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Days before UA sunset most sites still not using GA4

Martech

2012: People are using more devices to go online, so Google releases the Analytics Tag (analytics.js) to track them. UA relies on third-party cookies to ID users and new privacy regulations, most notably the European Union’s GDPR, meant no more cookies. 2017: Google releases Global Site Tag (gtag.js).

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In the wake of the Universal Analytics sunset, marketers are suddenly flush with options

Digiday

Sponsored by Piwik PRO Google’s cookie isn’t the only tool on the Alphabet giant’s chopping block. In July, Google is sunsetting Universal Analytics, also known as Google Analytics 3, which it introduced in 2012 to set a standard for collecting and organizing user data.

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Digiday+ Research: A guide to the top 10 ID alternatives for publishers

Digiday

Identity technologies are the backbone of programmatic advertising, which has been dependent on tracking user data and third-party cookies for decades. In fact, most non-premium publishers depend on ad targeting through third-party cookies for over 80% of their ad revenue. Does this solution use third-party cookie data?

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The WIR: FAST to Make Up 20 Percent of UK AVOD Market, Apple TV+ Makes Key CTV Advertising Hire, ITV Sees Further Linear Declines

VideoWeek

The FTT found that legitimate interests can be a lawful basis for processing personal data for direct marketing purposes, but Experian was in breach of GDPR for failure to notify a subset of its data subjects. video services, TiVo has found, breaching double-figures for the first time since the company started tracking the metric in 2012.