Paula Connard, chief personalization officer at Horizon Media, on why third-party data is disappointing, why testing proposals in the Chrome Privacy Sandbox isn’t a top priority, why the indie agency decided to build rather than buy a data platform and the questions she’s getting from clients as they deal with signal loss.
Earlier this month, ESP, not to be confused with PPIDs, entered open beta in GAM, so feel free to rev up your UID2s. In English: Google is moving forward with its solution, called encrypted signals from publishers (ESP), that allows publishers to share encrypted first-party signals, including Unified ID 2.0 identifiers, with buy-side platforms of their choosing via Ad Manager. Here’s the DL on all things ESP.
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.
Google’s communications on the Topics API in the Chrome Privacy Sandbox suggest a broad, coarse-grained approach to targeting. But the limited information shared to date leaves many questions unanswered, writes Eric Schmitt, research director at Gartner.
Privacy and data security aren’t just legal issues – they are also customer experience issues. Consumers don’t like their data “changing hands under the table,” says ActionIQ CEO Tasso Argyros.
A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…
Signal loss is muddying Meta’s algorithms and causing short-term pain (and stock dives) for the company formerly known as Facebook. Its partners and advertisers are feeling it, too. But signal loss is also prompting digital transformation and creating strong tailwinds – depending on who you are in ad tech.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Time Is Money The olds may see a TikTok feed and think, “Who can keep up with that?!” But TikTok knows that many of its younger users routinely watch the app at double speed. TikTok’s internal user surveys and data reveal a tween/teen generation […]
Walled gardens evoke privacy as a reason to clamp down on third-party data. But privacy and antitrust will finally catch up to the tech giants this year, and the result will be positive for the industry and for society writ large, writes Jason Bier, chief privacy officer at Adstra Data.
It’s the beginning of the end of the Android Ad ID. What Google’s mobile privacy sandbox announcements means. Plus: Why Facebook’s ad approval process irritates telehealth company, wisp.
If you’re trying to read more than 1,000 pages of legal documents about the US v. Google ad tech antitrust case on Election Day, you’ve come to the right place.
While WaPo recently lost 250,000 subscribers due to concerns over its journalistic independence, NYT added 260,000 subscriptions in Q3 thanks largely to the popularity of its non-news offerings.
Stop thinking about brand safety verification as “insurance” – a way to avoid undesirable content – and start thinking about it as an opportunity to build positive brand associations, says Kenvue’s Mark Proulx.
Google hit some impressive revenue benchmarks in Q3. But investors seemed to only have eyes for AI.
Ad revenue grew 56% YOY even without some of Reddit’s shiny new ad products, including generative AI creative tools and in-comment ads, being fully integrated into its platform.
Freestar adopted a new approach to curation developed by Audigent that gives buyers a priority lane to publisher inventory with higher viewability and attention scores than most open-auction inventory.
