-, and video-streaming plans; search revenue from Google; and product warranties that together accounted for $24.21 billion in revenue in its fiscal Q3, a 14.1% increase YoY. Apple Intelligence will come standard on iPhone 16 models, but we expect wider subscription options as these features are refined over the next two years.
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| Sep 6, 2024
Utilization of historical data to determine ideal bid ranges for platforms like Google AdWords. Real-time content swapping to cater to fluctuating audiences and contexts. How easy is it to implement? Existing tools make implementation relatively easy. Here's an overview of key aspects of implementation:.
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| Oct 15, 2024
Search ads on social are still nascent, so marketers must use organic tactics to appear in results. Users are treating social platforms like search engines. They’re still using Google and other more traditional forms of search. But many users—particularly Gen Zers—prefer to start their searches on other platforms, including Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
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| Jun 5, 2024
Instead of casting a wide net on social platforms and pursuing the creators with the highest follower accounts, marketers are now more focused on resonating with the right audience.
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| Jan 21, 2025
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