Apple’s announcement Wednesday that it will fully block all third-party cookies in Safari by default and that it’s cracking down on any effort to circumvent tracking prevention shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone. And in terms of what this means for advertisers, publishers and ad tech companies, the answer is: More of the same. […]
A business group within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is planning to ask Google to delay the third-party cookie phase out in Chrome in light of the ongoing coronavirus situation. A member of the group told AdExchanger that the plan is to request that Google extend the deadline, which was tight and somewhat tentative […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Joshua Koran, head of innovation labs at Zeta Global. Before the COVID-19 pandemic dominated the spotlight and our daily lives, the digital advertising industry was rife with speculation about the future of marketing and advertising […]
Are you sitting down? Because there’s some news that actually isn’t related to the coronavirus. After years of moving in this direction, Apple said Tuesday that all third-party cookies for cross-site tracking will be blocked by default in Safari 13.1 for iOS and macOS. You’d be forgiven for scratching your head and saying, “Wait a […]
Data protection in the time of the coronavirus is a tricky proposition. Although health data is considered extremely sensitive under the General Data Protection Regulation and usually requires explicit consent, a subsection of the law includes a clause within Article 9 that allows for the processing of personal information without consent if it’s necessary to protect “against […]
The technical backbone of digital advertising is being ripped out, and the IAB Tech Lab is committed to helping its members figure out what to do when third-party cookies disappear from web browsers. Although the IAB Tech Lab built a universal ID – DigiTrust – that will continue to run as long as third-party cookies […]
“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 Jamie Seltzer, global managing director, mar tech and data strategy, at Havas Media Group. Cookies allow advertisers to know how their ads are performing and, more importantly, where to invest […]
Although LiveRamp prefers to publicly minimize its reliance on third-party cookies, those little text files are the glue that connects offline data with web browsing. “Put it like this,” said Ari Paparo, CEO and co-founder of Beeswax. “If cookies disappeared tomorrow, LiveRamp would be very affected.” To be fair, that would be true for most […]
“Just make this little tweak to your page.” With the clock ticking on third-party cookies, publishers will soon be the only part of the ad ecosystem with direct relationships with their readers. Naturally, everyone else wants in on that relationship. Buy-side ad tech has been more aggressive asking publishers to share user data, even as […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Premesh Purayil, chief technology officer at Ranker. At the IAB’s recent annual leadership meeting, it seemed that advertisers and publishers were fond of saying, “first-party data is the new currency,” while all the vendors […]
After being summarily booted from the board of LG Ads in late 2022, Alphonso’s founding team has won its lawsuit against LG Electronics.
According to emails seen by AdExchanger that were sent to Amazon customers this week, Amazon is officially naming integration partners to offload clients of the Sizmek ad suite, now the Amazon Ad Server.
Given the deprecation of third-party cookies and the reemergence of contextual targeting, 2024 could be a big year for in-game ads – so long as game publishers position themselves as a source of premium inventory.
This was such a busy year in CTV land that we had to launch a dedicated newsletter just to keep up with all the trends, from measurement, currency, targeting and attribution to streaming data, identity, supply-path optimization and new ad formats – just to name a few.
Who got bought in 2023, and who did the buying? Here’s a non-exhaustive list of some of the most notable ad tech M&A activity from this past year (with a few media and agency deals tossed in for good measure).
Snowflake has acquired Samooha, a startup that develops software to make clean room technology accessible to marketers who aren’t necessarily SQL wizards or data scientists.
