GoodRx, was fined $1.5 million for allegedly sharing users' health data for ad purposes. The FTC filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. It alleges that the drug company frequently violated consumers' privacy by sharing personal health information with advertisers or third parties.
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The IAB Tech Lab has committed to publishing programmatic best practices alongside their quantified carbon impact from sustainability vendors like Scope3 and Cedara.IO, who are part of the working group. To educate the industry, we will publish benchmarks using existing data on supply paths. In the future, we will update…
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In a search for what's ahead for the rest of 2023 for mobile, we tapped into my mobile mastermind group to gain insight into the top mobile trends for 2023. We spoke with — Amanda Dean, Head of Programmatic Partners and Strategy, IBM Watson Advertising; Adam Gray, Senior Director, Programmatic…
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Most people relate Web3 Wallets to cryptocurrencies and NFTs. Still their individually identifiable, highly secure, and web-based nature also makes them the ideal successor to email and social media accounts — a new way of identifying a customer online that bundles identity, engagement with digital objects, brand loyalty, and data…
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Lotame announced the launch of its new data platform at IAB ALM. In collaboration with various customer data platforms (CPDs), the tech enables interoperability and data portability across brand and media owner tech stacks. We spoke with Alex Theriault, General Manager, Spherical at Lotame. We discussed Spherical, the difficulty accessing…
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Over the past 20+ years, media vet Charles Cantu has worked at companies like Disney, Comcast, and MediaMath. After building and selling two digital marketing businesses in 2018, he took his passion and expertise to create RESET DIGITAL to deliver on the promise of programmatic advertising while unleashing the power…
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At the start of IAB ALM 2023, incoming chair Alysia Borsa took the audience on a journey where she explored the current state of the industry and what we can expect for the rest of the year. Unsurprisingly, measurement, the cookie apocalypse, loss of identifiers, inconsistent privacy regulations, brand safety, and…
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Identity resolution is recognizing a unique user — regardless of channel or device — to create a persistent and privacy compliant unified profile. Identity resolution often happens in real-time, when a person visits a website or app to enable targeting or personalization. However, identity resolution can also occur in an…
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The lawsuit essentially asks Google to pick a side ( buy or sell, but not both). Its request for relief asks that at a minimum, Google should divest itself of the “Google Ad Manager suite, including both Google’s publisher ad server, DFP, and Google’s ad exchange, AdX, along with any…
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A residential IP proxy network is a network that pays consumers to share their Internet. The network then re-sells those consumers’ residential IP addresses to its customers — companies or users who want, for whatever reason, to appear as if they’re residential IPs within a specific region.
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