Data Privacy

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This week the big stories are all Google, all the time. First, the Department of Justice uncorked its long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant. As previously speculated by multiple news outlets, the DOJ’s case homes in on Google’s search business. In this episode of The Big Story, the AdExchanger team talks about why the […]

For the past couple of months, Google has been actively testing its Privacy Sandbox proposal for interest-based cohorts, and the preliminary results are in. The proposal, dubbed FLoC – aka, “federated learning of cohorts” – calls for using on-device machine learning to group people based on their common browsing behavior as an alternative to third-party […]

Do a word search of the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google, filed on Tuesday, and you won’t find … a single reference to DoubleClick, YouTube or DV360. As expected, the focus of the DOJ’s long-awaited filing, the result of an investigation that began well over a year ago, is squarely on Google’s alleged (gotta […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Malik Roberts, technical solution lead at Ad-Lib. As consumers, our data is becoming more private and less accessible. We’re becoming more difficult to track as we move around the internet, consume […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Sara Badler, senior vice president of programmatic revenue and strategy at Dotdash. If ad-tech acronym overload was not seriously impacting your mental health two years ago, it certainly may be now. Geopolitical and big tech-led privacy […]

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

Google is revamping Google Analytics for a world in which privacy plays center stage and identifiers are exiting stage left. The new version of Google Analytics, released on Wednesday, was in beta for more than a year, and will now be the default experience for all users. The updated product includes privacy controls to help […]

The House’s antitrust report on big tech, released last week, described the lopsided power dynamic at the W3C, where several “market participants” interviewed by the subcommittee said that they felt “bullied” by Google. The report claims that Google uses Chrome’s dominance in the browser market to “effectively set standards for the industry.” First, Chrome has […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Leigh Freund, president and CEO at the Network Advertising Initiative. Uncertainty has clouded preparations for compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ever since the law passed in 2018. Even […]

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has some feisty opinions about data privacy, Section 230 and social media platforms. “They’re just trying to maximize their ad revenue,” Yang said at a virtual summit hosted by NYC Media Lab on Thursday. Yang, who hasn’t ruled out a potential bid for NYC major, supports the idea that […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Andy Monfried, founder and CEO at Lotame. Standing for something is much harder and braver than being against it. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately as it pertains to many aspects of […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Christophe Collet, CEO at S4M. When was the last time you heard A/B testing and IDFA in the same sentence? The former is traditional ad campaign testing methodology going back […]

This week on the Big Story, we look at trust in the market as cataloged by LUMA Partners, and the antitrust case against Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon, as cataloged by a House Judiciary subcommittee. LUMA VP Conor McKenna swings by to lead us through Q3 M&A activity in a wide-ranging conversation that looks at […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hola, Jellyfish Indie agency Jellyfish expanded its tentacles in Latin America on Wednesday with the acquisitions of digital media companies Reamp and San Pancho. This marks the latest move by Jellyfish to grow into a global network. The price tags weren’t disclosed, but Jellyfish’s workforce grew […]

by Ryan Joe and Allison Schiff “To put it simply, companies that once were scrappy, underdog startups that challenged the status quo have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons.” In a 449-page report released Tuesday, the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust criticized the business […]

Julia Beizer is the chief product officer and global head of digital at Bloomberg Media. She will appear on Day One of AdExchanger’s virtual Programmatic IO conference on Oct. 5. Register to experience her session, along with more than 40 others, at Programmatic.io. As the industry debates the future of digital identity and vendors begin […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Matt Prohaska, principal and CEO at Prohaska Consulting. Matt will present “5 Things You Should Do Now To Get Ready For Our Post-Cookie World” at AdExchanger’s upcoming Programmatic IO conference on Oct. 21. Register to […]

Is Google finally listening to the ad tech industry? The introduction of the Dovekey spec last week – which embraced one of the key concepts laid out in Criteo’s SPARROW proposal – indicates that maybe, finally, the W3C’s Improving Web Advertising Business Group is making some headway. But, as always, we need to take these […]

The mobile ad ecosystem has changed a lot since MoPub, Twitter’s mobile ad exchange, was founded in 2010. Tech years are like dog years, and a decade might as well be a century. But the more some things change, the more they stay the same: Marketers still need some convincing to spend on mobile and […]

An investigative report from the UK’s Channel Four News team on Monday accused the 2016 Trump election campaign of actively trying to suppress the Black vote. The expose claims that Trump’s digital team targeted negative ads about Hillary Clinton at 3.5 million Black American voters in battleground states with the hope that they wouldn’t show […]

Another day, another avian-themed web standard proposal in the Chrome Privacy Sandbox. Meet Dovekey, which was committed to GitHub on Wednesday. But there’s something a little different about this proposed spec. It’s the first time that Google has incorporated an ad industry proposal into one of its own, and it’s encouraging to see a kernel […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Matt Spiegel, EVP of marketing solutions and head of the media vertical at TransUnion. You would be hard pressed to find someone in this industry who doesn’t think marketing has […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Digital advertising is becoming subtly and silently polarized. Not in the angry, conflicted way currently witnessed in politics, but a bifurcation in the road ahead is […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Scott Tieman, head of programmatic services, and Brad Herndon, managing director of personalization and marketing analytics, both at Accenture Interactive. Despite the abundance of consumer data caused by the COVID-19 […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by John Sabella, CTO at PubMatic. As Google Chrome slowly dribbles out concepts for a cookieless future with little structure, many media buyers in the industry are getting restless to have […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media.  Today’s column is written by Allison Schiff, senior editor at AdExchanger. It’s part of a series of perspectives from AdExchanger’s editorial team. The ad industry is facing a pair of interrelated existential threats: government regulation and […]

Eliminating arbitrage will become even more important after Apple implements its IDFA changes. Realistically, anywhere from 30% to 80% of a publisher’s traffic is being arbitraged, said Nathan Levin, CEO and founder of Mobile UA Ltd., a one-man consultancy he founded in 2018 to help developers navigate the mobile ecosystem’s complexities and tripwires. His clients […]

We’ve been talking so much these days about Google and identity that we’ve neglected getting into the other big Google story: antitrust. Congress dragged Google back to Washington again this week (virtually, at least) to examine about how its business impacts the competition. And this time, reports AdExchanger senior editor Allison Schiff, the senators were […]

TV data science company EDO released an insights platform Thursday designed to help brands, agencies and broadcasters better plan linear TV campaigns and understand how effectively those campaigns drive search engagement. The platform, called Ad EnGage, contains a module that provides competitive intelligence – where advertisers can see where competitors placed their own TV ads […]