The case for and against… advertising through the trade war

In corporate boardrooms and on the sidelines of industry conferences, marketers are considering how best to respond to President Donald Trump’s tariffs. It’s become the key question facing them this year.

Marketers’ collective wisdom, gleaned from past recessions, pandemics and near misses, will tell them that advertisers that stick with their message — and continue to invest in their brand — are able to reap the benefits when the crunch eases. Market volatility rarely lasts long, after all.

Some advertisers, from B2B brands like PwC to automakers such as Hyundai, are holding the line and pushing ahead with marketing activity. Others, like low-cost Chinese clothing brands, are clearly pulling back.

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Ad Tech Briefing: Google’s Pmax updates suggest it might finally listen

Sometimes it feels Google can’t do right for doing wrong, but let’s not feel overly sad for a company that generates hundreds of millions in daily ad revenue.

As Digiday noted on multiple occasions, April was a tumultuous month for the online advertising giant. Multiple antitrust trials placed its data firehose Chrome at risk of a forced sell-off. Then, there’s the fate of third-party cookies in the market-leading web browser, a saga that has been a central strand in its narrative arc in the 2020s.

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A parallel strand to Google’s narrative throughout the 2020s has been the threat AI poses to what many consider Google’s moat: its search advertising business, which generated more than 50% of its ad revenue last year.

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