GooglePower the next wave of games growth with ads innovation
At the Google for Games 2024 Developer Summit, new ads tools were unveiled to help mobile app developers scale creativity, diversify revenue, and make data-driven decisions.
Key features include AI-powered image and text suggestions for App campaigns, Uplift Experiments for video asset testing with confidence intervals, and target return on ad spend (tROAS) for hybrid monetization, which helped Lessmore achieve 3X higher ARPU.
AdMob enhancements include new real-time bidding buyers (Unity Ads Network and ironSource Ads), upgraded mediation toolkit with segmentation and A/B testing, and immersive in-game ads.
Privacy-centric geo-based experiments measure incremental ROI.
These tools aim to empower developers to optimize campaigns and monetization.
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