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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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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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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An addressability crisis has resulted in just 30% of the web being reachable with current marketing tactics – publishers have the solution, but it requires access to responsible, scalable first-party data.
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Ben Guez, Enterprise Sales, Americas, Kevel, takes a deep dive into 5 first-party data strategies that publishers should consider adopting in 2023, including user registration, expanded interest level registrations, SSO (Single Sign On), event-based tracking and analytics, and surveys and polls.
Read MoreAdMonsters January 26, 2023 Confiant Catches Cookie Fishing Scheme: The Bad Actors of Black Friday Advertisers’ businesses boom yearly on Black Friday as they promote their annual sales. Last year, Black Friday saw another big boom — cookie stuffing — marking a sharp increase in fraudulent ad impressions. Read…
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Many have wondered whether the recent focus on data privacy within advertising will continue. We expect that trend to continue in light of the pace of change which has made compliance a moving target in terms of what regulators consider sufficient. With that in mind and Data Privacy Day 2023…
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