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Google challenges Cloudflare’s anti-scraping tech; are dupes plagiarism?; and web traffic is careening off a cliff.

Google’s pivot on IP addresses shows it fears competition; the FTC investigates media watchdogs for advising brands not to spend on X; and Mondelez accuses Aldi of copying its snacks.

Sabrina Sierant joined Mondelez more than 12 years ago, which seems like a prior age in shopping terms. In December 2019, she took on marketing for the US Chips Ahoy business, as Mondelez orchestrated a major rebrand and reinvestment in its cookie brand.

Starting on February 16, Google said it will no longer prohibit fingerprinting for companies that use its advertising products. Oh, how times have changed.

Ad industry growth will slow to single-digits next year; consolidation hits the CPG market; and predicting the future of the FTC based on a commissioner’s pitch to the president-elect.

“I always said, I think we need to change our title, because it’s not the old school shopper marketing,” said Anne Martin, director of shopper marketing for Mondelez International, which owns Oreo, Ritz, and a variety of other snacks.

Mondelēz-owned Chips Ahoy! wants to be Gen Z’s cookie of choice, not a nostalgic snack pick. To this end, the brand is refining its targeting strategy to focus on behaviors, not demographics.

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There was a time in the recent past when anytime Jon Halvorson, Mondelez’s global VP of consumer experience, wanted access to his brand’s own first-party data, the request would trigger a prolonged, nearly farcical chain of events. First, Halvorson would have to email his Google rep. Then his Google rep would email Mondelez’s agency. Then […]

Performance measurement is a natural evolution of ad verification, according to DoubleVerify, which made its metric for measuring campaign effectiveness generally available on Wednesday. The solution, called Authentic Attention, was in beta since January of last year. To power the tool, DoubleVerify is repurposing the more than 50 data signals that it already collects to […]