Apple hosts its Worldwide Developers Conference next week. For advertisers this means gaining a better understanding of how desktop and mobile referrals are split and what this means for their
media-buying strategies. For publishers it means that while AI search referrals are growing, mobile - the dominant traffic source - remains untapped. Mobile product share belongs to Apple, but Google
dominates mobile web search.
The new "no social socials" campaign from Publicis' LePub is inspired by new research revealing the average adult is stuck six hours daily scrolling on their phone.
A quarter of Apple's customers use Apple News as either a stand-alone app or as part of the Apple One bundle.
In a first for Google, the social-response team will use the reply tool built on AI to help generate replies to YouTube user comments in the voice of the campaign. The iPhone and the Pixel phones have
very distinct voices.
Google and Facebook this week both warned that Apple's privacy changes in iOS 14 could impact data collection, as well as targeting and measurement of online ads.
Facebook's Project Atlas, which collected a trove of data from teens as young as 13, is sparking a new round of bipartisan scrutiny on Capitol Hill.