Data Privacy

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Signal loss is muddying Meta’s algorithms and causing short-term pain (and stock dives) for the company formerly known as Facebook. Its partners and advertisers are feeling it, too. But signal loss is also prompting digital transformation and creating strong tailwinds – depending on who you are in ad tech.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Working Their Retails Off Retail media is in growth-stage limbo. Retailers have flooded the category with no guarantee advertising will pay off.  The latest is the craft store Michaels, which launched a retail media platform on Wednesday in partnership with Criteo. Amazon sets the […]

Over the past few years, several factors created a storm that forced marketers to reexamine digital targeting and measurement, consumer consent and the technologies that power each of these functions. With change as the only constant, Gary Walter, CEO and president of Infutor, offers five predictions for the year ahead.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Time Is Money The olds may see a TikTok feed and think, “Who can keep up with that?!” But TikTok knows that many of its younger users routinely watch the app at double speed.  TikTok’s internal user surveys and data reveal a tween/teen generation […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Julie Rubash, chief privacy counsel at Sourcepoint.  Dark patterns – or website designs that manipulate users into performing specific actions – are widespread these days. In fact, one recent study from Princeton examined 11,000 shopping […]

Walled gardens evoke privacy as a reason to clamp down on third-party data. But privacy and antitrust will finally catch up to the tech giants this year, and the result will be positive for the industry and for society writ large, writes Jason Bier, chief privacy officer at Adstra Data.

It’s the beginning of the end of the Android Ad ID. What Google’s mobile privacy sandbox announcements means. Plus: Why Facebook’s ad approval process irritates telehealth company, wisp.

IAB Europe’s Transparency & Consent Framework is flawed and unfixable – and it’s time for the ad industry to stop desperately looking for workarounds, writes Ruben Schreurs, group chief product officer at Ebiquity.

In the past month, there’s been a flurry of Privacy Sandbox-related news. Are we on the brink of adopting universal standards for targeting and measurement? Salesforce’s Martin Kihn says “Not quite.”

Over the course of less than 24 hours last week, the UK’s competition authority provisionally closed its investigation into the Chrome Privacy Sandbox and, separately, a coalition of top European publishers filed an antitrust complaint in the EU accusing Google of anticompetitive digital advertising practices.

The first meeting of the W3C Private Advertising Technology Group (PATCG) took place this week, bringing together the biggest American browser and tech companies. One important new item on the agenda is called Interoperable Private Attribution (IPA), a joint proposal by Mozilla and Meta engineers. If adopted, it would improve cross-device or cross-browser attribution tracking without tripping any of Apple or browser-based privacy policies. That’s a big “if” though. And, even optimistically, could take years to ship.

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

On its Q4 earning call this week, Criteo announced the start of a three-year global partnership with GroupM, shared an update on the IPONWEB deal, got frank about the privacy impacts of ATT and made the case for moving away from a focus on take rate.

Lots of first-time advertisers are heading to the Super Bowl this year: electric vehicle makers, crypto brands … and Criteo? It’s hard to imagine a bigger stage for a company that usually operates behind the scenes.

Amazon vet Lartease Tiffith, the IAB’s newly appointed EVP of public policy, has a wide spectrum of responsibilities: lobbying against bills that ban data-driven advertising, then lobbying for a federal privacy law. He’s a week and a half in, and he’s got his work cut out for him.

With cookies (finally) cooling off, contextual targeting tech is starting to heat up. On Tuesday, ShowHeroes Group, a video and contextual targeting tech provider based in Europe, announced its acquisition of cross-screen ad platform smartclip LATAM (as in Latin America). The rationale behind the deal is to help ShowHeroes Group bring its solution to the […]

You’ve probably heard the term “surveillance advertising” – used with increasing frequency – in reference to companies with an Orwellian agenda to keep tabs on you at all times. See the recently introduced Banning Surveillance Advertising Act. Minus the hyperbole, surveillance advertising is the practice of serving ads to individuals based on their personal information. But […]

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Flix It Public investor Bill Ackman scooped 3.1 million Netflix shares, a 0.68% stake in the company. The bulk buy by Pershing Square, Ackman’s fund, was inspired by Netflix’s recent stock plunge, reports The Wall Street Journal. Netflix missed […]

Google tells its side of the story in a motion to dismiss the antitrust case it’s facing – but where does the truth lie? Also: Google unveils its cookie-free Topics API, a rundown on California’s follow-up privacy law (CPRA) and a quick explainer on the latest privacy bill to hit the Hill: the ominously named Banning Surveillance Advertising Act.

The Privacy Sandbox is bursting with news this week. On Thursday, Google shared a slightly more concrete testing timeline for its FLEDGE and Core Attribution reporting API. Two days before, on Tuesday, Google announced the Topics API, a new proposal for post-cookie interest-based advertising that now replaces FLoC. Google, which teased earlier this week that […]

On Tuesday, just a few days after filing a motion to dismiss the state AG-led antitrust lawsuit against its advertising business, Google announced Topics, a new proposal for the Privacy Sandbox that replaces the FLoC API, which is being sent to bird heaven.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cookie Cutters A coalition of large German advertisers and Axel Springer, the biggest German publisher, are petitioning the EU legislature to stop Google from removing third-party cookies in Chrome, the Financial Times reports.  Chrome already delayed cookie deprecation from Q2 this year to the […]

In September, the California Privacy Protection Agency made a call for feedback on new and outstanding issues not addressed by existing implementation regulations for CCPA, and the comments are in. One of the most hotly debated issues had to do with consent interfaces.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. TC Effed? The Irish Council for Civil Liberties, a privacy advocacy group, published a blog post last week arguing that IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF), the industry’s mechanism to convey consent data in online ad bids, cannot be reliably audited and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Feed The Hand That Bites You Advertising insiders have become expert witnesses, so to speak, in antitrust battles with Big Tech.  There’s Tom Chavez, who co-founded and sold ad tech startups to Microsoft and Salesforce. He now operates a venture fund that invests in […]

More than a year after 17 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, the hits keep coming. A newly unredacted version of the suit – now ballooned to 242 pages – dropped on Friday and provides quite the scratch-off surprise. AdExchanger has been busy polling the industry and reading up on the latest allegations about how Google […]

The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday announced a joint effort to rewrite US antitrust law for handling mergers and acquisitions. Don’t hold your breath, though The two agencies are opening a 60-day public comment period for individuals, companies and organizations to submit concerns about M&A and antitrust regulation. That material will […]

OpenX CEO John Gentry on why the company isn’t going public in 2022, its recent COPPA settlement with the FTC and the ongoing challenge of ensuring quality supply in an open exchange.