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AppLovin's consumer e-commerce business is growing rapidly, with advertiser spend up 28% sequentially versus Q4 2025, the seasonal peak, suggesting steep adoption and under-penetration of this vertical. — This signals that AppLovin is carving out a new, growing slice of the digital ad market, potentially pressuring the duopoly (META, GOOGL) and competing with AMZN's ad business for e-commerce budgets.

The consumer vertical's April ad spend is already higher than any peak Q4 month, showing that AppLovin's platform is counter-seasonal, unlike the rest of the digital advertising industry which typically sees a Q1 slump. — This indicates AppLovin is rapidly taking share from the larger ad platforms like Meta and Google, which normally report significant Q1 over Q4 declines.

Meta is increasing bidding on IDFA traffic in Max, but is not yet bidding on probabilistic no-ID traffic. Management dismisses the threat of Meta dominating the space again, citing AppLovin's superior Axon 2 model and closed-loop data advantage, and questioning the logic of Meta violating Apple's terms.