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The ripple effects of Google’s decisions dominated AdExchanger’s top story list in 2021.

Keeping Track Third-party trackers were hosed by GDPR, right?  Perhaps not.  A University of Oxford study found that third-party trackers in Google Play and Apple iOS apps remain relatively unchanged. “The same handful of third-party tracking companies have similar prevalence and prominence,” according to the Internet Policy Review journal. The number of apps with zero […]

Nothing in ad tech is ever easy. Despite previously signaling interest in serving as an administrator for Unified ID 2.0 earlier this year, the IAB Tech Lab is still on the fence about taking on this role for the open-source initiative to replace third-party cookies with email-based IDs.

Netflix has finally put to rest rumors (hopes and dreams) that it would one day monetize with advertising – but now Zoom is stepping up to the plate. The Zoom CEO rejected the idea of monetizing its free video conferencing during the beginning of the pandemic. But the company is now changing course with plans to […]

Unified ID 2.0 testing could hit a serious snag in Europe. Although beta testing of UID2 in the US and Canada is already well underway, multiple sources tell AdExchanger that The Trade Desk is having trouble lining up an independent administrator to govern and police the use of UID2 in territories where GDPR is the […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Progress is not a straight line or a smooth path, as many in history have reminded us.  It seems to be the case for data […]

Begun, The CDP Wars Have The CDP startup mParticle raised $150 million, bringing its total fundraising to $272 million. mParticle is valued at $800 million, Business Insider reports. The valuation is a smidge short of the billion-dollar club – an arbitrary benchmark, though the CDPs Amperity, Tealium and Segment all recently reached unicorn status. mParticle […]

“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 […]

“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 Gary Kibel, a partner in the digital media, technology and privacy practice group at Davis + Gilbert. Since the early days of the internet, when federal regulators expressed concern that […]

On Thursday, iOS 15 beta testers who opened Apple’s App Store or Stock apps were presented with a pop-up requesting permission to enable personalized advertising. This is the first time Apple has asked users to opt in to personalized ads in its own apps. It’s a big deal, but there’s also a big caveat: Personalized […]