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Publishers can reach relevant audiences at scale and with greater specificity through Optable’s new planner agent.

The Google Chrome team is getting closer to deciding on its cookie consent mechanism. And  Paramount resolves its four-month standoff with Nielsen, as the mechanics behind currency change forever.

What captured our readers’ attention this year was both a continuation of and a departure from years past. Our top 10 stories in the past year coalesce around two themes: kookies and kwality. Ahem, cookies and quality.

What will Chrome’s third-party consent look like? We offer our best guess. Plus, we spotlight the controversy around ID bridging. The tactic supplies IDs for cookieless inventory through a spectrum of approaches, and not all of them are buyer-approved.

The concept of ID bridging has long been the foundation of programmatic advertising, writes LiveIntent CEO Matt Keiser. What is cookie matching but an early iteration of ID bridging? 

Yahoo may have earned itself a stay of execution with The Trade Desk. Plus, TV buyers are clinging to Nielsen for yet another upfront season.

Google is testing a new badge for shopping-related searches on some mobile devices. Plus, should brands have political opinions?

In a world without cookies, ads aren’t viewable and yield goes down. But it’s still early days. Mediavine SVP Amanda Martin shares early results from its Privacy Sandbox tests.

Many brands, startups and well-known CPGs are missing the more effective retailer data sets at their disposal: loyalty programs, writes Lauren Littlejohn, director of data science and research at 84.51°.

The expiration date for third-party cookies has been extended for another year. We talk through what the delay will mean for ad tech. Plus, an entire corner of the LUMAscape now exists within the Tremor-Amobee deal, the ultimate example in ad tech consolidation.

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

When Google delayed the end of third-party cookies, ad tech’s first reaction was “stunned silence,” said Matt Barash, SVP of global publishing and platform partnerships at Zeotap and a self-described “ad tech socialite.” For this week’s episode, we talk through the fallout of Google’s decision to delay the phaseout of the third-party cookie by nearly […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take Two Google seems perennially mired in litigation these days. The latest legal salvo hurled at the tech giant is a $4.16 billion class action lawsuit in the UK alleging that Google illegally tracked 4.4 million iPhone users nearly 10 years ago in England […]

This article is sponsored by InMobi Exchange. Addressability – how brands can reach specific audiences through advertising – is in the spotlight, as legal frameworks (GPDR, CCPA) and privacy initiatives (Google no longer supporting third-party cookies, Apple depreciating IDFAs) impact user-level targeting. On top of this, the consumer media landscape is now more fragmented than […]

“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 Nancy Marzouk, CEO and founder of MediaWallah Here’s a quick survey for you marketers. As of today, are you up and running with a third-party cookie alternative? Are you […]

“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 Hugo Loirot, partner and managing director at fifty-five.  What do people remember about Einstein’s work? E=mc2. Thousands of pages of Descartes writings? Cogito, ergo sum. The Eagles’ thirty singles? Hotel […]

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Let the FLoC testing begin (but not in Europe, yet). On Tuesday, Chrome started rolling out initial origin testing of its Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) proposal with a small percentage of users in the United States and across Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Philippines. “FLoC is still in development and […]

“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 Mark Sturino, VP of data and analytics, at Good Apple. The “death of the cookie” provides an opportunity for all brands to learn from pharmaceutical marketers and leverage new AI […]

“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 Zora Senat, VP of Partnerships at Infutor Data Solutions. The world of cookies is evolving. The new cookie-less world will require a different mindset for marketers and advertisers, and the […]

“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 James Avery, founder and CEO at Kevel. The digital ad industry seems faced with an existential choice – go Google’s way, and give up your destiny while bearing the consequences. […]

“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 Melinda Han Williams, Chief Data Scientist at Dstillery. There’s been a great deal of hand-wringing over the future of identity in digital advertising. Google Chrome’s plan to retire 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 Seraj Bharwani, Chief Strategy Officer at AcuityAds The behavior-tracking infrastructure that fueled the ad tech industry over the past two decades is undergoing a major overhaul. And the remodeled tracking pathways […]

“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 Frances Giordano, group director at Media Kitchen.  As we move closer to the February 2022 sunset of third-party cookies by Google, marketers must identify alternative ways to capture information and execute […]

Ad-Lib.io, a company founded by a group of former Google execs in 2017 and which offers creative workflow tools, has clinched an additional $6 million in Series A financing. The latest round brings its total funding to $12 million in less than two years and will be used to accelerate the growth of the London-based […]

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem. This week, we reprint a cartoon from 2013 that’s highly relevant today…

“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 Luke Taylor, COO at TrafficGuard. Tech’s push for a privacy-focused future is impacting everyone from publishers to ecommerce marketplaces, but few have felt the effects more than marketers. Amid vanishing […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Falling Short? Facebook updated its misinformation policy to include vaccine-related content, as the company continues fighting against claims that it isn’t doing enough to protect its billions of users. The Wall Street Journal reports that the social networking giant will over the coming weeks […]

If you’ve been in the digital advertising sphere for a while you know I’m bullish on the internet. As one of the founders of the IAB and early vice chair, I’ve championed the web as the best advertising medium – period. But as I look back on the past 25 years, I’m struck by a […]