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Conversion Lift Study (CLS) from TikTok uses experiments to measure ad incrementality. It shows TikTok drives high incremental conversions, often undervalued by last-click attribution. CLS helps optimize budgets and strategies by revealing true campaign impact.

TikTok helps advertisers adapt to the end of third-party cookies by leveraging first-party data, Data Connections, and privacy-enhancing technologies for effective campaigns.

In-app bidding is increasingly preferred over waterfall due to efficiency, with around 80% of publishers now using it. It reduces latency, manual work, and improves ARPDAU by enabling simultaneous bids from all buyers. ML models in platforms like Moloco optimize bids in real-time, while waterfalls allow manual pricing control but risk inefficiency and reduced advertiser interest.

Google is expanding search ads with AI Overviews now live in the US, offering direct ad placements for easier product discovery. Shopping ads in Google Lens will be available by year-end, enabling visual searches.

Downloads for neobanks in Mexico are up 77% YoY, outpacing LatAm's 30% average. Nubank leads LatAm MAUs but only accounts for 18% of Mexican MAUs, where Mercado Pago and Banco Azteca dominate. DiDi Finanzas' growth in Mexico has stalled significantly. In Q3 2024, Mercado Pago and BBVA Empresas Mexico were top social advertisers, but both cut ad spend QoQ, while cohort spend rose 5%.

First-party data, collected directly from users with consent, is crucial for marketers due to privacy regulations limiting third-party data. It enables accurate personalization, compliance, and cost savings. Key steps include ethical collection, maintaining clean data, and using it internally for product/marketing optimization and externally via commerce media networks.

Sports betting apps face high acquisition costs and ad saturation. Success requires unbiased attribution via MMP, cross-channel cohesion, and off-season engagement through personalization and gamification. Avoid ad fraud and optimize ATT opt-ins.

Small businesses on TikTok can succeed with consistent posting, user-generated content, and trend tapping. The article highlights three cases: Chefs and Dogs grew to 2.5M followers via fun, regular posts; Driva achieved 16% CVR by incorporating UGC; Sovereign Hill used trends to gain 26K followers.

Adjust and Meta's AEM integration offers iOS advertisers privacy-centric, near real-time attribution. It expands App promotion campaigns and provides 1-day/7-day click reporting, helping optimize ad spend and ROAS while complying with privacy frameworks.

Tinder leads in revenue and downloads in Q3 2024, peaking at $538K and 51K weekly. Azar and Bumble show stable metrics, while Chamet and Poppo Live exhibit mixed trends. Active users vary, with Tinder at 338K and Poppo at 71K by quarter-end.

Retail media networks (RMNs) are rapidly growing but face myths about fragmentation and demand sourcing. Many consider building an SSP to attract demand, but this approach fails to scale. SSPs don't improve inventory performance, shift risk to advertisers, and risk commoditizing inventory. RMNs should instead leverage their unique first-party data and machine learning to drive relevance and performance, following models like Amazon, Meta, and Google to achieve sustainable growth.

TikTok ads succeed with TikTok-first content, using features like text overlays and trending storytelling. Strong hooks, sound, and editing boost attention and action.

Liftoff's creative recommendations for non-gaming apps focus on data-driven insights, user motivations, and effective ad formats like UGC and interactive elements to boost engagement and conversions.

Unity trademarks are owned by Unity Technologies. Other names are trademarks of their respective owners. This article provides legal information about trademark usage in advertising.

TrueLink deep linking solution enables frictionless cross-platform user journeys, boosting engagement and conversion through branded links, smart banners, and web-to-app scripts.

Hitapps, a mobile game developer, uses in-app advertising and hybrid monetization to balance revenue and user experience. Early adoption of Moloco SDK boosted ARPDAU by 5-15%. Key challenges include privacy changes (ATT, iOS updates, Google's Privacy Sandbox) and loss of control in mediation. Hitapps evaluates partners based on demand quality, ease of integration, and ARPDAU uplift.

This article explains eCPC and CTR, key mobile ad metrics, with 2024 benchmarks by region and vertical. It offers strategies to reduce eCPC and boost CTR, including audience targeting, A/B testing, and bid optimization.

Google Ads uses AI to enhance campaign performance, with new tools like Gemini for Search, image editing across campaigns, brand controls, and better reporting. Key announcements include expanded languages, Demand Gen insights, and campaign-level negative keywords.

TikTok Shop ads boost sales with minimal effort. Pairing organic content with ads increases brand recall by 27%. Five ad types target different funnel stages; start with Product Shopping Ads.

Latin America's app market is booming, with LATAM's ATT opt-in rate surpassing global averages. Brazil leads at up to 48%. Argentina saw 36% YoY session growth. E-commerce apps surged 80% in installs. Finance app sessions lengthened by 24% to 6.63 minutes in H1 2024.