Meta Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns

Meta says “trust the machine” – but marketers are finding out that automated ad platforms, including Advantage+, don’t always know best.

Retracing DPG Media’s journey to disentangle itself from the influence of Google’s ad platform and compete for direct ad budgets.

Having nipped at Meta’s and Google’s heels for years, Pinterest is finished with being the underdog. It’s been getting very “serious” about its investments in lower-funnel advertising products, says Pinterest CRO Bill Watkins.

Meta is testing several new generative AI tools, including one that can animate static images and turn them into full-blown video ads.

The EU is preparing charges against Alphabet for breaching the Digital Markets Act. Plus: Meta’s ad platform has been quite buggy lately.

In today’s newsletter: Google Demand Gen is the industry’s latest over-attribution controversy; data from third-party brokers might not be worth it; and The Trade Desk launches a CTV operating system.

In today’s newsletter: Pinterest launches an ad optimization solution with familiar-sounding name; consumers can’t live without YouTube; and ad tech leaders try out trade journalism.

In today’s newsletter: Why Apple’s SKAdNetwork 4.0 is a bust; advertisers are irked by Google’s optimization-driven demand for different creative formats; The Trade Desk releases a baffling list of top 100 publishers.

Yahoo’s new Blueprint feature for its DSP offers midflight optimization recommendations to meet campaign goals and help advertisers determine a person’s lifetime value and likelihood to convert.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rage Against The ML Google and Meta are all-in on machine-learning-based ad products that assign creative and optimization controls to the platform. But tools like Google’s Performance Max and Meta’s Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns have been rushed onstage – and they’re not ready for […]