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An unlikely team-up to try and solve the attribution problem. Who will be the next queen of the ad industry? February 14, 2022 [Read in browser]( [logo] [sponsor]( Happy Valentine's Day! And congratulations to the Rams for winning this year’s Super Bowl. The big question we have for you is: Who won the Marketing Bowl out of all those crypto ads? Which one was your favorite? MEDIA BUYING Mozilla and Meta team up to solve the attribution problem [article-image] It’s an unlikely combination of companies, but hey, we won’t complain if it works. More details: [Mozilla and Meta have joined forces]( on a new proposal to hopefully solve the conversion measurement problem. The proposal has been named Interoperable Private Attribution (IPA). How does it work? In a nutshell, IPA is a proposal that uses a bunch of complicated algorithms like (Multi-Party Computation (MPC), user aggregation, and more) to preserve attribution while not allowing advertisers to track individual users. In addition, IPA also has cross-device and cross-browser options to provide more robust attribution capabilities. What’s next? Mozilla and Meta proposed IPA to the Private Advertising Technology Community Group (that’s a mouthful!), or PATCG for short. Let’s see the PATCG response. GOOGLE Google Ads gets ad extension improvements [Google has just rolled out improvements]( to its search ad extensions. If you thought “Are they adding automation again?”, here’s your answer: Automate. Automate everything! Yup, Google is trying to automate things once again. This time with automated extensions. With this update, you can tell Google to create sitelinks for you automatically and use them along with the ones you manually create. Additionally, you’ll be able to add sitelinks, callouts and structured snippets on ad group, campaign and account level. This should hopefully reduce repetition. 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Apple’s ATT crashed a direct response advertising model that helped DTC companies generate millions of dollars and helped Facebook make billions. Facebook’s disadvantage became Google’s advantage: Facebook openly admitted that Google benefitted over Facebook thanks to ATT. Search ads can access far more third-party data for measurement and optimization purposes than app-based ad platforms like Facebook. Because Google runs on the web, while Facebook runs on its app. On the other side, Google is watching the rise of Amazon Advertising, which faces no data restrictions. All of Amazon’s data collection, ad targeting, and conversion happen on the same platform. Hence, Amazon can collect as much data as they want. One more threat: In 2016, Apple launched Search Ads on its App Store. Now the question is if Apple might attack Facebook’s market share in the apps marketing business. Apple considers App Store’s data (conversions, installs, and other events.) as first party data, so they can use it as an advantage over Facebook. Then, to make things worse for Facebook, TikTok started attracting young audiences while dancing on Facebook’s public image disaster. What’s in sight? As the Stratechery post says, “real power in technology comes from rooting the digital in something physical: for Amazon that is its fulfillment center, logistics, and data centers. For Apple it is the iPhone, and for Google is Android and its mutually beneficial relationship with Apple.” Facebook has none, and their goal should be to build a company that is truly independent. And that’s what we think Mark Zuckerberg’s plan is with Meta. SPONSORED BY SEMRUSH Get 20 million ideas for a single keyword with this free tool [article-image]( For free! Yep… You can use [Semrush's Keyword Research Tool]( for free. You can also use it to monitor the intent of the keywords you’re targeting. 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But it has some advantages: - By giving you ideas, it can help writers get rid of the blank-page block. - Speed up your writing process by providing content that you just have to edit to fit with your brand voice, style, and audience. - Help with editing and proofreading. If you’re a one-person army business, AI-generated content can remove some work off your shoulders. [And as came up from the Insights’s discussion](, here are some tools: - Copy.ai: This can help you write copy, give suggestions for social media posts, and so on. - Jarvis: This provides several copywriting templates (like AIDA and Problem-Agitate-Solve) and content templates. It can help you write posts, ads, and emails. - Wordtune: It helps you repurpose content by rephrasing, adjusting to a more formal or casual tone, shortening or expanding, or simply just re-writing. The trend just started and many marketers are already taking advantage of it, so we’ll definitely see improvements in the next years. 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