Adweek

JANUARY 19, 2024

As we collectively wade into 2024--crafting budgets, plans and strategies for the year ahead--there are two events for which we must prepare: cookie deprecation and the U.S. If they don't get their plans in place now, political campaigns and brand advertisers will be left scrambling for impressions in the middle of the $10 billion.

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Adweek

JANUARY 30, 2024

Chief among the concerns at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Annual Leadership Meeting in Marco Island, Fla., this week is that Google Chrome's Privacy Sandbox, a pack of solutions to replace third-party cookies, is not yet ready to meet the demands of programmatic advertising.

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Ad Monsters

JANUARY 13, 2025

Kerel Cooper, GumGums new CMO, unpacks the future of contextual advertising, curated marketplaces, and DEI, revealing key ad tech trends for 2025. Ad tech is on the cusp of a major shift. Beyond the tech talk, hes also a champion for diversity and inclusion in an industry ripe for fresh voices and perspectives.

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illumin

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The big topic of 2024 was third-party cookies – so what’s their status going into 2025? While Google abandoned its plans to phase out cookies, other tech companies have stuck to their guns. Despite the search giant’s decisive lack of action, forecasters predict that cookies will go away eventually.

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Adweek

JULY 26, 2024

In an industry that moves as fast as digital advertising, marketers are understandably on guard for policy and technology shifts that could upend their status quo--not to mention their ROI. The continually delayed--and now completely dead--deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome is a perfect example of the advertising.

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Adweek

JANUARY 18, 2024

A bevy of alternative identifiers has flooded the market in recent years, promising to usher the advertising industry into a new paradigm once Google Chrome deprecates third-party cookies at the end of 2024.

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Adweek

JULY 27, 2022

Google said today it would hold off on its plan to get rid of third-party tracking cookies until at least 2024. This is the second time the tech giant has pushed back on the cookie's demise. Instead, the ad industry, from advertisers to publishers, will.

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Ad Monsters

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Missed the most buzzworthy ad tech stories of the year? In 2024, ad tech kept us on our toes with innovation, controversy, and everything in between. From the AI surge reshaping publisher strategies to antitrust showdowns, publishers and advertisers navigated seismic shifts in the digital landscape.

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Ad Monsters

DECEMBER 11, 2024

From Google’s cookie deprecation drama to AI-driven innovations, these must-read AdMonsters articles captured the biggest ad tech moments of 2024. 2024 has been a wild ride for ad tech, and AdMonsters has been right there on the front lines, reporting every twist, turn, and unexpected plot development.

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AdExchanger

MARCH 31, 2023

As the digital advertising industry upgrades its privacy protections for consumers, some ad tech providers have wondered what the business impact for improving privacy will be. But how often do The post Study: Cookies’ Low Match Rates Cost Ad Tech Millions. Moving Off Cookies May Be The Answer.

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Adweek

JANUARY 3, 2024

One of the most critical topics of 2024--how Google Chrome plans to rewrite digital advertising in the browser with Privacy Sandbox proposals and how companies adopt the technology, or don't--is finally ramping up. 4, Google is releasing a new browser feature called Tracking Protection, which, when activated, will cut off a site's access.

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VideoWeek

DECEMBER 17, 2024

After a year dominated by Google’s cookie u-turn, digital marketers find themselves at a crossroads. Mathieu Roche, CEO and Co-Founder of ID5, makes the case for tech platforms to steer them towards alternative ID solutions. In some cases, buyers have been used as scapegoats by some ad tech platforms.

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AdExchanger

JANUARY 24, 2024

When Google first announced plans to disable third-party cookies on Chrome in January 2020, the news hit ad tech like an earthquake. But a lot has changed in the past four years. appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Ad Monsters

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

After being buffeted by cookie deprecation, declining search traffic, programmatic devaluation, brand safety blocklists, and various other regulations and platform changes that have made business on the open web more precarious, it’s no wonder publishers are seeking stability. Consider the cautionary tale of ad network Rocket Fuel.

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Adweek

OCTOBER 5, 2022

DoubleVerify, the ad-tech company that helps shield advertisers from fraud, is launching a new measurement currency as an alternative to the third-party cookie.

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AdExchanger

MAY 19, 2024

The impending deprecation of third-party cookies (any day now, really, we mean it) is changing how ad tech companies build audiences for media buyers. Sell-side curation is emerging as a post-cookie trend.

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Ad Monsters

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The FTC’s ‘Click to Cancel’ rule is stirring up the ad tech industry. Here’s why publishers and advertisers are pushing back. Naturally, groups representing telecoms, home security companies, and advertisers—whose revenues benefit from acquiring and maintaining subscribers— are not pleased.

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illumin

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For every business, being strategic and fully understanding the ins and outs of programmatic advertising before making the transition is critical for long-term success. You could have a brilliant ad, but the campaign will never reach the intended audience without the right strategy and the right targeting.

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Adweek

AUGUST 9, 2022

When the pandemic upended the travel industry, finding the right people to target with advertising became more important than ever for Explore Georgia, the tourism wing of the state's Department of Economic Development.

