Identity

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

Something ostensibly “good” (consumer privacy protection) could also be an antitrust violation. Weird world. Which is why data protection authorities and their antitrust counterparts must collaborate and compare notes.

It’s happening, folks. The Chrome Privacy Sandbox is going live, third-party cookies will be phased out on Chrome by the end of next year – and don’t expect any further deadline extensions, says Victor Wong, senior director of product for all things Privacy Sandbox.

A significant number of solutions that claim to be cookieless, including unified IDs and cohort-based targeting, still rely on IDs. These solutions will find it extremely difficult to achieve the scalability required to become a true successor to cookie-based advertising.

The more time the marketplace has to evaluate the Privacy Sandbox – and, particularly, the Topics platform – the worse those platforms will look.

U.S. state privacy laws are multiplying at a dizzying rate. Here are the key points to know for the collection and processing of sensitive information for the rest of 2023.

Phrasee, a UK-based SaaS platform that uses generative AI to create, test and optimize content for large enterprise companies, has run experiments on its customers’ content for the past eight years to figure out what drives the best performance.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Off Topic The ad industry isn’t sold on the Topics API, which becomes widely available in Chrome’s update July 12. The Topics API is “slightly less creepy than storing every last behavioral detail about someone centrally,” Luke Regan, UK managing partner at performance […]

Everyone is infusing their tech with generative AI, from startups to Salesforce to Google. Understand the throughlines of these product updates. Plus, the challenge of finding publisher playmates in the Privacy Sandbox.

The dynamic creative company A Million Ads, which focuses on the audio market, launched a new personalization product Wednesday that changes creative elements like voice, sound effects and companion images based on who the customer is.

After years of courting lower-funnel performance budgets – and charging on a cost-per-click basis – Outbrain foresees further growth in attracting upper-funnel spend. It’s doing so by giving brands a way to measure their return on investment in awareness campaigns by tracking whether people are actually paying attention to their ads.

Legal drama alert: The Federal Trade Commission refiled its privacy complaint against Kochava earlier this week. The case is under a temporary seal, so details are thin on the ground (for now).

Despite their perilous position, some companies still aren’t preparing for the end of third-party cookies. But the lack of testing isn’t because they aren’t concerned.

Dotdash Meredith bet on contextual with its launch of D/Cipher, but it remains to be seen whether it can turn its revenue numbers around.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Alternative Third-party cookies are not the future of digital advertising in the EU (or anywhere for that matter). But it looks like alternative IDs may not be either. European publishers are pushing back against alternative IDs that use publisher data to build […]

Amazon accounts for more than 40% of retail media’s multibillion-dollar total addressable market. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a big opportunity to scale retailer audiences across the open internet, says Criteo CEO Megan Clarken.

In Q1 2024, Chrome will deprecate cookies for 1% of a randomly selected group of Chrome users and slowly expand deprecation to more users throughout the year.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reeling In The Green Meta reel-y wants to monetize Reels. (Sorry, had to.) Now that the company has abandoned its metaverse plans, it’s getting back to its bread and butter: advertising. The platform is testing a new performance-based pay model for Ads on […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stores Of Value From regional chains to the largest department and grocery stores, seemingly every retailer is in the retail media network business.  Retail ad spend forecasts have leapt to $25 billion and more. Except those numbers mostly track Amazon’s growth, plus a […]

Trebel Music has released a ChatGPT-powered product called Trebel AI, which instantly generates personalized playlists in response to natural language queries. Advertisers on Trebel AI can target users in the moment based on their intent.

One-third of Publicis Group’s revenue comes from its data and tech business, which includes Epsilon and Publicis Sapient. Maintaining a differentiated revenue mix is one reason why Publicis is growing faster than the global economy, particularly since the pandemic, chairman and CEO Arthur Sadoun told investors on Thursday.

How well does Google’s replacement tech for third-party cookies work? So, so (so far), at least based on the results of a recent Google Ads experiment designed to isolate the contribution of the Topics API, first-party publisher IDs and contextual data.

Ad tech vendors who scrape content to build contextual segments are irking publishers. And the latest tweak in Safari will cut down on vendors that camouflage themselves in first-party cookie tech.

2022 was a record-breaking year for US digital advertising revenues, which cracked the $200 billion mark for the first time, according to the IAB/PwC Internet Advertising Revenue Report released Wednesday.

Before DOOH can court bigger ad budgets, it must adapt the automated tools marketers use for measuring and buying against performance to a media channel that straddles the online and offline worlds.

GDPR and Apple’s App Tracking Transparency have put an end to behavioral targeting. The result? The rise of contextual targeting.

Rather than allowing an ecosystem in which all media is interchangeable to remain the default, media owners must differentiate themselves to maximize their value to readers and advertisers.

As the digital advertising industry upgrades its privacy protections for consumers, some ad tech providers have wondered what the business impact for improving privacy will be. But how often do ad tech providers consider the cost of staying on legacy technologies such as third-party cookies?

The alternative ID landscape is incredibly fragmented. So how are publishers – especially long-tail publishers that tend to be strapped for tech resources – supposed to pick the ID solutions that work best for them?

Publicis Groupe-owned Epsilon has been in the CRM business for 30 years, but the agency only launched a self-service digital CDP for enterprise clients late last month.