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MediaMath and Airtel Announce Ad Tech Partnership

July 1, 2021
MediaMath, the first global independent adtech company with a local presence in India, announced a collaboration with Airtel, India’s premier communications solutions provider. Airtel recently launched Airtel Ads – a solution that allows brands to curate consent-based and privacy-safe campaigns to one of the biggest pools of quality customers in India. Airtel has over 200 monthly active users (MAUs) across its digital platforms. In addition to providing access to deep consumer insights, Airtel will facilitate access to advertising inventory, working in tandem with MediaMath to ensure end-customer relevance.
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Shopify Reduces App Store Developer Fees

June 30, 2021
Shopify is reducing the share of revenue it takes from app developers on its marketplace.  The move follows similar reductions by Apple, Google, and Amazon, who are all under anti-trust pressure that takes high app marketplace fees are prime evidence of monopoly positions.  Shopify’s particular change is to cut it’s current 20% fee to zero for developers who earn less than $1 million per year on its App Store and Theme Store.
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Sprout Social Adds Social Commerce Integrations

June 29, 2021
It’s kindof a big deal, but you’ve probably already heard that a federal judge has delayed, and perhaps killed, the big federal and state anti-trust suit against Facebook.  So I’ll report instead that Sprout Social is doing its bit to advance the cause of social commerce by integrating with Shopify and Facebook Shops. Sprout Social users will have easy access to customers’ purchase history while interacting with them through social channels.
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Kibo Commerce Adds Personalized Recommendations

June 29, 2021
Unified commerce platform Kibo also has new integrations, although they’re with the Monetate and Certona personalization systems that Kibo already owns. The spawn includes personalized site search, personalized category pages, and predictive visual search. By happy coincidence, I also have this Lucidworks study showing that 78% of shoppers interact with product recommends and 62% often make unplanned purchases based on them.
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Google delays blocking of cookie tracking on Chrome until 2023

June 29, 2021
Facing investigations in the UK, EU and US over rival complaints that planned ad-blocking changes for Chrome would give the company an unfair competitive advantage, Google has delayed plans to late 2023. Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), one of the groups investigating the issue said it was consulting on whether to accept Google’s plans to replace the tracking capabilities of cookies while improving protection of online privacy.
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