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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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The Google Chrome team is getting closer to deciding on its cookie consent mechanism. The post Chrome’s Global Cookie Consent, and Nielsen and Paramount Make Nice appeared first on AdExchanger. And Paramount resolves its four-month standoff with Nielsen, as the mechanics behind currency change forever.
Google’s cookie deprecation delay to early 2025 offers agencies a crucial window to refine their strategies. Ed Leahy, Head of Sales, PCH Media explores how leveraging first-party data, engaging in data collaboration, and prioritizing consumer privacy can position agencies for success.
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Google’s surprise shift to pump the brakes on third-party cookie deprecation in Chrome is sending shockwaves through the digital advertising world. In a plot twist straight out of a digital marketing thriller, last week, Google announced it will not deprecate third-party cookies unilaterally after all and instead opt for enhanced user choice.
After several delays that had many wondering if it would ever happen, Google finally pulled the trigger on its plan to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome browsers. Agencies are continuing as status quo and publishers are working to find individual solutions that will work for their data environments.
Google has pushed back its self-imposed deadline of the end of 2023 for the deprecation of third-party cookies. In January 2022, it abandoned its highest profile alternative to cookies, FLoC, and turned to targeting by Topics. Firefox and Safari blocked third-party cookies years ago. The future of addressability. Why we care.
As agencies get more serious about finding the right third-party cookie alternatives , they are running into challenges, both old and new. Some of these include changes in audience size or measurement and standardization obstacles — and potentially even its own set of privacy questions. Continue reading this article on digiday.com.
After not one, but two delays, Google pivoted yet again in 2024 when it announced it would no longer deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome. To use a non-cookie-related example, sometimes well see clients want to stop a display or video campaign because theyre not seeing the same metrics as search.
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Cookies, who? Agencies aren’t panicking about the end of third-party cookies anymore, because clients aren’t panicking – or procrastinating as much. Cookie deprecation was “a really hot topic a year and a half or so ago,” said Mara Greenwald, SVP of commerce media at Night Market, Horizon Media’s commerce-focused agency.
” Tara DeZao, product marketing director for adtech and martech at Pega, was reacting to the news that Google had finally begun phasing out third-party cookies. ” What’s more, there’s an impression going around that brand marketers want to leave solutions to the agencies. After multiple delays. In your inbox.
With a week under their collective belts to absorb Google’s surprising, but not shocking news, that it’s doing an about-face on deprecating third-party cookies from its browsers, media agencies large and small are choosing to press ahead as if cookies are going away — especially since they kind of are anyway.
With the ongoing cookie deprecation underway, independent agencies are shifting their attention to identifying new audiences, testing artificial intelligence and expanding data tools to prepare for the accompanying measurement changes, which may look different for independents than they do for their holding company counterparts.
The decline of third-party cookies and the explosion of new marketing channels connected TV, retail media, digital out-of-home and more only deepen this fragmentation. A dedicated project owner or an outside agency can help connect the dots across your organization, improving alignment and efficiency.
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Could 2024 finally be the year we witness the transition into the deprecation of third-party cookies? Agencies have been preparing for this inevitability for years by developing privacy and compliance tools and metrics — despite tech players shifting their timing. This is a member-exclusive article from Digiday.
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There’s the brewing measurement mess as third-party cookies eventually go away. At the Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit last week in Palm Springs, California, agency executives participated in closed-door town hall discussions, in which they were granted anonymity for their candor.
Especially when the biggest oil field — third-party cookies — is drying up. Clients, which include marketers and agencies, can bridge the divide between brand metrics, like awareness, favorability and purchase intent, to performance outcomes, like search, site visits and shopping, across their whole multimedia campaign.
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. Today’s column is written by Aaron McKee, CTO at Blis.
We established earlier this week that publishers are moving away from third-party cookies with or without Google. But when it comes to marketers, it turns out they’re a lot more hesitant to let go of cookies than their publisher counterparts, and, in particular, brand marketers are more hesitant than agencies.
MiQ, a programmatic media partner for brands and agencies, has announced a set of capabilities to support advertising performance in a post-third-party cookie environment. The post MiQ announces post-cookie programmatic package appeared first on MarTech. Identity Spine. There has to be a winning number there, right?
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Two things the ad industry can seemingly count on like clockwork: Google to postpone its third-party cookie deprecation plans and advertisers to be less-than-ready for the cookie to go away.
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Across the aisle, Therran Oliphant, SVP Ad Tech, Agency Partners at Flashtalking by Oceanmedia, and the buy side champion, acknowledged his team’s challenges due to fragmentation. “There is a sprawl of data sets, and we must collect them from multiple places.
The same could be said of how brands and agencies have approached contextual targeting. As brands reach out to agencies to plan for life without cookies, agency teams have a pivotal opportunity to prove their strategic value and deepen client relationships.
In the seemingly never-ending saga around cookies’ official sunsetting from digital advertising, more companies are entering the fray in an effort to secure a foothold among those looking for cookie replacements. One identity resolution company recently generated some positive results with a media agency.
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They’re testing alternatives to third-party cookies now that the tech giant has clipped one percent of them in its Chrome browser. These marketers understand the tests won’t be perfect, but they’re seizing the moment to make a start. After all, as they argue, if not now, then when? Continue reading this article on digiday.com.
Google has finally thrown down the gauntlet, making good on its promise to decimate third-party cookies in its Chrome browser by the end of this year. As the fallout continues, however, agency executives expect to see compounding effects on trends like the rise of retail media, streaming and audio ad spend, and the role of display ads.
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