Wayfair, a leading online home goods retailer with 22.4 million customers, has partnered with Moloco to advance its advertising capabilities. The collaboration integrates Moloco Commerce Media, a machine learning-powered platform, into Wayfair's existing ad tech stack. This enables real-time personalization of onsite ads based on anonymous shopper behavior, purchase history, browsing context, and time of day.
A key outcome is the introduction of Sponsored Display ad units, which allow suppliers to deliver dynamic creatives, capture shopper attention, and maximize return on ad spend (ROAS). Wayfair's Head of Advertising Product, Ravitej Sriram, highlighted the partnership's success in delivering highly relevant ads while meeting high standards for customer experience. The white-label, API-based solution helps retailers and marketplaces serve personalized ads using real-time data, maximize yield, and drive significant growth in onsite advertising revenue.
This milestone exemplifies Wayfair's innovation in adopting advanced machine learning to enhance the shopping experience and supplier outcomes.
Moloco Singapore fosters a collaborative culture where cross-functional teams drive customer value through machine learning-powered ad solutions. Key successes include fraud detection for an e-commerce platform, market expansion for a gaming company, and creative optimization for a mobile publisher. The team has grown from 10 to over 30 members since 2022, with diverse talent from eight nationalities. For ad ops decision-makers, Moloco emphasizes data-driven insights, customer obsession, and a strong team spirit that fuels innovation and business impact.
This guide helps app marketers select a Mobile Measurement Partner (MMP) by covering essential features like privacy-first measurement, unified attribution, fraud protection, and advanced analytics. It emphasizes choosing an MMP that integrates easily, scales with business growth, and provides reliable data for optimizing marketing ROI across teams.
Moloco's Audience Targeting Suite enhances retail media by blending purchase and intent data for precise targeting. Key features include Smart Targeting with AI/ML for automated optimization, Custom Audience Targeting via event/item/time rules, and Predefined Targeting for first-party data activation. Audience Administration tools control access to premium segments. Retailers benefit from increased ROAS, data governance, and revenue from CDP investments. Advertisers gain flexible, high-performing campaigns with closed-loop attribution.
Ned Samuelson joins Moloco as Global Head of Business for Commerce Media, focusing on retail expansion and customer growth. With 12 years at Criteo, he led teams for clients like Macy's and Booking.com. Moloco's AI platform has grown ad spend 10x in 2 years, serving 100,000+ advertisers globally. Ned aims to drive incremental revenue for retailers.
Retail media networks (RMNs) offer outcome-based advertising (e.g., 400% ROAS) using first-party data and ML, crucial amid tariff-driven economic uncertainty. Global ad spend growth slows to 5.8% in 2025, but digital and retail media thrive (18% YoY growth) due to transactional proximity and closed-loop attribution. Moloco's ML enables real-time optimization at campaign/SKU level, delivering 3x higher ROAS than legacy models. Advertisers demand certainty; RMNs that pivot from impression/CPC to outcome-based models will capture shifting budgets.
For Real Money Gaming (RMG) brands, rising CAC and regulatory complexity demand efficient, compliant ad platforms. Moloco Ads offers an AI-native engine optimizing for CPA and CPFTD, leveraging 3M+ apps and 2B DAUs for scale. Key features include transparent placement reporting, brand-safe environments, and dynamic seasonal bidding. Marketers gain unbiased attribution and re-engagement tools, directly addressing walled garden limitations. The platform is trusted by Fanatics, DraftKings, and Papaya, making it a compelling channel for high-value player acquisition.
Ad metrics are essential for optimizing campaigns in a market with rising costs (CPL up 25%, CPC up 10%). Key metrics include impressions, CPM, CTR, CPC, ROAS, CPA, and LTV. Mobile ads require unique metrics like app installs, retention, and stickiness. Best practices: align metrics with campaign goals, choose channels wisely, and partner with an MMP. Future trends include privacy-preserving measurement and AI-driven optimization.
The mobile advertising industry is optimistic heading into 2025, with 80% of marketers expecting the year to be as strong or stronger than 2024. Non-gaming apps are driving growth, with downloads up 12% YoY and IAP revenue increasing 20%+. Marketers are prioritizing profitability and ROAS, with over half reporting more aggressive KPIs. Generative AI is already benefiting creative production and optimization. iOS re-engagement remains underleveraged, and most marketers are still adapting to SKAN. Budgets are increasing, with a focus on ad networks and self-attributing networks.
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