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By Alexander Lee and Marty Swant • September 13, 2022 •

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Even while Roblox gets ready to roll out updates to appease marketers’ growing appetites for the metaverse, consumer advocates warn the platform has left a bitter taste in the mouths of some users.
On Friday, the company revealed new ad formats that aim to create new “immersive” formats such as three-dimensional digital billboards, in-game “portals” that let users jump from one experience to another and eventually video ads. The company wouldn’t disclose what the costs of the immersive ad formats might be. However, “it’s not like slapping banners,” said Richard Sims, senior product director for monetization roblox death soundboard at Roblox. The new tools give Roblox and developers new revenue streams while also creating content ratings and limitations to make sure content is age-appropriate.
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“Just because you build it does mean they’ll come,” said Keith Soljachic, head of innovation at Publicis Group. “And we have to find creative ways of driving more virtual foot traffic.”
Josh Neuman, president of Melon — a studio that builds virtual experiences for companies like Chipotle, Mattel and PacSu — said the updates will help automate marketing rather than doing individual outreach to influencers, developers and other partners.
“Portals have been very successful in driving new traffic to new experiences,” Neuman said. “But that’s kind of like driving a manual car.”
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“All of this is concerning for kids because they don’t understand the business model,” Livingstone said. “Nobody understands the business model.”
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Roblox is also adding new restrictions for users depending on their age. Only users over 13 will see immersive ads. Games will also be split into three tiers: One for users over 13, another for users 9 and older, and another for all ages. Whether these updates will be enough to create proper guidelines for users and developers is yet to be tested. However, during the Federal Trade Commission’s public hearing last week Mozilla chief security officer Marshall Erwin — who didn’t mention Roblox specifically — said it’s important that any new regulations address adult platforms with the context that kids might still use them.
“We need rules that put an affirmative obligation on major platforms Spanish DevForum English azz Roblox Open Translation to to do something when they have a reasonable basis to believe kids are using the platform, even if it isn’t targeted to them,” Erwin said. “Just to give you an example, YouTube, and not just YouTube kids. And that way we can avoid the sort of kids compliance theater that we do worry about a little bit.”
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Andrew Frank, a marketing analyst at the research firm Gartner, said Roblox has yet to pass the experimentation phase when it comes to ad budgets. Although brands often experiment with new formats, Frank said experimental ad formats often end after the pilots — either because of high costs, challenges with scaling or issues with oversight. Plus, he said, Roblox is more of a gaming platform than a social media platform — and one that’s now been around for more than a decade — and would require the platform to substantially evolve before becoming a line item on a media budget or reaching maturity like connected TV.
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