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The advertising segment remains robust Given Alphabet's recently intensified focus on AI, one might forget that it remains primarily an advertising company. The advertising segment provided 78% of company revenue in Q4 2022. That segment brought in $9.2 billion in Q4 revenue versus almost $8 billion a year earlier.

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These factors weighed on Amazon's consumer-facing e-commerce, as well as its business-centric cloud computing and digital advertising. Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company's cloud infrastructure business, grew 13% last year, while its digital advertising grew 24%. fulfillment network. decline in 2023.

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With over 2 billion people now visiting Amazon's online malls every month, the company's new profit center is advertising; lots of Amazon's 2 million-plus third-party sellers are paying the platform to prominently feature their products on the site. However, the advertising business produces high-margin revenue. Data source: Amazon.

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Meta's revenue rose 37% in 2021 but declined 1% in 2022 as the aforementioned challenges curbed the growth of its advertising business. Its year-over-year revenue growth accelerated through all four quarters of the year as its advertising business recovered. Image source: Meta Platforms. Why did the bulls rush back?

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The lion's share of its revenue is generated by digital advertising, and using AI helps surface more relevant ads and appropriate content for its social media users. With the ongoing recovery in ad spending, 2023 was a banner year for the world's second-largest digital advertiser.

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The Trade Desk: Leading the digital advertising transition AI may be the most important growth trend in the stock market, but digital advertising has been another source of huge growth. The Trade Desk is well-positioned to take advantage of the next advertising boom. First, the company's Unified ID 2.0

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This is mainly thanks to advertising revenue across the company's social media platforms. The company over time has shifted gears to invest in something that could reinforce its social media dominance, ensure advertising revenue growth, and even offer potential for new sources of revenue. billion times every day.

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Furthermore, as the world's second-largest digital advertising platform, Meta makes the lion's share of its revenue from targeted advertising -- which is more effective when assisted by AI. 3 digital advertising platform. However, Nvidia stock jumped 239% last year, so Tepper likely took the opportunity to lock in some profits.

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The company manages several thematic exchange-traded funds (ETFs) focused on technologies such as streaming media, digital advertising, and mobile applications. In short, Roku engages viewers more effectively than other streaming platforms, and that makes the company a critical partner for content publishers and advertisers alike.

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The Trade Desk benefits from AI and digital advertising tailwinds Justin Pope (The Trade Desk): Artificial intelligence is a hot topic today, but it began disrupting the advertising business several years back when The Trade Desk was in its infancy. In short, Amazon remains a smart choice for AI-focused investors. The reason?

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The Trade Desk Let's talk about digital advertising services. UID2) that helps advertisers track and evaluate their marketing efforts while maintaining the privacy of individual ad viewers. When times are hard and consumers hold on to their money with an iron-fisted grip, companies don't want to spend a lot on advertising.

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However, most will agree that it isn't just about the gridiron, as it's also arguably the biggest day of the year for advertising. One of the recurring themes of this year's advertising bonanza was artificial intelligence (AI). Sunday was a big day in the world of sports as football fans settled in to watch the Super Bowl.

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Additionally, MercadoLibre accelerates that virtuous cycle by providing adjacent merchant services for financing, logistics, and advertising. Additionally, advertising revenue has increased faster than 70% for six consecutive quarters. The company also offers consumer credit cards and loans. Total revenue increased 40% to $3.7

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Another segment that is increasingly proving to be a powerhouse for the company is Amazon's somewhat less discussed advertising business. In Q4, Amazon's advertising revenue was roughly $14.6 It's also gaining market share of the broader advertising market. billion (8.5%). which is in line with its 10-year average.

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The biggest concern for radio companies is the health of the advertising market. Terrestrial and online-radio companies rely very heavily on advertising revenue. of its net sales from advertising through the first nine months of 2023 -- virtually all of which can be traced back to Pandora, which it purchased in February 2019.

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For starters, the tech company provides a platform that helps clients -- such as agencies, brands, and large companies -- perform programmatic advertising. With The Trade Desk's platform, customers gain access to almost all digital (and non-digital) advertising channels, such as connected TV, online video, mobile, audio, display, and more.

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The company's online search acts as a funnel for Alphabet's digital advertising business. The macroeconomic headwinds that weighed on digital advertising are beginning to abate, which will now play in Alphabet's favor. While the final totals for 2023 haven't yet been tabulated, Google is unlikely to have ceded much of its market share.

