Google recently began testing Topics API, the latest part of its Chrome Privacy Sandbox. It’s a significant improvement over FLoC, but it leaks audience information from trustworthy sites and enriches large platforms at the expense of niche or independent sites – especially sites that invest time and skill to cover categories in detail, writes Don Marti, VP of ecosystem innovation at CafeMedia.
At Programmatic I/O in Las Vegas, CafeMedia’s Paul Bannister, Tinuiti’s Nirish Parsad and Insider’s Jana Meron weighed in on the ad industry’s worsening signal-loss problem due to the deprecation of device identifiers and third-party cookies.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Path Less Traveled More publishers have signed up for OpenPath, The Trade Desk’s direct buy-to-sell-side integration. Since launching in February, TTD says it’s “registered interest” (interesting turn of phrase) in OpenPath from more than 100 publishers. The latest crop to, uh, register […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Working Their Retails Off Retail media is in growth-stage limbo. Retailers have flooded the category with no guarantee advertising will pay off. The latest is the craft store Michaels, which launched a retail media platform on Wednesday in partnership with Criteo. Amazon sets the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. For Pod’s Sake Bloomberg points out that, despite the hype, there hasn’t been a hit podcast in many years. No newcomer has usurped Joe Rogan or NPR or broken through the general noise like Serial. But is that actually so bad? Podcasting is […]
“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 Rachel Parkin, executive vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Some of us may not have been surprised by last week’s announcement that Google is delaying the deprecation of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Amazon’s ID Add to cart: proprietary third-party cookie replacement. Digiday reports that Amazon is working on an identifier of its own that would be available through its DSP and to outside publishers through its supply-side ad tech division. It’s not clear exactly when an […]
The third-party cookie is halfway out the door, so CafeMedia is already ushering in its replacement: email-based IDs. The ad management firm started working with LiveRamp ATS (Authenticated Traffic Solution) eight months ago. ATS scrambles an email address and puts the user’s identity in a secure envelope for SSPs to open and resolve. Buyers then […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, executive vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. As we look ahead to life after third-party cookies, publishers and advertisers alike are on the hunt for solutions. To date, most of […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Bannister, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CafeMedia. Just under a year ago, Google announced the deprecation of third-party cookies (3PC) in Chrome in early 2022. To replace 3PC, Google pointed to the Privacy […]
