September Overview: Digital advertising news & trends

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Published: 1 October, 2025

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

iGaming LTV Growth Guide:From Sign-Up to Long-Term Revenue

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Every dollar spent on acquisition must pay back, but in iGaming, payback is stretching longer each year. Operators who rely only on new traffic risk eroding ROI and slowing growth. The operators who win are those who maximize value from every player.

The smarter path? Squeeze more juice from the base you already own. This guide reveals how top iGaming brands boost LTV, reduce CPA, and turn retention into their best acquisition channel.

Inside, you won’t find theory — you’ll find plays. Three sharp strategies that top iGaming brands use to unlock hidden revenue: Retargeting, Retention, and Reactivation. Each one comes with expected impact ranges, proven mechanics, and the risks nobody talks about (with ways to neutralize them). Think of it as a shortcut to the insights you’d normally learn the hard way.

Continue reading: UBIDEX

What can top marketers not survive without?

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We ask top marketers what software, systems and personal crutches they could never let go of. Earlier this week in these pages, an anonymous agency worker shared their frustrations that they’ve been required to move from the Google suite to Microsoft’s, including PowerPoint.

For creatives (or indeed strategists, planners, and just about anyone else), relationships with pieces of software can run deep – for our anonymous correspondent, it may not have been a dealbreaker, but for many, preventing access to their chosen tools would be close. So, what are those pieces of software and other essential personal crutches that adland’s best and brightest would only let go with deep claw marks? We asked them...
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Lookalike Audiences For Casino Retargeting

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Lookalike audiences sound fancy, but the idea is simple. You take your best players and ask the platform to find people who behave like them. It works because past value points to future value, especially in iGaming, where intent shows up in patterns, not just clicks. If you need quick clarity on what to build, how to test it, and when to scale, this playbook will get you moving today.
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Marketing In The Age Of AI Answers

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AI shift in the way people find information has major implications for the entire marketing organization beyond just SEO. If brands want control over how they appear in AI search results, they must think about the content they feed to large language models.

The same goes for PR and corporate comms teams, whose job it is to track brand safety and reputational risk. Going forward, every time they issue a press release, they should consider how an LLM might ingest that information and present it. Likewise for paid editorial, content produced by influencers and social media posts.
Continue reading: AdExchanger

SiGMA Euro-Med: Is EU regulation ready for AI?

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Panellists at SiGMA Euro-Med discussed whether regulation is ready to maintain rapid technological change.  
Kris Galloway, Head of iGaming Product at Sumsub, led a panel titled ‘Gambling with AI: Innovation, ethics and the Black Mirror effect’ at SiGMA Euro-Med 2025. Joining him was Sharon Xuereb, Senior Associate at Camilleri Preziosi; Kush Desai, Founder & CEO at Source Code Lab; and Jaguar-Adva Gal, CEO of JAGuar Reg&Comp.  
Continue reading: Gambling Insider

Legacy or leadership? Why operators need to adapt or risk fading away

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Legacy technology is already slowing operators down – and in a marketplace set to become even more competitive, the risks of standing still are only growing. Decisive investment in adaptable platforms is the only way for iGaming businesses to secure their future.

Across casinos and sportsbooks, legacy systems still underpin operations, from player accounts to betting markets. Once the backbone of stability, these platforms are now a drag on progress, trapping operators in costly maintenance cycles and limiting innovation. Just recently, iGB pondered whether the industry has actually lost its taste for cutting-edge technologies.

Continue reading: iGaming Business

AI will reshape marketing by 2030—what to operationalize now

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This story is part of Ad Age’s Future of Advertising 2030 series exploring how marketing, media and creativity will evolve over the next five years.

As fascinated as advertisers are with AI and the fast development of new tools, the long-term industry transformation brought on by emerging tech is unknown. From the threat to creativity to the creation of digital influencer clones, AI will fundamentally shift current marketing practices, and 2030 strategies should already be in motion.

On Ad Age Insider, Ad Age reporters reveal findings from their reporting for Ad Age’s Future of Advertising 2030 package in a roundtable discussion. Automated ad execution, updated contract terms and building awareness for AI shopping agents—hear more on what you should be preparing your business for in the future.

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