consumer data

From 2015’s ad tech gold rush to today’s cautious comeback, telcos are once again testing whether they can turn subscriber data into ad dollars – this time with privacy as the selling point.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Clean Bill Of Health? Everyone knows the infamous anecdote of a young woman’s early pregnancy being spotted and outed by a Target circular back in the early days of advertising-oriented predictive analytics. But big retailers still casually profile customers using a mix of […]

Now that the new California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) has long been in effect, it’s time to clean up your pixel game.

Finding new customers is hard work. The online adult retailer Adam and Eve is tapping into machine learning to help.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rage Against The Machines Last week, Meta quietly rolled out Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns, the black box ad engine it previously parceled out to some advertisers upon request. Advantage+, like Google’s Performance Max, puts creative, targeting and optimization controls fully in the hands of […]

Earlier this week, AdExchanger asked FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya during his keynote at the NAD’s conference on advertising law in Washington, DC, why the commission decided to sue Kochava rather than any other ad tech company with a location data business. And, according to Bedoya, Kochava was singled out for a reason.

This article is sponsored by Experian. Identifying the right prospects has always been an important first step for any successful marketing campaign, but in the current COVID-19 landscape – and the new normal that will soon follow – it’s crucial to connect with the right audience. The pandemic has created a fluid situation for people, […]

The Federal Trade Commission is recruiting ad tech experts. Specifically, the FTC is looking for two people to gather and analyze information on digital advertising markets to inform how the agency and other policymakers think about policy development and enforcement as they consider potential consumer threats. Usually, the agency relies on a stable of economists […]

The California attorney general’s office has released the second draft of its implementation regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act. The updated regs, published late Friday, take into consideration feedback received during a 45-day comment period that ended in December. The AG is accepting comments on the amended proposed regulations until Feb. 25 (extended from […]

All eyes are on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which went into effect on Jan. 1. But get ready for new privacy bills across the country as state legislatures come back into session throughout January and early February. On Monday, the first day of Washington state’s 2020 legislative session, state House Rep. Norma Smith, […]