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A Brief Timeline of Signal Loss

VideoWeek

By 2024, everyone working in digital advertising was tired of hearing about cookie deprecation, writes Thomas Bernal, VP Go To Market at Ogury. What signal loss refers to is the erosion of data that was once used as a reliable proxy for consumer behaviours, or the consumer themselves, such as the famous or infamous third-party cookie.

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Advertisers slowly acknowledge that measurement, not targeting, might be the bigger cookie deprecation challenge

Digiday

As third-party cookies fade into oblivion, marketers are awakening to a harsh reality: The era of a single source of truth for measurement is over. This shift has been brewing for quite some time — to be precise, since about four years ago, when Google first voiced concerns about third-party cookies in its browser.

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6 Alternatives to Third-Party Cookies and Mobile IDs in AdTech

Clearcode

Ever since Google Chrome announced in January 2020 that it’ll be shutting off support for third-party cookies in the next few years, companies operating in the programmatic advertising industry have been scrambling to find reliable and effective alternatives to continue operating.

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Days before UA sunset most sites still not using GA4

Martech

2017: Google releases Global Site Tag (gtag.js). UA relies on third-party cookies to ID users and new privacy regulations, most notably the European Union’s GDPR, meant no more cookies. UA relies on third-party cookies to ID users and new privacy regulations, most notably the European Union’s GDPR, meant no more cookies.

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The Demise of Third-Party Cookies in AdTech: Why Are They Being Phased Out?

Clearcode

At the center of this are third-party cookies and their demise in popular web browsers. In this article, we explain what third-party cookies are, how they work, how they are used in programmatic advertising, why they’re going away, and what the alternatives are. Table of Contents What Are Third-Party Cookies?

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On TikTok, DTC brand Crumbl Cookies looks to trends to target Gen Z

Digiday

Direct-to-consumer brand Crumbl Cookies is turning up its TikTok activity and leveraging an organic, trend-focused approach to better target Gen-Z. million followers from June 2021 to June 2022), as well as posting its own cookie-themed content. The brand has 3.03 million followers on Instagram, 1.59

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Event Diary - MAU Vegas 2017

InMobi

In this edition of the InMobi Event Diary, we are looking at the highlights and developments from MAU Vegas 2017, an event organized by Grow.co What started as something very desktop oriented and cookie-dependant, using only static ads creatives and vendor-controlled attribution has now greatly evolved for the current mobile-first landscape.