What’s Working Now: Meta Andromeda Update, TikTok Shop Ads & Pornhub Ads?

Perpetual Traffic

Tier 11

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Ralph and Lauren pull back the curtain on Meta’s latest Advantage+ transformation, powered by the underreported Andromeda algorithm. With Meta silently replacing manual campaign controls with full automation, the hosts dive into what this shift means for media buyers, business owners, and performance marketers. From breaking down Advantage+ Shopping's evolution to analyzing its strategic implications for ad spend and conversion optimization, Ralph and Lauren explain why understanding Meta’s AI is now mission-critical. If you're managing Meta ads in 2025, this episode is your wake-up call.

Chapters:

00:00:00 – Dive Into the Chaos: Welcome to the Professional Traffic Podcast
00:01:33 – The Truth About Meta’s Advantage+ and the Stealthy Andromeda Rollout
00:03:17 – Hot Takes: Our Raw Reactions to Meta’s Automated Future
00:05:28 – Meta’s $65 Billion Bet on AI—What It Really Means for Advertisers
00:07:42 – Tariffs, Tension & Traffic: Why It’s Time to Diversify Beyond Meta
00:11:41 – Beyond the Big Two: Alternative Ad Networks You Shouldn’t Ignore
00:17:30 – Snapchat Isn’t Dead: Surprising Wins and What the Data Shows
00:19:23 – TikTok’s Rise and the Platforms Quietly Dominating the Feed
00:21:00 – Dollars and Downloads: The Platforms Driving Real Economic Growth
00:21:09 – Threads is Blowing Up—Here’s What That Means for Marketers
00:22:03 – Personalized Ads That Don’t Suck: Cracking the Relevance Code
00:23:06 – Wait, Did We Just Say PornHub? The Untapped Traffic Opportunity
00:24:15 – Can Threads Deliver Ad Results? Here’s the Smart Way to Find Out
00:25:25 – TikTok’s Secret Superpower: B2B Lead Gen Done Right
00:30:02 – Lead Quality Over Quantity: How to Actually Score Buyers
00:31:07 – Mic Drop: Final Thoughts, Must-Know Takeaways, and Show Notes

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0:00.0	You're listening to Perpetual Traffic.
0:10.4	Hello and welcome to the Perpetual Traffic podcast.
0:13.2	This is your host, Ralph Burns, founder and CEO of Tier 11 alongside my amazing co-host.
0:19.1	Lauren, he, Trullo, the founder of Mongoose Media.
0:22.0	So glad you joined us here today.
0:23.6	You're calling in from Nashville.
0:26.3	Yeeha.
0:27.2	Did you do any, like, square dancing or anything like that while you're there?
0:31.7	I skipped.
0:33.6	I walked in a square.
0:35.1	You walked to the square?
0:36.6	But I'm a gringa who can't dance, so no.
0:39.3	No.
0:39.6	But I pretended to honky talk.
0:41.2	That's good.
0:42.0	That's good.
0:43.1	Well, we've been told to keep things moving here.
0:46.2	We can't do too much back and forth, wrap our take kind of stuff because it bores our listeners.
0:52.7	Fair.
0:55.3	Actually, fair enough.
0:57.0	We did get a comment.
0:57.9	We got an interesting comment that said,
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