What is zero-party data? Ask ten people (well, not ANY ten people; ten adtech dweebs) and you’ll get ten different answers—along with some medium-to-heavy ridicule. Zero-party data is still a relatively new concept (having been coined a scant three years ago), and adtech likes to take its time settling into new ideas.…
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November 23, 2021 Privacy Has A Three-Body Problem Hey Meta, Leave Those Teens Alone WarnerMedia Launching Nielsen Competitor in 2022 Online Privacy’s “Three-Body Problem”? MaxwellMolecule, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons We love to hope and believe that things are sacred and protected online — like one’s privacy —…
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You may have heard of SWAN in Google's Privacy Sandbox, but this SWAN is a community-operated and open source replacement for many use cases supported by third-party cookies. Compared to Google’s Privacy Sandbox offerings, SWAN (Secure Web Addressability Network) provides a legally compliant solution that will improve people’s privacy. No…
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The Tech Lab's Open Source Initiative will make the code and guidelines of ad tech projects — like UID 2's Open Source ID framework, proof of concept libraries for implementing authenticated connections using Ads.cert, and brand suitability test benchmarks — available to everyone, all in one place.
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In the wake of the ISBA Programmatic Supply Chain Transparency Study, there was immediate focus on who was most adversely affected, as well as the mysterious unknown delta. While these are interesting data points, MightyHive's Head of Media Activation, Rachel Adams, was taken aback by another issue—how difficult it was…
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Back in 2018, there was a lot of hype about blockchain saving advertising and Senior Editor Lynne d Johnson was riding the wave—high. Now that the hype is over, there are actually quite a few projects proving every day that blockchain and related technologies like cryptography and permissioned ledgers can…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 5, 2020 How Will an Entire Industry Unlearn Ad Tech 1.0? "Ad Tech 2.0 won’t offer marketers nearly as much access to deterministic, user-level, and cross-site/cross-app data as they’ve grown accustomed to. In many cases, user-level data will dry up completely," says Myles Younger, Senior Director of…
Read MoreAdMonsters November 27, 2019 What Are the Use Cases for Log-Level Data? Once considered the “data exhaust” of the industry, log-level data (LLD) has been positioned more recently as a remedy for many of programmatic’s woes. LLD contains many valuable, impression-level details. But that’s not all. There are a…
Read MoreAdMonsters December 5, 2019 SSP and DSP Value Is in the Eye of the Publisher As the main feeder exchanges settles at three—GAM, Amazon's Transparent Ad Marketplace (TAM), and Prebid—there’s a great deal more murkiness in the middle; even more cross-pollination as SSPs pine for advertiser spend and DSPs…
Read MoreAdMonsters November 21, 2019 Interrupting Regularly Scheduled Programming: Privacy Regulations and the Emerging T/V Ecosystem T/V is in a period of rapid expansion for digitally delivered offerings from major new video streaming services. 28 such branded services will be out by this time next year. There are seven touchpoints…
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