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Ad buyers aren’t thrilled about Google Chrome’s decision to phase out third-party cookies, but they’re thankful it’ll take about two years; Safari and Firefox didn’t extend such a courtesy. During that time, most buyers intend to rebuild their targeting and measurement strategies. But Google’s proposed Privacy Sandbox solution is still too theoretical for there to […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cookie Crumbs Industry trade bodies are not pleased with Google’s bombshell announcement this week that it would phase out support for third-party cookies over the next two years. In an open letter, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and the American Association of Advertising […]

With Chrome bidding farewell to third-party cookies, publishers predict a steep rise in use – and value – of their first-party data. Media companies with their own audiences and direct-to-consumer relationships expect power to accrue to them. And many publishers already have a head start. With Apple’s Safari browser blocking cookies for about 30% of […]

Grindr and a handful of other dating apps are getting publicly pummeled for sharing personal user data, including location data and sexual preferences, with third-party companies. But Grindr, OKCupid, Tinder and others are not alone. The practice is pervasive among every type of app. A report released Tuesday by the Norwegian Consumer Council, an Oslo-based […]

While certain companies, like LiveRamp, run away from location data – others are running to embrace it. On Wednesday, location data company X-Mode acquired the publisher book of business and raw location data assets of Location Sciences, a UK-based third-party location data verification company that helps marketers detect location-related data quality issues in their campaigns. […]

Google plans to phase out third-party cookies by 2022. What will replace them? The answer lies in Google’s Privacy Sandbox, a proposed set of web standards designed to protect privacy while still giving advertisers the ability to target and measure campaigns. In other words, the standards are web browser APIs that will eventually serve as […]

“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 Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. “You finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up!” – Charlton Heston, “Planet of the Apes” Personally, I was a skeptic on whether […]

Third-party cookies – the backbone of programmatic advertising – are not long for this world. Google’s Chrome browser will phase them out in two years, according to a Tuesday blog post. Google Chrome is betting that its Privacy Sandbox – the privacy-preserving API first unveiled in August – will over the next two years build […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Brand Safe Or Bust  TikTok may offer a curated feed of content that will appease advertisers as brand safety becomes a bigger concern on the platform. The feed of vetted TikTok creators will enable the app to charge advertisers higher rates for guaranteed brand […]

LiveRamp is distancing itself from location data. AdExchanger has learned that in Q4 2019, the onboarder offloaded the location data-related portion of the business it got along with its 2016 acquisition of Arbor. Cuebiq, a location-intelligence company, bought the assets. LiveRamp is keeping the rest of the Arbor business, which includes technology to connect first-party […]

2019 brought a tsunami of change to data-driven advertising. And those changes have overflowed into other part of businesses and the economy, as regulators scrutinize the world of digital advertising. Facebook gave the boot to third-party data suppliers. And in 2020, Google says it will make good on a long-held promise to revoke its advertising […]

The programmatic ecosystem spent the last 10 years in a state of hyper growth, and programmatic spending surpassed $100 billion dollars globally for the first time in 2019. While the next 10 years will likely bring a slowdown due to market maturation and data regulations, it’s indisputable that programmatic buying and the rise of ad […]

With cookies in decline, Dotdash wants to be the publisher that helps marketers weather the transition. With nearly a dozen media brands that span personal finance, weddings, lifestyle, wellness, beauty and travel, Dotdash prides itself on helping more than 100 million users find answers, yielding an enormous cache of intent data. Since its sites often […]

There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to bras. ThirdLove, an upstart challenger to established lingerie brands like Victoria’s Secret, is well aware of that fact, and its merchandise and marketing reflect the ethos of personalization. For instance, it offers half-sizes of its bras and an online custom fit finder. As ThirdLove becomes a more mature, […]

The direct-to-consumer food space is hugely competitive. You’ve got the meal kit delivery guys such as Hello Fresh, Plated and Sun Basket; the online grocery delivery folks, including FreshDirect and Peapod from Stop & Shop; and Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats for people who can’t be bothered with meal prep. And then there’s Hungryroot, a […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All In Context  Integral Ad Science acquired European contextual targeting company ADmantX for an undisclosed amount. Using natural language processing and machine learning, ADmantX identifies the context of an article and whether a piece of content is positive or negative, The Wall Street Journal […]

“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. I am finding that the major issues in our industry are increasingly overlapping with the major issues of our country, and not just when hearing Zuck, […]

“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 Sarah Sluis, senior editor at AdExchanger. It’s the first in a series of perspectives from AdExchanger’s editorial team.  There’s a question in ad tech that’s been surprisingly difficult to get […]

For Placed, life at Foursquare is a lot different than life was at Snap. Case in point: Foursquare and Placed completed the integration of their first-party audience data sets into a single attribution product within 90 days of the acquisition, which closed this summer. Snap sold Placed to Foursquare in May after acquiring the company […]

Transparency, notice and choice are good for privacy, right? Not if people are overloaded with too much information, according to Firefox, which released a Ghostery-like tool on Tuesday as part of Firefox 70 that shows users how many trackers are tracking them. Overdoing it on transparency actually creates opacity that puts the onus on users […]

WebKit, the open source browser engine that powers Apple’s Safari, is in the very early stages of testing an API that would give browser operators the ability to see whether users are logged in to a website or not. Steven Francolla, head of global publisher strategy at LiveRamp, recently came across a reference to the […]

Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, CMO of Firefox parent company Mozilla, has fiery opinions about technology companies that use privacy as “nothing more than a communications ploy.” “Most organizations aren’t taking the right steps to treat people like human beings, and that’s a big problem,” said Kaykas-Wolff, who’s been with Mozilla for more than four and a half […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CMO A Go-Go Dunkin’ CMO Tony Weisman will step down in December after a busy two years at the company. Weisman oversaw a major rebrand (from “Dunkin’ Donuts” to its more general coffee and food focus today), as well as the first overhaul of […]

This article is sponsored by Facebook. More than 2.7 billion people now use Facebook and its family of platforms – including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp – every month.[1] In this age of platform-based interactions, Facebook ad campaigns and customer service features are no longer a “nice-to-have,” they have become a necessary touchpoint to build customer […]

Contextual targeting is all the rage – and no, it’s not 1998. It’s 2019, and the industry is anxiously casting around for an alternative to third-party cookies as the browsers clamp down on cross-site tracking and regulatory pressure ratchets up in the United States and around the world. A shift away from audience-based buying is […]

Hey, CCPA-heads, the moment you’ve been waiting months for has arrived. The California attorney general’s office on Thursday published the first draft of its implementation regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act. [Click here to read the full text.] The purpose of the regulations is to operationalize the law and provide practical guidance. It’s the […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Pete Spande, chief revenue officer and publisher at Insider Inc. The “death of cookies” may be second only to “year of mobile” as ad industry prediction fails. Both forecasts felt tired after too many false […]

You can subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you get your podcasts. LiveRamp is by far the most widely used platform for first-party data onboarding and identity resolution. This week on the podcast, its gregarious CEO Scott Howe talks about the company’s wild ride – from private concern to […]

Does behavioral advertising actually bring in significantly more revenue for publishers than contextual advertising? That question, hotly debated by privacy advocates, academics, publishers and advertisers, was a central theme at the Federal Trade Commission’s day-long workshop about the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act held Monday in Washington, DC. The workshop explored whether it’s time to […]