Apple made an announcement that might have digital advertising ramifications sooner than news about the company’s DSP. Apple’s forthcoming “Lockdown Mode” can protect consumers from illicit activity and unwanted tracking. But it’s designed for a specific group of individuals vulnerable to attacks – plus, it can impact functionality in a way most users won’t tolerate.
IP addresses – internet protocol, for the uninitiated – have been used as a mechanism for location targeting and cross-device measurement almost since the day digital advertising was born. But it’s always been a dicey proposition from a privacy perspective – and now the writing’s on the wall with Apple’s plans to remove IP addresses from […]
“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 Simon Harris, head of sales EMEA at MightyHive. Safari has just beaten Chrome’s 2022 deadline for killing the third-party cookie (while also delivering blows to several other tracking methods). Legislation and […]
“Just make this little tweak to your page.” With the clock ticking on third-party cookies, publishers will soon be the only part of the ad ecosystem with direct relationships with their readers. Naturally, everyone else wants in on that relationship. Buy-side ad tech has been more aggressive asking publishers to share user data, even as […]
“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 Harry Kargman, founder and CEO at Kargo. The advertising industry is facing sweeping and unprecedented changes, where user targeting is being challenged with extinction. We need to accept the fact that the […]
Unlike competing browsers like Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome has to strengthen user privacy without undermining online advertising. Chrome walked that razor’s edge when it revealed plans to create a “privacy sandbox” that will increase protections to user privacy without breaking programmatic advertising that funds publisher content. To bolster its position, Google claimed […]
Marketers have a lot to contend with in 2019. Heads are spinning with thoughts of consumer-driven privacy concerns, different regulations in different regions, Apple blocking third-party tracking on Safari and how to buy TV in a world of digital delivery. At AdExchanger’s Industry Preview conference Thursday, Google’s vice president of ad platforms Sean Downey considered […]
