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A Brief Timeline of Signal Loss

VideoWeek

Whether youre new to the industry or just need a refresher, heres a timeline of signal loss in digital advertising, from the moment Apple fired the starting pistol back in 2017 to this years predicted low of just 13 percent audience addressability via cookies. This game of cat and mouse between Apple and ad tech has continued ever since.

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Oracle Quietly Exits the Advertising Business

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Moat, acquired for a reported $850 million in 2017, brought oracle into the ad verification space. AddThis had previously had to shut off access to data from EU users, in order to comply with GDPR. Shortly after it acquired cross-device vendor Crosswise for roughly $50 million.

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Oracle says goodbye to the adtech business

Martech

But changes in the advertising industry, including regulations like GDPR and the growing power of walled gardens like Meta, meant the data Oracle’s tools collected couldn’t always be used the way the company or its users envisioned. But the company had to halt AddThis usage in Europe in 2019 once GDPR took effect.

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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. Universal Analytics has new website tracking codes for websites and tools providing more in-depth information about user behavior.

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Web analytics is badly broken 

Martech

For example, In 2017, Apple introduced Intelligent Tracking Prevention , one of the company’s first forays into privacy-enhancing technologies, which limits the effectiveness of third-party trackers in Safari. But it’s not only Big Tech changing the game.

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

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It wasn’t long before governments started to take notice and in 2016, the European Union released its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to provide EU citizens and residents with rights regarding their privacy and data. But the biggest privacy changes were yet to come.

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Littledata Releases White Paper on Trends in First-Party Data for Ecommerce

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Since we launched our first Shopify app in 2017, a lot has changed. Littledata founder and CEO Edward Upton says: “New data privacy regulations like GDPR have come into effect, iOS14 began widespread tracking prevention, and major tech platforms like Google are doing away with third-party cookies for good.