children’s data privacy

What’s one data privacy shift or regulation that will most reshape digital advertising in 2026 – and who will be most unprepared for it?

Keeping American kids safe in what FTC Commissioner Mark Meador calls “an increasingly complex and fast-paced technological environment” is a top priority for the agency.

AI-generated mystery pages are appearing on brand sites; Amazon Prime Video doubles its ad load; and bipartisan efforts to protect kids online get a new partisan focus under the Trump admin.

The FTC’s latest staff report has strong message for social media and streaming video platforms: Stop engaging in the “vast surveillance” of consumers.

New requirements with respect to the processing of children’s data are occurring at the U.S. state level and seemingly flying below the radar. Here’s how these changes could impact targeted advertising in the United States.

Lawmakers are busy playing politics, and it’s getting in the way of creating safety guardrails for children’s privacy online.

Contextual targeting today is way more advanced than what was available a decade ago. So, what could the FTC’s COPPA Rule proposal mean for contextual advertising to kids?

In 2023, supply-path optimization took off, brands took their scalpels to made-for-advertising websites and DSPs and SSPs launched SPO products to cut down on hops. Plus: lessons from the year in data privacy.

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

The FTC is proposing a series of modifications to its 2020 consent decree with Facebook (from the pre-Meta days) that would have a tremendous impact on how the company does business – including a “blanket prohibition” against monetizing the data of children under 18 across all of Meta’s services.