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Google, and every other ad tech company, is trying to figure out how to deliver personalized marketing without being creepy or violating a privacy policy. “First-party data is imperative,” said Michael Burke, managing director of Google’s branded luxury apparels business, at the IAB Tech Lab’s Brand Disruption Summit in New York City on Wednesday. “But the fallacy is the idea that [first-party data] needs to be used for one-to-one marketing.”

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by John Sabella, CTO at PubMatic. With international scrutiny and stories about opaque pricing, Google could use some positive PR. Federated Learning of Cohorts 2.0 (what I’m dubbing FLoC2) presents a unique opportunity for Google to prove […]

Programmatic and privacy don’t have to be mutually exclusive, even though they’re often treated that way, according to Joe Root, CEO and co-founder of London-based publisher technology startup Permutive. “A privacy-first web is about removing the data leakage that’s inherent in programmatic,” Root said. Permutive aims to stop that leakage with technology infrastructure to preserve […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Andrew Frank, VP distinguished analyst at Gartner. As yesterday’s cross-domain tracking methods fade into history, the entire digital ad community is casting around for a suitable replacement – and marketers trying to navigate through the […]

With your permission, please endure yet one more Privacy Sandbox-related bird reference: Chrome’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) proposal will not fly in its current form. “We’ve got a long road to hoe before it’s possible to prove this can be a working model for advertising,” said Todd Parsons, chief product officer at Criteo. The […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Warren Lapa, CEO, Unique. When Google announced its plans to block third-party tracking in Chrome, the ad tech ecosystem immediately pivoted to first-party data and derived personal identifiers. The pitch […]

Third-party cookies may be on the way out in Chrome, but that doesn’t mean the end of data-driven advertising. There are still many other types of audience data that marketers will have at their disposal, including identity graphs and consented third-party data, household-level data, second-party data, contextual data, cohorts and, of course, first-party data, including […]

Retargeting might be considered a legacy business, but it held strong for Criteo – and actually grew – during the first quarter of this year. On Criteo’s Q1 earnings call Wednesday, CEO Megan Clarken pointed to the resilience of retargeting as a driver of the company’s growth. Not that retargeting’s rebound wasn’t also somewhat of a surprise. […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In It Together? Ad tech companies, publishers and advertisers are hedging their bets in the quest for a new set of audience identifiers. Many plan to support multiple identifiers and targeting methods, including Google’s cohort-based approach. As PubMatic CEO Rajeev Goel tells Digiday’s Seb […]

Google’s been busy in the Privacy Sandbox. Consider: Google’s Chrome browser has a new bird-themed proposal called FLEDGE that builds on TURTLEDOVE. The company is also making its proposal for interest-based cohorts – or FLoCs [aka, federated learning of cohorts] – available for public developer testing starting in March. And finally, on Monday Google shared the latest […]