data collection

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

Bacardi doesn’t have a digital marketing strategy, per se – because it’s all digital, says Laila Mignoni, the brand’s global VP of marketing and creative excellence.

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.

Like F1 cars, the marketing world also generates data. The difference is it’s not connected to anything that can help brand managers make the kind of data-fueled decisions that have been a game changer for F1 teams, writes Andy Hopkinson, strategic director of Extreme Reach.

IAB Europe’s Transparency & Consent Framework is flawed and unfixable – and it’s time for the ad industry to stop desperately looking for workarounds, writes Ruben Schreurs, group chief product officer at Ebiquity.

The word of the year, at least according to Collins English Dictionary, is “NFT.” Putting aside the fact that NFT is an acronym and not a word, consider a proposal that the word of the year for 2021 be “consent.”

“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 Miller, director of marketing communications at Permission.io. California Attorney General Rob Bonta recently sent enforcement letters that clarify the scope of what is considered a data sale under the […]

“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 Cory Munchbach, chief operating officer at BlueConic. It’s been a bad couple of weeks for what I’ll call “the data economy.” A new study from the journal Nature Communications laid bare […]

Multinational brands and ad tech companies doing business in China will have new hoops to jump through starting November 1. That’s when China’s newly passed privacy regulation, the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), goes into effect. The National People’s Congress, China’s top legislative body, voted to adopt the law on August 21. That doesn’t leave […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Who’s Counting? The verdict is in: Nielsen likely undercounted some pandemic audiences … not the greatest look for a company who’s entire schtick is counting things. As Variety reports, the Media Rating Council found a “generally consistent pattern of underreporting of viewing” by Nielsen […]