Google isn’t a fan of using email-based identifiers as a replacement for third-party cookies. “We don’t believe these solutions will meet rising consumer expectations for privacy, nor will they stand up to rapidly evolving regulatory restrictions, and therefore aren’t a sustainable long-term investment,” Google’s director of product management for ads privacy and trust, David Temkin, […]
Xandr announced three integrations with identity initiatives on Wednesday: Europe’s netID login consortium, LiveRamp IdentityLink and Unified ID 2.0 (natch). The purpose is to enable digital planning, targeting segmentation and measurement using authenticated IDs via Xandr’s programmatic buying platform, Xandr Invest, and through its ad exchange, Xandr Monetize. But these partnerships are also part of […]
One of the biggest questions dogging Unified ID 2.0 has been answered. Independent industry organization Prebid.org will serve as operator of the initiative. Unified ID 2.0 is a collective industry effort, originally spearheaded by The Trade Desk, to create an email-based alternative to third-party cookies. Prebid, which has roughly 100 member companies, is also the […]
The Trade Desk is looking for the industry’s stamp of approval for the open source Unified ID 2.0 framework. On Thursday, in response to a recent call from the Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media (PRAM) for input on potential new technologies to replace cookies and other identifiers, The Trade Desk submitted the code for UID […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. U & Me And UID 2.0 Welcome to the Unified ID 2.0 cocktail party, SpotX. The video SSP, which is owned by RTL, is the latest company to sign up in support of UID 2.0, the open source industry initiative originally spearheaded by The […]
Although it’s too early to predict how the antitrust lawsuits filed against Google and Facebook late last year will play out, one immediate outcome is more awareness of how digital advertising functions. “Many of the topics we’ve been so obsessed with in the ad tech industry are no longer just being talked about within the […]
2020 brought an identity crisis to the online advertising industry. The year started with Google answering the until-then theoretical question of what might happen to third-party cookies at some unknown point in the distant future. In July, Apple made a similar move with the announcement that its proprietary mobile device ID, the IDFA, would soon […]
You didn’t think 2020 would end without at least one more Unified ID 2.0 announcement, did you? IRIS.TV, a video data platform with its own contextual video marketplace, is joining the Unified ID 2.0 initiative, the company said on Wednesday. UID 2.0 is an open source identifier based on email addresses that’s part of the […]
After slipping in the DSP rankings to Google earlier this year, Amazon has reasserted its no. 1 status as advertisers’ preferred platform. Bolstered by the last few months’ ecommerce surge, Amazon has reclaimed the top spot after having slipped behind Google and The Trade Desk in Q1 2020 – based on the Q4 2020 Advertiser Perceptions […]
The Washington Post said Wednesday that it will adopt the Unified ID 2.0 framework – the first publisher to do so after a string of ad tech companies have tossed their hats into the ring over the past few months. The Post will allow advertisers to transact using the ID on its own site and will […]
