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“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 Travis Lusk, head of Ebiquity Tech, North America Google’s announcement that it has no plans to build a direct replacement for third party cookies or any other tracking tech that […]

Google will not make FLoC-based cohorts available for testing in countries where GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive are in effect. In other words, no FLoCs in Europe. At least for now. During a meeting of the Improving Web Advertising Business Group (IWABG) at the World Wide Web Consortium on Tuesday, Michael Kleber, a Google engineer, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bring It, Joe  Google is certainly going through the ringer this week, especially with a House judiciary antitrust subcommittee hearing that will look into whether laws should be bolstered  to better address monopoly power. But apparently the increased regulator pressure is nothing new. That’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Group Think New rule! Facebook will begin telling users who are about to join a group whether said group has ever violated its Community Standards. Facebook is trying to get its act together when it comes to flagging hate speech and misinformation, especially after […]

This week, The Big Story records live at AdExchanger’s digital conference: Innovation Labs. While our April 20 one-day event will focus on Ecommerce, and our May 18 event will focus on CTV, our event on March 16 was all about Identity. And the big story around identity, no pun intended, is that it’s still a […]

Advertisers and publishers are bracing for upheaval as two major identifiers commonly used for audience-based targeting are set to go away. But are marketers really prepared for the change? Putting aside the China affair, Apple’s IDFA restrictions could be phased in as soon as this week, while third-party cookies in Chrome will be phased out […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. TikTok For Targeting Expect TikTok to start getting more aggressive about ad targeting starting on April 15, Recode reports. For on that very specific date, TikTok’s ads policy is set to change and users will have fewer opt-out options. “You’ll no longer be able […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Breaking The Rules Some big tech companies in China are apparently taking that old adage “rules are meant to be broken” to heart. According to the Financial Times, ByteDance and Tencent are testing a tool to bypass Apple’s new privacy rules and continue tracking […]

EDO expanded its Ad EnGage measurement solution Tuesday so it can cover streaming environments and give brands insight into their competitors’ activity in AVOD platforms, traditionally a blind spot for marketers. The data and analytics company, co-founded by actor Edward Norton in 2015, uses data science and machine learning to measure how TV ads drive […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In It Together? Ad tech companies, publishers and advertisers are hedging their bets in the quest for a new set of audience identifiers. Many plan to support multiple identifiers and targeting methods, including Google’s cohort-based approach. As PubMatic CEO Rajeev Goel tells Digiday’s Seb […]