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Political Advertisers Promoted Polarization. Now We Need To Help Fix It

AdExchanger

The 2016 presidential election gave Americans a taste of the disinformation, misinformation and platform manipulation that’s coming for political media. These strategies aren’t new, but tactics are more effective than ever.

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The Future of AdTech Lies in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)

Clearcode

In the early days of programmatic advertising, ad targeting was limited to the context of the webpage and information about the user from the user-agent string (e.g., an IP address for location). The GDPR came into effect two years later on May 25, 2018, and has changed the way companies collect, store and use personal data.

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Is Microtargeting Giving the Digital Advertising Sector a Bad Rap?

Ad Monsters

It is illegal, for example, for advertisers to use language in their ads suggesting that jobs, housing, or credit opportunities are being offered to people of a certain race, gender, or age or in other protected categories. But ad targeting means that advertisers can hide their preferences in the algorithm.

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Why I’m glad third-party cookies are dying

Martech

Ever since GDPR was rolled out in Europe back in 2016, the rules for how marketers can collect and use data have been getting stricter and stricter, but the real hammer blow will hit next year. A lot of ad targeting options will probably disappear, too, though Google and others are trying to build replacements.).

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Stagwell buys Apollo Program to boost first-party data, SaaS offerings

Digiday

Apollo was incubated within Anomaly (now a Stagwell agency) around 2016 but was never owned by the agency. Jim Caruso, co-founder and CEO of Apollo Group, has some history with Stagwell — or at least part of its predecessor company. The two have been working together, but this represents a full merging of the companies.

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CFPB Warning to Consumer Financial Services Digital Marketing Providers

All About Advertising Law

As explained by the CFPB, “the use of algorithms and business-specific data to determine when to display a specific business’ ads to specific consumers to affect consumer engagement extends well beyond the activities performed by a traditional media source.”.

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Is Micro-targeting Giving the Digital Advertising Sector a Bad Rap?

Ad Monsters

It is illegal, for example, for advertisers to use language in their ads suggesting that jobs, housing, or credit opportunities are being offered to people of a certain race, gender, or age or in other protected categories. But ad targeting means that advertisers can hide their preferences in the algorithm.