April Overview: Digital advertising news & trends

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Published: 1 May, 2025

Every month, we select a few digital advertising industry insights to help industry players stay updated with trends and news. Enjoy April industry insights and stay up-to-date!

Why Post-View Attribution is Essential for iGaming Operators

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The iGaming world is fast, competitive, and full of data. But even with all the numbers we track—clicks, conversions, deposits—something important often gets overlooked: what happens before the click. That’s where post-view attribution comes in.

In simple terms, post-view attribution lets you credit conversions that happen after someone sees your ad, even if they never clicked it. For iGaming operators, this matters more than you might think. In a space where players often decide to sign up or deposit hours—or even days—after seeing an ad, this model gives you a much clearer picture of what’s working.

It’s not just a technical tweak. It’s a smarter way to run your ads and make better decisions in a complex market.

Continue reading: UBIDEX

Podcast ad revenues will grow consistently despite broader ad pullbacks

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Increasing competition in the podcast environment indicates that podcasts are enduring despite economic uncertainty and ad spending pullbacks.

Accessibility remains a huge driver of podcast adoption for listeners. The format is unique because it can be consumed anytime, anywhere, particularly during times when traditional media is more difficult to access, like commuting. Podcasts also benefit from an intimacy that other platforms struggle to mimic. The medium fosters a unique connection between hosts and listeners, giving listeners a more personal connection to the creators they follow compared to other channels.

Continue reading: eMarketer

Retargeting, Retention & ROI: iGaming Interview with UBIDEX

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At AdOperator, we love sitting down with people who are reshaping the ad tech space — especially when they bring real, hands-on solutions to performance marketing challenges. We recently had the chance to catch up with Oleg Martynenko, CEO and founder of UBIDEX and Pragmaspace, for a candid conversation about iGaming, retargeting, automation, and what’s next for programmatic advertising.

What started as a deep dive into platform features quickly turned into a broader discussion about where the industry is heading — and how smart retargeting strategies can make or break user retention in 2025.

Continue reading: AdOperator

The Ad Tech Verdict On Google And Third-Party Cookies

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Last Thursday, after five months of suspense, Judge Brinkema delivered the verdict on the Google ad tech antitrust trial. Google was found guilty of monopolizing two advertising markets, both on the sell side: the ad server market and the SSP market. And it unlawfully tied its ad server, DFP, to its ad exchange, Google AdX. Google was not found to be a monopolist in the ad network business.
On the podcast, we bring on our courtroom reporter and managing editor Allison Schiff, who shares her reaction to the verdict, as well as what she’s hearing from her sources about the trial’s outcome. She will also tell us what’s next. Will Google appeal? What could the remedies be? Will we see Google spin off part of its ad tech business?
Continue reading: AdExchanger

‘Cost per re-engagement’ goals may be killing your app’s retargeting efforts

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In this article, we discuss mobile retargeting and why optimizing toward ‘cost per re-engagement’ may actually be doing your campaigns more harm than good. Read on to find out why, and learn which retargeting metrics you should be focusing on instead.
Continue reading: The Drum

5 Critical Retargeting Mistakes and How to Fix Them

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Retargeting ads are one of the most valuable tools in the digital marketer’s arsenal—specifically in the highly competitive iGaming environment. Well-executed retargeting ads bring back engaged users, increase deposit rates, and optimize lifetime value. Poorly executed retargeting ads waste budget, pester users and damage your performance.

If your retargeting campaigns aren’t performing as expected, the likelihood is that one or more of these typical errors are the culprits. And the good news? They can be remedied—with the proper strategy.
Let's examine five typical retargeting blunders that iGaming marketers often make and what you can do about them.

Continue reading: UBIDEX

Yes, AI will redefine marketing – but not the way you’d expect

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I remain convinced that every AI tool claiming to “make ads” has been built by people with no actual experience working in advertising. Your agentic AI Marketing solution might be impressive – if you knew what marketing is, or how it works.

Show me someone who says AI is game over for a profession, and I’ll show you someone who knows nothing about that industry and isn’t burdened by curiosity. The more some people know about technology, the less they seem to understand reality. People don’t buy legal contracts; they buy advice. They don’t buy solutions from McKinsey; they buy career insurance – or plausible deniability.

Continue reading: The Drum

Why brands and agencies are putting AI chiefs in their C-Suites

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A new addition to the S&P 500 officer class has emerged in recent months: the chief AI officer, a position defined not by control of key budgets or the size of their team, but their expertise in all things generative, agentic and automation. IPG’s appointment of Yaniv Sarig as its global head of AI commerce last week was merely the latest in a string of C-Suite hires made by major advertisers and agencies.

In the last 12 months, brands like General Motors, Mastercard and ZocDoc have each appointed chief AI officers while agency holding companies like Stagwell, subsidiaries like Golin and indie shops like Luckie & Co. and Horizon Media have done the same. Adtech firms are in on the trend – Zefr hired a CAIO in February 2024 – as are B2B giants like PwC, S&P and Accenture.

Continue reading: Digiday

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