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The catalysts behind those predictions are a rebound in online advertising, ongoing efforts to control expenses, and AI innovation across advertising and cloud computing. Alphabet leads the digital advertising market with an estimated share of 39%, according to Statista. That forecast makes its recent valuation of 6.7

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Revenue increased 14% to $984 million on solid growth in platform revenue (digital advertising and transaction fees) and devices revenue. But average revenue per user (ARPU) declined 4% to $39.92, signaling a possible loss in pricing power due to competition for advertising dollars with larger companies like Netflix , Amazon , and Apple.

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Given it's a social media platform, the most obvious area to seek additional revenue growth is from advertisers. As a result, I see Reddit hard-pressed to entice advertising dollars away from the competition. In order to bolster its advertising potential, Reddit likely needs to exponentially broaden its reach.

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Google and Facebook controlled 39% and 18% of the global digital advertising market in terms of annual revenue, respectively, in 2023. Google's growing dependence on ad-free subscriptions for YouTube and YouTube Music also suggested its advertising business was running out of steam.

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Alphabet Although digital advertising titan Alphabet beat analysts' consensus top- and bottom-line estimates in the fourth quarter, ad revenues fell short of expectations. Since advertising provides nearly three-fourths of the company's total revenues, shares of the company sank after that result was revealed.

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For example, advertising revenue grew 27% to $14.7 Amazon doesn't report advertising profits, but that is very likely high-margin revenue. Alphabet 's Google, for example, generates an operating margin in the 30% range from its advertising business. Additionally, Amazon's third-party seller services revenue grew 20% to $43.6

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The thing this group has in common is advertising. Alphabet is primarily an advertising company, with 76% of revenue coming from this segment. As a result, this segment should continue to see outsize growth as advertisers flock to where eyeballs are for maximum effectiveness.

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Therefore, cash flow was already headed in the right direction when Uber decided to monetize its then-122 million monthly active users by launching digital advertising in October 2022. The following chart shows that Uber's net income saw a pronounced jump shortly after it launched advertising.

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Furthermore, while advertising still made up 76% of company revenue in the fourth quarter of 2023, Google Cloud's growth now outpaces Google Advertising. Whether the focus is advertising or other segments, Alphabet continues to grow at a respectable pace. That growth should accelerate AI development across the enterprise.

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We have built a flexible integrated platform that meets the needs of buyers, sellers, retailers, and data providers across the digital advertising supply chain while delivering superior efficiency. Ad transactions are then facilitated on the PubMatic platform against these cohorts to deliver highly relevant ads and improve advertiser ROI.

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Advertising is a high-growth business Amazon only started to break out advertising as its own business segment in late 2021, when it grew 32% year over year, trailing AWS at 40%. Advertising is a no-brainer for Amazon third-party sellers since it exposes them to Amazon's hundreds of millions of Prime members and other shoppers.

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Walmart sees Vizio as a way to accelerate the growth of its advertising business, Walmart Connect, which is delivering strong results as the retailer's e-commerce business grows. Vizio's advertising solutions and its OS likely make it more attractive to Walmart than the actual TV set business.

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Such is the strength of Nvidia's position that its customers essentially do its advertising for it as having its product is considered an asset at this stage of the AI boom. Bank of America is an advertising partner of The Ascent, a Motley Fool company. Can Nvidia keep rallying?

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billion, driven by 27% growth in advertising to $14.7 Amazon is proving that it's able to deliver solid top-line growth despite its massive size, and its operating margins should continue to expand as its growth is driven by higher-margin businesses like its third-party marketplace, advertising, and AWS. billion to $0.4 billion to $7.2

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Meta Platforms Meta Platforms, the world's largest social media company, lost its luster in 2022 as Apple 's privacy changes for iOS, fierce competition from ByteDance's TikTok, and macro headwinds curbed the growth of its core advertising business. At the same time, it ramped up its spending on its unprofitable Reality Labs business.

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Reason 1: Artificial intelligence Alphabet is known for its ubiquitous Google search engine and digital advertising business. AI is also assisting Alphabet's advertising products. These AI capabilities make working with the company easy and efficient for Alphabet's advertising customers. billion of its $86.3 billion of its $86.3

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