Data

Despite what you may have heard, artificial intelligence (AI) is not a magic solution for every problem facing the ad industry. But AI can help advertisers optimize the performance of their campaigns. Luxury beauty brand Charlotte Tilbury, for example, recently tested a custom integration with Scibids, a company that specializes in AI-based marketing solutions for the demand side. Over the course of two months, the brand was able to reduce its average cost per acquisition (CPA) by 29%.

It seems like everyone’s talking about the cookieless future, but many publishers are living in the cookieless present – and they need alternatives today. Roughly 65% of the Daily Mail’s programmatic ad inventory, for instance, is currently cookieless, so it has been busy testing cookieless ID solutions to support its programmatic ad business. One of these solutions is Lexicon, provided by supply-side platform 33Across.

Data privacy is a hot topic, but children’s privacy is often kept on the backburner. Compliance with child data protection laws is hard to get right because it involves determining the exact age of your audience – and playing by different rules accordingly. Staying on the right side of COPPA isn’t easy.

Roughly three years ago, dairy and food manufacturer Land O’Lakes tested a customer data platform (CDP) to help with site optimization. People who visited pages about horse management, for example, or how to set up a home chicken coop, were targeted with relevant ads. Land O’Lakes sells farm feed and equipment, not just products you […]

As the FTC is deadlocked awaiting its tiebreaker appointee, both Democrat-appointed FTC commissioner Lina Khan and Republican FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips spoke at the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP) Global Privacy Summit. They disagree on “surveillance advertising,” including what the FTC should or shouldn’t do about online privacy.

The app-based phone service TextNow, which offers free calls and texting subsidized by ads, is especially vulnerable to the ongoing deprecation of mobile device IDs. So TextNow started testing alternate IDs, turning to InMobi’s UnifID and LiveRamp’s Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS) and RampID.

On Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook called for a comprehensive, national privacy law in the US at the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP) Global Privacy Summit in Washington, DC. He also warned against the Open App Markets Act, which he argues will pare back data privacy as an unacceptable trade-off.

Mobile ad exchange Kargo has acquired attention sales platform Parsec Media. The deal reflects Kargo’s investment in attention as a viable metric for post-cookie mobile advertising, said Kargo CEO Harry Kargman.

Customer retention is a beautiful thing. But it doesn’t happen without an ongoing investment in personalized customer experiences, said Ekta Chopra, chief digital officer at cosmetics brand e.l.f., which has been working with customer data platform ActionIQ since 2020.

Adobe is leaning on AI-powered data solutions to bridge the post-cookie identity gap. This fits into Adobe’s broader strategy of using a mixture of automation and artificial intelligence to figure out what people are looking for and to predict how brands can demonstrate value for customers in the moments that matter.