A LITTLE UPDATE

Newsletter #53

“There’s a lot competing for marketers’ attention right now, from Australia’s next wave of privacy reform to AI reshaping media buying, measurement and automation.

In this edition, we’re focusing on what those shifts actually mean for marketers.

Our Spotlight looks at causal impact analysis and why better performance after a change doesn’t necessarily mean that change caused it.

We also unpack the proposed Tranche 2 privacy reforms and what they could mean for customer lists, pixels, audience activation and third-party data sharing.

Plus, we’ve rounded up the industry and platform news worth having on your radar.

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SPOTLIGHT

 

Did it actually work? How causal impact analysis can measure marketing investment

Measure the real impact of marketing investments, not just what changed afterwards.

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FROM OUR BLOG

 

Privacy Act Tranche 2: What it means for marketing data, consent and audiences

Australia’s proposed privacy reforms could reshape how marketers use and share data.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

 

Australia’s privacy reform moves forward

The Australian Government has released draft legislation to strengthen privacy protections, including measures addressing emerging risks from AI and other technologies, with consultation closing 18 September.

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AI leaders call for slower race

Anthropic’s CEO has called for the industry to slow frontier AI development until safety catches up, raising questions about what a slower race could mean for cloud investment and demand

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The Trade Desk cuts 15% of staff

The Trade Desk is cutting 585 roles globally after slower-than-expected revenue growth, marking the first major headcount reduction in the company’s history.

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France renews social media ban

France has revived plans to ban social media for under-15s, with a reworked proposal targeting addictive platform features after its first attempt was struck down.

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Disney+ scales its ad play

Disney is building out its Australian advertising proposition with new audience, data and measurement tools designed to connect brands across streaming, entertainment and live sport.

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AI puts brand guidelines to the test

As AI takes on more customer interactions and decisions, brands need to turn human judgement and unwritten rules into clearer instructions machines can consistently apply.

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Google’s antitrust fight shifts to AI

As Google avoids a break-up of its ad tech business, attention is turning to whether its growing use of AI and automation could further consolidate its advertising dominance.

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Agentic ad tech lands in Australia

New platform pubX is bringing independent AI agents to Australia, promising to make media trading decisions beyond the commercial constraints of individual ad tech platforms.

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The Netherlands forced Meta to let users ditch algorithmic feeds.

Australian federal government announced a long-awaited amendment to the Online Safety Act, outlining a digital duty of care to protect Australians from preventable online harms, last Tuesday.

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Australia puts algorithms on notice

A US court has stopped short of breaking up Google’s ad tech business, instead ordering changes designed to give competitors a fairer shot.

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Nunn Media wins Australian Unity pitch

Wealth manager Australian Unity has appointed Nunn Media as its media agency of record, following a competitive multi-agency pitch.

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PLATFORM NEWS

 

Reduced pricing available for Cloud Run jobs by deferring non-urgent tasks

To take advantage of reduced pricing for Cloud Run jobs, you can delay job execution to defer non-urgent tasks for up to 12 hours (Preview).

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Conversational analytics adds predictive modelling

Conversational analytics now supports predictive modeling questions using the AI.PREDICT function. This feature is in Preview.

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Dashboards available in Google Analytics

Dashboards are now available in GA. They are a highly flexible way to help businesses view their KPIs on a single report. This launch features enhanced UI capabilities, such as intuitive data visualisation creation, drag-and-drop functionality, and new report visualisations.

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The Data Engineering Agent now integrates with BigQuery Graph

The generally available feature provides additional context between your data source and destination schema, and improves schema mapping accuracy for your data engineering pipelines.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

 

AI visibility is the new marketing metric. But what exactly are we measuring?

AI visibility is growing fast, but can marketers trust the numbers yet?

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Server-side tagging is entering a new phase. Here’s why Google’s Floodlight changes matter

Why Google’s Floodlight changes signal a bigger shift towards server-side measurement.

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