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A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

Brands without scalable first-party data are turning to retailers to connect directly with customers. At the same time, writes Andreas Reiffen, CEO of Crealytics, retailers are seeking ways to combat margin pressure, emulate Amazon’s extraordinary advertising success, deepen relationships with brand partners, and better understand their customers. Cue the retail media boom. 

Are public ad tech companies totally screwed? “Um, do you want the short answer?” said Rocco Strauss, a partner at independent equity research firm Arete Research. “Because the short answer is … yes,” he said.

If revenue falls in the metaverse, does it make a sound? For the first time in Meta’s history, it reported a year-over-year decline in total revenue, down 1% in the second quarter, to $28.8 billion – missing analyst estimates of $28.94 billion.

The round was led by Play Ventures VC with participation from Heracles Capital, a $10 million fund focused on mobile investments that was launched in May by Mobile Dev Memo Founder and all-around mobile smartypants Eric Seufert.

Multi-touch attribution is reaching an inflection point (finally). The majority of large advertisers (53%) now say they use MTA to track and optimize their spending across channels, according to new research from marketing trade org MMA Global. But why now?

After Apple’s WWDC, the company’s next step will be to clamp down on fingerprinting … the question is, when? Plus, industry orgs struggle to build a path forward with new signals.

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

SmileDirectClub was “born in the classic digital DR space during the Facebook heyday when that channel was super effective,” CMO John Sheldon tells AdExchanger. “Since then, we’ve focused on diversifying our spend to mitigate risk, but also as a way to chase performance across multiple platforms.”

It’s not surprising that AppTrackingTransparency and the end of third-party cookies on Chrome didn’t come up during the razzle-dazzle of Meta’s NewFronts debut this week. But advertisers have been asking about both a lot, especially for brands focused on commerce.