Powered by: December 22, 2021 IAB Europe's TCF Problems Get Bigger Regrets, Identity Vendors May Have Had a Few Problems for IAB Europe's TCF Get Bigger, Go Deeper Whenever European residents visit an ad-supported website, they are bombarded with pop-ups asking for confirmation of privacy choices. They have been…
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Powered by: December 14, 2021 200 Newspapers Vs Big Tech Start Testing Now: 2023 Isn't That Far Away Stronger Together? More than 200 Newspapers Suing Big Tech Axios uncovered that more than 200 local newspapers are suing Google and Facebook to recoup lost digital revenue swallowed up by Big…
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Powered by: December 08, 2021 Ad Spend Going Up? An Embarrassment of Identity Choices Will Birds of Different Feathers FLoC Together? Ad Spend Increases More Than Predicted. Good News for Publishers? Image sourced from Mediapost Consumers hear supply chain issues and walk past empty store shelves and think that…
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Powered by: November 30, 2021 Could CMA Commitments Delay Cookie Cutoff Further? The Long Goodbye to Third-Party Cookies Should Pubs Up Their Influencer Collabs? Next Up: Sustainable Advertising Ad Tracking Ending to Come Sooner Or Later The ICO’s (Information Commissioner’s Office) outgoing commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, posted a scathing opinion…
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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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November 16, 2021 Apple's Google Play Store Ad Spend Switcheroo In Search of Nielsen Alternatives Ad Targeting Like the Weather Apple Buys App Ads on Google to Grab Publisher Revenue Photo by Artem Podrez from Pexels Apple wants a big piece of that subscription revenue share, so much so that…
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November 12, 2021 IAB Europe Breached GDPR AI Powers Globe and Mail Paywall IAB Europe in Breach of GDPR Google and countless other advertisers rely on IAB Europe’s consent management system, which has now been deemed in violation of GDPR. “IAB Europe designed the misleading ‘consent’ pop-ups that feature on…
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November 03, 2021 Apple Didn't Hit Twitter's Revenue Is Spotify Gunning For the Number 4 Spot? Twitter Flies Away from Apple’s Revenue Hits Many companies felt the brunt of Apple’s privacy changes earlier this year, but Twitter was not one of them. Its quarterly revenue went up 37%, causing stock…
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October 27, 2021 Is Google Taking Double? Google and Facebook Colluded Against Apple? How Apple's Privacy Changes Actually Hurt Google Takes Double What Competition Takes For Ad Deals? Talk about inflating ad deals. In an unredacted lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, it…
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October 13, 2021 The Race to the Bottom Continues Marketers Still Eating the Cookies? The Race to the Bottom Continues We all love loads of irrelevant ads littering our in-app experience,s don’t we? Don’t we? And aren’t they all just great for the industry overall? Aren't they? Well, that seems…
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