ID5 bought TrueData mainly to tackle what ID5 CEO Mathieu Roche calls the “massive fragmentation” of digital identity, which is a problem on the user side and the provider side.
Cookies aren’t going anywhere. Behind Google’s third missed deadline to remove third-party cookies from Chrome. And what it means for ad tech.
The industry is “at a critical inflection point in our digital evolution,” David Cohen told attendees at the 1,200-person-strong Annual Leadership Meeting in Florida on Monday.
It takes a publisher around six weeks on average to test and deploy a new identity solution, not to mention the maintenance they have to do over time. No wonder publishers are stressed out.
The end of third-party cookies is upon us, and independent ad tech is diverging on the best approach for cookieless targeting. Meanwhile, agencies and marketers are zooming out from programmatic to a bigger picture that’s focused on first-party data.
Yes, Google pushed back the deadline twice. But barring action by the UK’s competition regulator, which has oversight over Google’s rollout of the Privacy Sandbox, third-party cookies in Chrome are dunzo.
We share our 2023 New Year’s resolutions. We’re cracking down on the terms “cookieless” and “privacy safe.” And for the sake of experimentation, we’re cautiously embracing ChatGPT.
The slow dismantling of cookie-based tech had its fingerprints all over our coverage in 2022 (if you’ll excuse the mixed metaphor). Data privacy supplied the drumbeat, from stories about clean rooms to new privacy-forward ad tech products to the rise of retail media (a data safe haven).
“‘Cookieless’ is just a buzzword,” said Sanup Pillai, DHL’s global head of digital marketing and mar tech tells AdExchanger. “I wouldn’t say we’re getting ready for the ‘cookieless future’ as much as that we’re taking this opportunity to future-proof our technology stack.”
Everyone in our industry has been on the edge of their seat since Google first began developing the Privacy Sandbox more than three years ago. But things have been moving slowly, writes Lukasz Wlodarczyk, VP of programmatic ecosystem growth and innovation at RTB House. The cookieless future is virtually here, and the time to experiment with alternatives is now.
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The word “cookieless” crops up in virtually every conversation about the future of online identity. But what exactly do people mean when they say “cookieless”? Although the definition seems simple enough – the absence of cookies – it lacks the nuance to encompass the true complexity of signal loss. It’s also a misnomer.
As an industry, we’re guilty of procrastination. With just months until third-party cookies are deprecated, so many advertisers are still twiddling their thumbs. But procrastinating is a curious and dangerous approach, writes Nitin Rabadia, commercial director of Kepler Group.
What can marketers do to separate the snake oil from the good stuff when it comes to identity resolution and cookieless technology? In a nutshell: “Buyer beware,” says Michael Komasinski, newly appointed global CEO of Dentsu-owned Merkle.
“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 Nancy Smith, President and CEO of Analytic Partners. While Google’s delayed plan to end the third-party cookie gives advertisers a sense of relief, data deprecation will still continue. The Google […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Boom Or Bust? New forecasts from Dentsu, WARC and others indicate the ad business is in for a boom year in 2021. GroupM projects the US ad market to grow by 15%, and global growth forecasts range from 6.4% (Magna) up to 10.4% (Dentsu). […]
“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 Rachel Parkin, executive vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Some of us may not have been surprised by last week’s announcement that Google is delaying the deprecation 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 Andrew Bloom, Chief Commercial Officer of Data Axle. Our industry spends a lot of time talking about “walled gardens” and the hazards that their policies pose to the broader digital […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rich Calkins, Director of Product Management for OpenX. Publishers are right to be worried about the impact that third-party cookie deprecation in Chrome will have on their programmatic revenue. In 2019, Google ran a study […]
“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 Nancy Marzouk, CEO and founder of MediaWallah Here’s a quick survey for you marketers. As of today, are you up and running with a third-party cookie alternative? Are you […]
Privacy Sandbox may have just hit a serious snag. In a document published last week, the Technical Architecture Group (TAG), a prominent working group within the World Wide Web Consortium, referred to the first-party sets (FPS) proposal within the Privacy Sandbox as “harmful to the web in its current form.” TAG also cast doubt on […]
The dust is slowly starting to settle after Google’s announcement in early March that it won’t build new ways to track users or support email-based IDs once third-party cookies are phased out in Chrome. But the industry still has heaps of questions. Will publisher-provided identifiers (PPIDs) be used on YouTube? Will buyers and sellers be […]
Global media and marketing services company ENGINE is diving even deeper into technology. The company expanded its cookieless offering on Wednesday with Device Graph+, which adds more CTV solutions to its existing planning and buying capabilities across mobile, display and online video. “We’re trying to solve for where the market is headed,” Michael Zacharski, CEO […]
After first teasing it in November, Nielsen released its identity resolution solution for cross-platform measurement on Thursday along with a new cookieless mechanism for measuring campaigns across platforms. The feature, called Identity Sync, serves the function of a pixel without actually being a pixel. Instead of third-party cookies or device IDs, Nielsen’s ID resolution offering […]
Contextual targeting online dates back more than a decade. But the technique is having a renaissance as marketers test out strategies that work in a cookie-free world. In contextual targeting, a machine scans page content and places a digital ad relevant to that context. Natural language processing allows contextual tech providers to understand nuances of […]
Proprietary cookieless identifiers – seems like everybody’s got one these days. “It’s obviously reactive to the impending demise of the cookie,” said Mark Connon, general manager of Experian-owned Tapad, which launched a product on Tuesday called Switchboard that aims to make the growing multitude of cookieless IDs interoperable with each other. Switchboard is a module that […]
Comscore released a solution for audience targeting and activation on Monday that relies on contextual signals rather than cookies. You’d be forgiven for asking the question, “Wait, Comscore has tools for targeting?” It does. Although far more well well-known for its media measurement capabilities, Comscore has had its own suite of audience and contextual targeting […]
Third-party cookies are going away, mobile ad IDs will soon be harder to come by – and the advertising ecosystem is responding with a flurry of deterministic identifiers of its own. LiveRamp has an ID, Nielsen’s got one, the industry is starting to coalesce around Unified ID 2.0 and, on Wednesday, Neustar launched Fabrick ID. Fabrick […]
The Trade Desk is making its first bid for ubiquity for the Unified ID 2.0. Through a partnership with LiveRamp, announced on Tuesday, publishers will be able to access Unified ID 2.0, which is being built by The Trade Desk, through LiveRamp’s Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS), and buyers will be able to transact using LiveRamp’s […]
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 […]
