A LITTLE UPDATE

Newsletter #37

“AI news dominates again this month with OpenAI releasing new shopping features and reports of Apple throwing their hat into the AI browser ring with their plan to launch AI search options within Safari. Meta’s woes continue as the antitrust trial intensifies and fines totalling millions are issued.

Louder specialists have been busy improving their knowledge on CM360 Path to Conversion reports and we’ve expanded our floodlight article to cover the match ID use case.

Supporting cancer research in an epic ride, Andrew will take his long service leave after ten years at Louder for the Tour de Cure. He’ll be cycling for eight days covering more than 1000kms across North Queensland roads.

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SPOTLIGHT

 

Path to conversion reporting

Path to conversion reports in CM360 provide insights into consumer journeys across the funnel prior to conversions.

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FROM OUR BLOG

 

Floodlights with server-side or not to server-side, that is the question?

Floodlight tags on the server-side can introduce measurement challenges, let’s take a closer look.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

 

OpenAI rolls out new shopping features

ChatGPT’s web search capabilities have been updated to improve online shopping for users with personalised product recommendations with images, reviews, and direct purchase links.

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Trial could force an Instagram sell

Lawyers for the US competition and consumer watchdog allege Meta unlawfully quashed rivals by purchasing Instagram and WhatsApp over a decade ago.

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AI search options on Safari

Apple’s plans to add AI-powered search options to its Safari browser are a big blow to Google, whose lucrative advertising business relies significantly on iPhone customers using its search engine.

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Netflix activates programmatic in AU

Netflix has enabled programmatic guaranteed buying in Australia for buyers using Google’s Display and Video 360 (DV360) and The Trade Desk.

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Cloudflare integrates Google tag gateway

Any domain proxied through Cloudflare can now serve your Google tags directly from that domain. This allows you to get better measurement signals for your website and can enhance your campaign performance.

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Apple and Meta fined millions of Euros

Apple and Meta fined millions of euros as European Union antitrust regulators handed out the first sanctions under landmark legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech.

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Google to disclose entities that pays for ads

Starting May 2025, Google will display the payment profile name as the payer name for verified advertisers, if that name differs from their verified advertiser name. For verified agency accounts, the client payment profile will be used for the payer name.

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PLATFORM NEWS

 

CM360 paid search reporting migration

Starting May 19th, Campaign Manager 360 is migrating their paid search reporting due to infrastructure improvements. Due to this, some paid search dimensions and metrics are being deprecated. All commonly used reports should have the dimensions and metrics removed prior to ensure consistency.

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Google tag gateway for advertisers

This month, Google begins rolling out Google tag gateway for advertisers. The new feature enables you to run your Google tags, be it client-side or server-side through your own website infrastructure, such as a content delivery network (CDN), load balancer, or web server. This will help you strengthen your first-party data strategy.

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Google introduces AI Max to search

Rolling out to all advertisers globally in beta starting later this month, this suite of targeting and creative enhancements brings the best of Google AI to your Search campaigns.

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Enhanced data completeness

Aggregate identifiers and Manual Tagging UTMs are Google’s latest initiatives to provide more complete data. Both approaches aim to improve attribution accuracy in scenarios where less data is coming through due to consent choices.

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Apply comparisons to reports

Comparisons let you evaluate subsets of your data side by side. For example, you could compare data generated by Android devices to data generated by iOS devices.

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Ads Studio available in MS Advertising Editor

Ads Studio is now generally available in Microsoft Advertising Editor, in addition to the Microsoft Advertising Platform web UI.

Copilot’s capabilities for image, background, and display banner generation, as well as image editing and asset-level performance insights are now all in one place with Ads Studio.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

 

Rethinking budget allocations in the age of AI-driven media

Understand how your budget is being spent and which tools will truly help you optimise your strategy.

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