You may have heard of SWAN in Google's Privacy Sandbox, but this SWAN is a community-operated and open source replacement for many use cases supported by third-party cookies. Compared to Google’s Privacy Sandbox offerings, SWAN (Secure Web Addressability Network) provides a legally compliant solution that will improve people’s privacy. No…
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We spoke with Mike Racic, Global Head of Programmatic and Data, Fandom, about the importance of turning users into consumers or fans, working with the right partners on robust identity solutions to future-proof your business, and the disservice publishers do themselves by just thinking of first-party data for the purpose of…
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Despite the FLoC origin trial limitations, we learned a fair amount about how FLoC might work in the future such as how many cohorts there might be (34 Thousand), how many users would be in a Cohort (at least 2K Synced users), and how often the Cohort is calculated (every…
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Without a cookie reprieve, digital advertising and media monetization will most likely rely on a number of alternatives going forward, and first-party data, in particular, will be key to any future strategies. Harnessing first-party data at scale will ensure marketers can keep delivering relevant and engaging ads across the web…
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The Tech Lab's Open Source Initiative will make the code and guidelines of ad tech projects — like UID 2's Open Source ID framework, proof of concept libraries for implementing authenticated connections using Ads.cert, and brand suitability test benchmarks — available to everyone, all in one place.
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Google released the timeline for the Privacy Sandbox and is finally bidding adieu to third-party cookies in 2023— maybe it's for real this time. This estimated timeline is based on origin trials, Privacy Sandbox use cases, readiness at scale, and ending support for third-party cookies. Chrome will continue to update…
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In a recent webinar, Personalization & Privacy: Your Third-Party Cookie Replacement Game Plan, Arshdeep Sood, Solutions Engineer, OneTrust, laid out a plan for a future without cookies, explaining why it's important publishers have a CMP in place to adhere to regulatory guidelines, as well as why it's important to start…
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Lotame released the findings of “Beyond the Cookie: The Future of Advertising for Marketers & Publishers,” during a recent webinar with AdMonsters. The results: Three in five agreed that people-based identity solutions are necessary. The same respondents emphasized the need for interoperability.
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There’s a certain amount of volatility inherent in programmatic advertising — it is based on auction dynamics, after all — which is why many publishers rely on standards like Prebid to help balance out some of the chaos. So we caught up with Tom Levesque, VP Product Management, OpenX, to…
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The upcoming loss of third-party identifiers within Chrome, and the changes that Apple has already made in that space, means that first-party data is in a strong position. Losing cross-domain identifiers only strengthens publishers’ first-party data, as a viable option for advertisers to continue reaching consumers. And this first-party data can…
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