Apple Hide My Email

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Palm Readers Panera is an early adopter of a palm-scanning biometric data collection product created by Amazon that allows customers to “sign in” with their palms. Doing so links their purchases to Panera’s loyalty program so they can collect rewards. Privacy advocates have […]

Show me a digital publisher, and I’ll show you a team of people busily doing their best to collect first-party data before the clock runs out on third-party cookies. But, depending on the site, roughly 5% of the emails that publishers collect from their readers – fine, call it zero-party data, if you must – are generated by machines.

Without the email address of the person you’re targeting, your digital ad isn’t working as hard as it should. But consumers are getting wary. The advertising industry needs to give consumers back control over communication before machine-generated emails threaten inventory monetization just like ad blockers, writes Keith Petri, CEO & Founder of lockr.