Budgets are shifting to search and social channels as privacy changes make display ads less effective. Nielsen finds that social influencers are much more trusted (71%) by consumers than social media ads or search ads (tied at 36%). The spectacular rise of TikTok is one result. Read the report for more on influencer types, demographics, locations, and engagement rates.
App developers are hit especially hard by new privacy rules, Bango reports. The majority (59%) say they’ve already lost revenue, 62% say they have “no idea” how they’ll acquire new users after the changes are fully deployed, and 27% expect to shut down entirely as a result. You won’t be surprised that Bango proposes a proprietary solution, something it calls “purchase behavior targeting”.
Two years in the making, IAB’s GPP is now available. It has been designed to help businesses, including advertisers, publishers, and technology vendors, comply with the EU’s TCF and US CCPA legislation across digital media channels. The intent is to simplify transparency for consumers via managing signals they receive.
We’re not quite ready to party like it’s 2019 but there was a touch of déjà vu yesterday when Klaviyo’s share price soared 23% after its initial public offering, which had already been repriced above its target. The offering gave Klaviyo a valuation of $9.2 billion or roughly 20x its 2022 revenue.