There’s been kerfuffle after kerfuffle (after kerfuffle) at the World Wide Web Consortium since Google first announced its plans in January 2020 to kill off third-party cookies in Chrome. At the time, Google encouraged ad tech companies to join the W3C’s Improving Web Advertising Business Group (IWABG) as a way to provide feedback on and […]
The European Commission verified in writing on Friday that Google’s use of data to fuel its ad tech business is a focus of its ongoing antitrust investigation. And here’s the kicker: “Google’s proposals to deprecate third-party cookies are within the scope.” As Brussels-based journalist Alexander Fanta highlighted on Twitter, this could mean by extension that […]
Eric Seufert summed it up on Twitter: “Quelle surprise!” Sources tell the Financial Times that Apple plans to expand its App Store business with a new ad slot appearing in the “Suggested” apps section of the store’s search page. This would give advertisers the opportunity to reach potential users before they actually search for something. […]
UPDATE: 6:15 p.m. ET And so speaketh Apple. Sort of. In a brief blog post published on Tuesday, Apple appears to finally share a specific date for AppTrackingTransparency enforcement: April 26. In the post, Apple notes that its ATT framework will be required for all apps beginning with the upcoming public release of iOS 14.5, […]
Rumors are flying that Apple will finally (finally!) rip off the IDFA band-aid and release iOS 14.5 in tandem with its “Spring Loaded” product event scheduled for tomorrow (Tuesday). Always buttoned up, Apple didn’t announce an agenda, of course. The consensus is that the event will be mainly a showcase for flashy new hardware, like […]
Privacy Sandbox may have just hit a serious snag. In a document published last week, the Technical Architecture Group (TAG), a prominent working group within the World Wide Web Consortium, referred to the first-party sets (FPS) proposal within the Privacy Sandbox as “harmful to the web in its current form.” TAG also cast doubt on […]
Criteo has started testing the single sign-on (SSO) solution – called OpenPass – that will serve as the consumer-facing component of Unified ID 2.0, the open source industry initiative that aims to use email as an alternative to third-party cookies. In November, Criteo was one of the first companies to join Unified ID 2.0, which is […]
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 […]
Advertisers and publishers are bracing for upheaval as two major identifiers commonly used for audience-based targeting are set to go away. But are marketers really prepared for the change? Putting aside the China affair, Apple’s IDFA restrictions could be phased in as soon as this week, while third-party cookies in Chrome will be phased out […]
The dust is slowly starting to settle after Google’s announcement in early March that it won’t build new ways to track users or support email-based IDs once third-party cookies are phased out in Chrome. But the industry still has heaps of questions. Will publisher-provided identifiers (PPIDs) be used on YouTube? Will buyers and sellers be […]
