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Marketers Find New Ways to Buy Programmatic Ads Without Relying on User Data

Adweek

Marketers and adtech firms have latched onto metadata to improve ad targeting on the web and connected television, as data quality worsens with cookie decline. Metadata is data about the environment of the ad, said Mike O'Sullivan, co-founder of data firm Sincera. It's data that puts the transaction in context," he said.

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CTV Is Immune To Cookie Deprecation – Here’s What That Means For Ad Targeting

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Sponsored post bySean GalliganCROPublicaSPONSORED BY:With so much interest around the delayed deprecation of third-party cookies, it’s easy to forget that the TV industry is building a scaled and addressable advertising ecosystem – without third-party cookies.

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Data and confused: The increasing complexity of digital ad targeting

Martech

As the business world struggles to understand the implications of the revolving news of the third-party cookie ban, digital ad targeting is growing more complex than ever. Google recently announced an extension of the third party cookie ban however the complexity and uncertainty remain. Data incentivization.

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An Overview Of Post-Cookie Collaboration Tools – And Their Shortcomings

AdExchanger

Ongoing cookie deprecation and signal loss have eliminated access to the IDs that have underpinned targeting and measurement in marketing. Safari and Firefox no longer support third-party cookies for ad targeting, and Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention makes it hard to use mobile IDs.

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The Magic Cookie, Longtime Enabler Of Ad Tech, Dies At 30

AdExchanger

It was best-known for something it wasn’t actually designed to do: targeting ads. The cookie – originally named “magic cookie” – which single-handedly enabled a generation of ad targeting, measurement and some mayhem, died this year.

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3 future-proofing strategies for Google’s third-party cookie crackdown

Martech

After four years of anticipation, Google officially began restricting third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users (about 30 million people) this January. This move lays the groundwork for a broader third-party cookie phaseout in the second half of 2024.

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Sins Of The Cookie: How Third-Party Cookies Set The Industry Back

AdExchanger

Google Chrome’s third-party cookie deprecation plan is in effect, and the industry continues to await the fallout from the death of the cookie. However, it’s worth recognizing that the third-party cookie actually stymied the development of digital advertising.

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