New Adtech From Microsoft Would Interrupt Your Game at ‘Promoted Content Trigger Events’
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If ads are tied to in-game “trigger events,” your product is now competing with an attention-optimized ad engine at the exact moment of peak engagement. Game and app builders should assume UX is becoming an ad surface by default and negotiate hard for control over when and how those triggers fire.
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