consent management platform

Two key players in the consent management space are merging: French CMP Didomi is buying Sourcepoint for an undisclosed sum.

Consent is becoming one of the most important requirements in online advertising – and InMobi wants to help publishers collect it.

CMP, meet CTV. On Tuesday, French consent management platform Didomi released an expanded version of its offering for the web and mobile apps that supports consent compliance for connected TV, OTT and smart TVs. Didomi’s TV software development kit is also TCF-compliant, meaning that publishers, advertisers and vendors can share consent strings as part of […]

Add the term “privacy measurement” to your repertoire. On Monday, consent management platform Sourcepoint launched a tool to help ad buyers make sure their media suppliers are up to snuff when it comes to privacy compliance, brand safety, brand suitability and data ethics. Privacy Lens, as it’s called, uses scanning technology to measure how well […]

The Google consent management platform (CMP) Funding Choices will finally integrate with the IAB Europe’s Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF), the collaborative industry solution for passing consent data signals in the supply chain. Google also said Thursday that Funding Choices now includes compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). When traffic is from the […]

Consent management platform (CMP) vendors are largely overpromising what their solutions can do out of the box, earning them an unflattering spot in Gartner’s most recent Hype Cycle report. The report, released Monday, is Gartner’s first Hype Cycle study focused solely on digital advertising. In Gartner’s view, CMPs are just about to reach the “peak […]

Consent usually gets lumped in with privacy and regulatory compliance. But it’s about a lot more than that, said Romain Gauthier, CEO of French consent management platform Didomi. On Tuesday, Didomi closed a 5 million euro (roughly $5.6 million) Series A led by Breega and Bpifrance. “There is a lot of value in getting a […]

Mobile data company Ogury raised $50 million in Series C funding on Thursday with an eye on international expansion and consumer privacy-related R&D. The round, led by existing investor Idinvest Partners, brings the company’s total funding to $92 million over the last six years, and follows a $21 million extension of its Series B in […]

Compliance tools are coming out of the woodwork with less than a month to go until the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect on Jan. 1. The latest is a consent management platform from LiveRamp released on Wednesday, which the data onboarding company built using technology it acquired from Europe-based CMP Faktor in […]

Quantcast began monetizing its consent management platform (CMP) business for the first time on Thursday with the launch of Choice Premium, a paid version of the publisher tool. Quantcast Choice was released about a year ago with the introduction of the IAB Europe’s CMP registry and the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF), the collaborative industry […]

The IAB Europe’s GDPR Transparency and Consent Framework – which many ad tech companies now depend on to pass user consent strings – could be on shaky legal ground. On Nov. 9, France’s data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (the CNIL), issued a warning against a small French ad tech company called […]

Publishers who use a consent management platform (CMP) saw CPMs rise 9% and fill rates go up 5% post-GDPR, according to analysis of publishers using Mediavine, which manages ads for thousands of sites. Meanwhile, publishers who didn’t use a CMP for their European Union traffic saw CPMs dive precipitously. With no targeted ads, CPMs fell […]