Topics API

The more time the marketplace has to evaluate the Privacy Sandbox – and, particularly, the Topics platform – the worse those platforms will look.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Off Topic The ad industry isn’t sold on the Topics API, which becomes widely available in Chrome’s update July 12. The Topics API is “slightly less creepy than storing every last behavioral detail about someone centrally,” Luke Regan, UK managing partner at performance […]

The new version of header bidding software makes it easier to identify specific ad transactions, gives publishers more granular control over how they express user consent to downstream partners, and enables testing of Google’s Privacy Sandbox.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. New Topic, Please Google recently published its latest quarterly progress report to the CMA, the UK’s antitrust regulator, regarding its Chrome Privacy Sandbox proposals – and there are several notable updates from last quarter. For one, Google is considering page-level metadata for the Topics […]

In the two years since the beginning of the end of third-party cookies, we have learned quite a lot about the promises and problems with a post-cookie web. Now, as web developers, we can be pretty confident the end will come – if we can make a few key things happen, writes Don Marti, VP of Ecosystem Innovation at CafeMedia.

UK-based publisher LADbible Group is testing post-cookie alternatives and building its contextual targeting capabilities. But the social-first publisher has yet to be convinced that any of these alternatives will be a truly viable replacement for the much-maligned – and yet still widely used – third-party cookie.

There’s rapid progress being made on the Android version of Privacy Sandbox. Google said it plans to roll out the initial Privacy Sandbox beta to Android 13 mobile devices starting early next year. Google first announced the Android Privacy Sandbox less than a year ago, in February. Android 13 was released in September.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What’s For Sale? Amazon has started down the path of “Googlification.” Which is to say, its search engine has flipped from primarily serving up the best organic options to servicing advertisers with the best prospecting and conquesting opportunities.  There were turf wars in […]

Google isn’t bluffing about quitting its third-party cookie habit. That’s because consumer concerns about data privacy and pressure from regulators around the globe have left Google with no choice but to discontinue third-party cookie usage in Chrome, said Dan Taylor, VP of global ads at Google, at AdExchanger Programmatic I/O conference in New York City on Monday.