2) Microsoft Advertising announces open beta for new automotive ads.

If you’re an automotive advertiser, you know how important both native and paid search advertising can be for driving quality clicks to your website and increasing vehicle sales. And to capitalise on all this great volume, you want to showcase as much of the inventory or models you have to offer to help turn those clicks into conversions.

To help you achieve these goals, Microsoft Advertising is excited to announce the open beta of a new product unique to Microsoft Advertising: Automotive Ads! This is now available to advertisers in the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK).

3) We are spending more on smartphone apps than ever before – reached a record high of $32 billion in Q1. Apple is still the big winner

4) WhatsApp Pay gets green light in Brazil.

5) Magna predicts faster than expected rebound, with 2021 ad spend set to hit $240 billion.

6) YouTube expands monetization to more types of content.

7) Google Knowledge panels can show competitors as alternatives.