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Rakuten Advertising Unveils Innovation Labs to Accelerate AI Innovation in Affiliate Marketing
Rakuten Advertising, the leading global affiliate marketing network, today announced the launch of Innovation Labs — a product collaboration hub dedicated to accelerating the development and application of AI to generate greater ad spend efficiency to target and engage customers across Rakuten Advertising's world-leading affiliate publisher network. Now available in Rakuten Advertising's Insights & Analytics portal, Innovation Labs provides advertisers and publishers with a space to explore and
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