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VideoWeek

JULY 28, 2022

Google’s latest delay in its plans to phase out third-party cookies may not come as much of a surprise – the deadline was already pushed back last year to 2023 – but the tech giant’s new extension to 2024 has raised eyebrows among those companies currently testing ways to target ads in a privacy-first environment.

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Ad Monsters

JULY 29, 2024

Google’s surprise shift to pump the brakes on third-party cookie deprecation in Chrome is sending shockwaves through the digital advertising world. As the dust settles, let’s dig into what this means for publishers, advertisers, and the future of privacy-preserving technologies. Will it be opt-in or opt-out?

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Ad Monsters

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Toms Panders of Setupad explains how self-serve platforms are reshaping ad tech, empowering publishers to take control, boost efficiency, and overcome industry challenges. The ad tech industry is experiencing a transformative shift. Earlier this year, Setupad launched a fully automated self-serve platform for Prebid.

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Ad Monsters

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Bowman, CEO of Reframe AI Technologies and Reframe Consulting Services, explains how AI helps media and advertising leaders operationalize large-scale inclusive change and growth. Inclusion in media and advertising has long been an aspirational goal, but what if it could be embedded into business strategy from the ground up?

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Ad Monsters

JULY 28, 2022

Just when Google shifted gears from positioning FLoC as a replacement for third-party tracking cookies to Topics API , things started smelling a little fishy. Google was going to delay plans to eliminate third-party tracking cookies in Chrome. The indelible writing was on the wall. But it was evident wasn’t it?

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AdExchanger

AUGUST 18, 2022

The ad tech industry has been discussing a cookieless future for the past few years. But advertisers and agencies are slow to realize that. Continue reading » The post Advertisers Are Missing Key Audiences – Even Before Third-Party Cookies Disappear appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Adweek

OCTOBER 9, 2024

For four years, adtech firms have been preparing for Google's deprecation of the third-party cookies that power the programmatic advertising ecosystem. But companies are still waiting to get returns on these investments of money, time, and labor, sources told ADWEEK.

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Ad Monsters

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Programmatic has reigned supreme in an advertising ecosystem guided by the principle of reaching scale. Anyone in ad tech can tell you that the industry has been dreading the deprecation of third-party cookies and what that shift will mean for how they do business. How we target individuals with relevant ads will change.

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AdExchanger

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Even opponents of Chrome’s third-party cookie deprecation plan mostly agree that Google intends to follow through this time. Which means that, by this time next year, advertisers will need to have already put their post-cookie campaign strategies in place. appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Ad Monsters

JULY 22, 2022

With the surge of online shopping and ecommerce sales, e-retail sites are becoming a more popular avenue for brand advertising. . In fact, with the implementation of new privacy laws, retail media may be a necessity for publishers and advertisers. You know, I would say we are routinely added to brand plans now.” .

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VideoWeek

AUGUST 22, 2024

After what seemed like a quiet period on the M&A front, ad tech companies appear to be back up for grabs. High interest rates, global wars and recessionary fears loomed over the economy, prompting ad tech companies to cut costs last year.

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Ad Monsters

MAY 6, 2023

Buy-side, sell-side, and every other nook and cranny of the ad tech ecosystem raised alarm bells a few years ago when Google first announced the annihilation of the third-party tracking cookie. And ever since, the tech behemoth has continually delayed the cutoff date, with the latest now the midpoint of 2024.

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Ad Monsters

JANUARY 6, 2023

What if you had a crystal ball to look into the future of ad tech? Would you look into how the advertising ecosystem will function a couple of years after Chrome finally kicks third-party tracking cookies to the curb? Would you look over to the other side of economic uncertainty to see when ad spend picks up again?

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AdExchanger

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I have no idea how I came to possess this artifact of ad tech history, but there it was, blaring at me from a pile of old papers: “Gigantic First Issue!! AdExchanger: An All-Star Collection of the Greatest Advertising Stories Ever Told!” I recently stumbled on a first edition of the classic AdExchanger comic.

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Ad Monsters

JULY 23, 2024

Google’s latest announcement to halt the deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome has sent shockwaves through the ad tech industry. Instead of phasing out cookies, Google plans to introduce a new user choice mechanism. There are mixed reactions to this news.

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More About Advertising

APRIL 27, 2021

When Google first announced in 2020 its intent to phase out the use of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser by 2022, two years seemed like a long time to prepare. However, that final cut-off date is fast approaching, and advertisers need to start looking for new solutions to engage customers in a personalised way.

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illumin

JANUARY 24, 2024

Google announced on January 4, 2024, that after years of hurdles and regulation, it’s finally starting to phase out third-party cookies. Some marketers and advertisers will be unaffected by the elimination of third-party cookies. Some marketers and advertisers will be unaffected by the elimination of third-party cookies.

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Ad Monsters

APRIL 8, 2024

Google started deprecating third-party cookies on January 4, 2024, but most companies are unprepared for the cookieless future. A 2023 EMARKETER survey reported that 50 – 90% of industries hadn’t yet invested in non-cookie programmatic ads. The IAB Tech Lab found few use cases viable in the Sandbox. The real thing.

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