Taboola continues to bolster Realize with new Generative AI features that are driving clear results for advertisers as well. Realize is a technology platform that delivers outcomes at scale for advertisers, leveraging Taboola's unique supply, first-party data and AI technology. It delivers simplicity and efficiency for advertisers to run performance-based campaigns on many of the world's largest and most trusted publishers across all ad inventory, OEMs and apps.
Using advanced first-party data collection and real-time content analysis, the magazine creates advertising environments where every placement is strategically positioned for maximum impact. This isn't just about showing ads to the right people; it's about presenting them at the precise moment when the audience is most receptive and within editorial contexts that naturally complement the advertiser's value proposition. The results speak for themselves.
"Internally, we strive for the 'perfect send,' when 100 percent of the people who get the message click or engage, and no one opts out," said Alex Campbell, the chief innovation officer and co-founder at Vibes, a mobile marketing platform. Campbell was discussing the potential for AI individualization (AI-I), Rich Communication Services, and mobile marketing in the retail sector when he described this 100% engagement, 0% opt-out scenario.
Attributed revenue, ROAS, conversion rate - traditional marketing metrics track efficiency but often miss the signals that reveal which customers drive growth. Today, first-party customer data is more accessible and valuable than ever. And when combined with AI, it opens the door to a new era of customer-centered performance measurement. Customer analytics shifts the focus from channels to customers, framing analysis and activation around engagement, growth and predicted value.
The digital marketing landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. As third-party cookies disappear or deteriorate and consumer privacy takes center stage, marketers face a pivotal choice: adapt or become irrelevant. Success in this new era means moving beyond mere compliance to build strategies rooted in trust. The terrain is complex. Regulations such as GDPR and CCPA are a net positive for consumer rights, but can create issues for marketers.
According to the complaint, Meta inflated the ROAS of its Shops ads campaigns, which incorporated the costs of shipping fees and taxes as part of the attributable sale, despite those never going to the merchant or brand. Meta's other ad products, and those of other platforms, including Google and Amazon, don't count taxes or fees in their ROAS calculations. More damning, when data scientists identified the inflated ROAS, and Shops ads otherwise performed no better than "business as usual" campaigns, higher-ups continued to misrepresent ROAS.
