With the planned deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome coming next year, The Financial Times is using a solution designed to help marketers replace–and potentially improve upon–one of the cookies’ most vital functions: ad frequency capping. And early indications of its success are encouraging. Introduced earlier this year, the publisher’s frequency optimization tool aims to…
Google is introducing a tool throughout its ad-tech products today that is designed to help publishers and buyers track ad-tech fees, a contentious area of programmatic where Google has not always been seen as an honest broker. While the tool thus far has not revealed any hidden fees, programmatic execs would like to see more…
This week, Texas became the 10th state–and the fifth state this year–to pass a consumer privacy bill that gives the state’s residents more control over their data. With a population of over 30 million people, Texas will emerge as the second largest state after California to pass a bill of this kind. If enacted into…
Advertising spend is expected to grow globally this year, with inflation driving it to $727.9 billion and $3 of every $5 going to digital channels over the next three years. However, according to Dentsu’s latest biannual global forecast, digital spend is likely to slow to single-digit growth in the future. Dentsu is predicting a 3.3%…
Marketer response to Meta reportedly building its own decentralized Twitter clone app this summer is tepid, three industry leads told Adweek. That’s mostly due to questions circling around the platform’s handling of data, adoption and monetization. Meta is reportedly working on a text-based app that would compete against Twitter, which has had its fair share…
If it feels like we’ve been talking about the death of the cookie for years, it’s because we have. Google’s first hint that the third party cookie would depart its popular chrome browser was in 2019. Now 2024, the current demise date, is fast approaching. Yet many marketers still aren’t ready. Surveying 1,000 major brands…
In-house agencies are not a nascent trend anymore, according to a new study from the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), in which 82% of ANA member respondents said their company has an in-house agency. The ANA conducts the study, called, “The Continued Rise of the In-House Agency: 2023 Edition,” every five years. Its results show…
Rebecca Shore chose a non-traditional career path in the legal field, one where the sky was the limit. Shore decided to join the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), instead of working at a law firm after graduating from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 2006. At NASA, she was…
The Federal Trade Commission has accused Meta of violating a suite of child privacy protections such as the Children’s Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and proposed sweeping changes on how the social giant operates, including a ban on monetizing kids’ data. “Meta has successfully stayed out of the privacy spotlight in recent months, especially as the…
The trend of state-level privacy laws is gaining momentum in the U.S. as Montana and Tennessee became the latest to pass comprehensive legislation. Both bills cleared their state legislatures in April and await their respective governors’ signatures before becoming law. If passed, Montana’s law would become effective on Oct. 1, 2024, followed by Tennessee on…
In 2008, the global financial system was in shambles. The vertiginous drop in the stock market had brought Wall Street to its knees. Years later, in 2014, the reverberations of The Great Recession were still being felt within the walls of Wells Fargo. Global banking regulator The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) introduced regulation…
For all marketer excitement about the capabilities of data clean rooms, there has been a growing misconception that the data within them is automatically privacy safe. While there haven’t (yet) been any high-profile data breaches connected with clean rooms, some in the ad industry are trying to limit the likelihood that there will be, and…
Automaker Hyundai’s U.K. campaign was released in January to put the correctly pronounced brand’s name on the lips of the public, nearly tripling its brand consideration score in the process. According to the research company YouGov, the campaign, created to drive awareness of how to correctly pronounce the name of the South Korean motor company,…
The revised, watered-down, post-Brexit alternative to GDPR is working its way through the U.K. parliament. If it passes into law, it will put U.K. businesses at odds with the European Union, potentially causing headaches for international data collection processes. While the government claims the new bill could create 4.7 billion pounds ($5.6 billion) in savings…
Marketing leaders are experts at juggling competing priorities. At any given time, there are dozens of big ideas and business demands vying for space on our to-do lists. But when done right, working toward multiple goals shouldn’t scatter your focus. This year will be about understanding your customers on a granular level you may not…
The Cond? Nast title Glamour launched a digital storefront on Wednesday called The Glamour 100, a shoppable grid featuring 100 curated products from women-owned brands, as part of its efforts to build commerce and advertising revenue. The landing page is part of a larger franchise, called ByWomen, which also includes a permanent database of women-owned…
As we celebrate Black History Month in the United States, it’s important to remember our purpose and goal to continue striving for racial equality and justice. We also need to recognize that for too long, the history and experiences of Black people have been marginalized and misunderstood. How can we tell a story we don’t…
Publisher ad management outfit CafeMedia, which manages the tech and sales for titles like MacRumors and Thought Catalog, is working with tech platform LiveRamp to offer its data clean room Safe Haven solution to the millions of readers across CafeMedia’s 4,000 creators’ sites. The move will ultimately lead to higher publisher ad revenues. This expands…
Ruffled by the industry’s lobbying efforts to weaken legislative privacy laws, D.C.-based nonprofit the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), is pushing for states to emulate a bipartisan federal privacy bill that was indefinitely stalled in Congress last year. Lawmakers in Massachusetts, Illinois, Indiana and New York are modeling state privacy laws based on the American…
We are living in an era of permanent change. What’s relevant to your customer today may be in their rearview mirror tomorrow. Sweeping shifts brought on by emerging technology, geopolitics, economic headwinds and a global pandemic have created both constant turmoil and opportunity for marketers. Indeed, not since the dot-com era have the stakes of…
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