Seller-defined audiences, the IAB Tech Lab’s spec to help publishers work together to monetize their first-party data on the open web, is ready for prime time. The idea behind seller-defined audiences is to make a publisher’s own data and site traffic transactable programmatically across multiple sites and sellers in a privacy-safe way.
What does it mean, in practice, to take a privacy-first approach to addressability? Respecting the consumer, of course. But it also means living in “data privacy hell.”
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Mind Your Own IABeeswax Ad Age dinged the IAB for Meta’s prime placement during the trade group’s Annual Leadership Meeting this week. Three small businesses with the Internet for Growth, an IAB-backed advocacy group, all cited Facebook and Instagram advertising during their presentations. “I […]
First there were birds, and now there are PETs. On Monday, the IAB Tech Lab took the wraps off a new working group focused on developing standards and best practices for deploying PETs, or “privacy-enhancing technologies.” The first meeting is on March 4.
Change is coming to online identity, writes Anthony Katsur, CEO of the IAB Tech Lab. Resist the urge to plan based on hope or cynicism. Instead, focus on a defensible approach, whether you’re creating audiences as a publisher or connecting audiences between an advertiser and a publisher.
Nothing in ad tech is ever easy. Despite previously signaling interest in serving as an administrator for Unified ID 2.0 earlier this year, the IAB Tech Lab is still on the fence about taking on this role for the open-source initiative to replace third-party cookies with email-based IDs.
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by John Sabella, CTO at PubMatic. With international scrutiny and stories about opaque pricing, Google could use some positive PR. Federated Learning of Cohorts 2.0 (what I’m dubbing FLoC2) presents a unique opportunity for Google to prove […]
Platform Peril Seemingly every grocery chain now has a programmatic platform, not to mention Lowe’s, Home Depot, Instacart, GoPuff and buy-now-pay-later companies like Afterpay and Klarna, to be joined soon by Uber, perhaps Shopify and who knows who else. Many of these companies – the BNPLs and all the mobile app-based businesses – got into […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Lior Shvo, Managing Director at Sellers.guide. It’s not rocket science: Advertisers want to reach the right audience, at the right time, at the right price. Here’s the thing, though: Doing that is waaaay too […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Paul Gubbins, VP, CTV Strategy, Publica. While definitions of what actually constitutes a connected TV (CTV) impression are still being widely debated, brand safety companies discover new cases of fraud in streaming on a regular […]
