third-party cookie deprecation

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The Trade Desk keeps adding new partners to the Unified ID 2.0 roster, but it’s still looking for someone to fill the administrator role after the IAB Tech Lab backed out earlier this year.

Cookie deprecation is hanging over the media and advertising industry like a storm cloud. New identity solutions built on first-party data are clearly one solution, but publishers and advertisers differ on whether they’re building their own proprietary solution or a shared shelter that will scale – and explained why at AdMonsters’ Ops conference in New York City.

There is a ton of fear and hysteria right now on both the buy side and the sell side, as the death of the third-party cookie nears. But there are still plenty of powerful ways to target audiences that don’t involve technology, writes Erik Requidan, Founder and CEO of Media Tradecraft.

While Topics API is a significant improvement from Google’s initial proposal, FLoC, there’s a more efficient and privacy-compliant window into interest-based advertising, says Stephanie Layser, News Corp’s VP of data, identity and ad tech. The answer? Seller-Defined Audiences (SDA).