February Overview: Digital advertising news & trends

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Published: 1 March, 2025

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

5 Proven Strategies to Increase Player LTV in iGaming

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Consider this scenario: A player accesses your website, inspired by bonus offerings. They play a few rounds, deposit some money, and then disappear. Sounds familiar? For many operators, the journey ends here. Attracting gamers is only half of the struggle. 
The true challenge is keeping them engaged and getting them to come back for more. Player lifetime value (LTV) has emerged as a vital performance metric, yet many operators fail to progress beyond the engagement stage. With the right strategies, it is feasible to convert visitors into high-rollers.
Continue reading: UBIDEX

Guide to programmatic advertising: Channels, ad types, service models, and players

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Programmatic advertising has been a mainstay of digital advertising and marketing for much of the internet era. But the advertising approach, which comprises over 90% of US digital display advertising, continues to evolve. Once dominated by desktop computer-based impressions, programmatic today is moving to mobile formats and has branched into connected TV (CTV). 
In this guide, we discuss key definitions related to programmatic advertising and explore the ins and outs of the ad buying process, first- and third-party identifiers, ad targeting, and more.
Continue reading: eMarketer

Eli Desatnik on winning trends in iGaming

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SiGMA Summits kick off the year 2025 – it is the right time to analyse the leading trends that have emerged in the past and will determine the coming year in the gambling industry. Eli Desatnik, founder of Pushub.net and a speaker at SiGMA, shared his insights on the trends in the iGaming industry in 2024 and its direction for 2025, adding perspectives from prominent affiliates.
Continue reading: SIGMA World

Why Data Minimization Is A Very Big Deal For Ad Tech

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When it comes to data collection, the ad tech industry has long had a hoarder mentality. Gather up as much data as you can from as many sources as possible, store it indefinitely, and if you’re not quite sure what to do with it now, hey, you can always just figure out that part later. But the more-is-more approach to data no longer flies, if it ever did.
Continue reading: AdExchanger

What the future holds for marketing: hyper-personalization, industrialization & the battle for brand relevance

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With a future being shaped by seismic shifts in technology, creativity, and consumer expectations, marketing will look, feel and act very differently in 2035. Predicting the marketing trends a decade from now was the focus of the final panel at The Drum Predictions 2025.
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Why Retargeting Is the Key to iGaming Player Retention in 2025

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The iGaming industry is transforming at a breakneck pace, and 2025 is shaping out to be a record-breaker for operators worldwide. With heightened competition, player retention is the holy grail, and that’s when retargeting comes in and works its miracle. 
Continue reading: UBIDEX

How brands are using custom AI to improve programmatic ad buying

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Major brands are developing custom AI algorithms to improve their chances in programmatic ad markets as new tools make it easier—and cheaper—to tune large language models, according to ad tech and brand leaders. For instance, Lenovo and Sargento both have used custom algorithms, built on top of AI, to test digital campaigns, which they said helped identify new target audiences and higher-quality ads. 
Continue reading: AdAge

WTF is identity resolution?

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Even with the third-party cookie still kicking, the digital ad market has become overrun with various identifiers. That can create its own kind of identity crisis without a way to connect those disparate IDs. But there is a way. It’s called identity resolution, which may be the industry’s most plainly named jargon.
As the name suggests, identity resolution is a method for reconciling different identifiers to create a coherent picture of a person’s identity. But that reconciliation process is where things start to get a bit more complex, with the introduction of identity graphs and identity spines.
Continue reading: Digiday

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