Data & Privacy
Discover insights on data & privacy to deliver a safe environment for consumers
Discover insights on data & privacy to deliver a safe environment for consumers
Most people don’t know the name Lou Montulli but he’s indirectly responsible for one of the biggest invasions of privacy of the modern era. In 1994, Montulli was a 23-year-old founding engineer at Netscape with a number of Internet innovations to his credit, including web browsers, HTTP proxying, and the infamous tracking cookie. Montulli never […]
Google may have delayed the ultimate death of the cookie, but that doesn’t mean marketers can breathe easy. Brands have relied on third-party cookies for behavioral targeting and remarketing campaigns for decades. Change won’t come easy. There’s no plug-and-play replacement for third-party data on the horizon. Even though Google is putting the final nail in […]
Google’s 2020 announcement that it would ban the use of third-party cookies in 2022 made big waves for both consumers and digital marketers. Cookie privacy isn’t a new concern—Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox browsers have been blocking cookies for almost a decade. But the news that Google planned to follow suit rocked the industry. That’s […]
Marketers entered 2022 with the haunting specter of a cookieless future on the horizon. While Google’s ambitious cookie deprecation timeline has now been pushed back to mid-2023, the fact remains that marketers have very little time to reinvent their marketing strategies to accommodate the death of the cookie. Here’s a look at what to expect […]
In 2021, digital advertising in the United States grew to $139.8 billion with a lot of marketing dollars relying on a strategy upon which both Google and Apple have put a firm expiration date. The bulk of digital ad spend still relies on third-party cookies for targeting. However, Google has announced the removal of third-party cookies by the end of 2022 when using the Chrome browser. Meanwhile Apple’s iOS is already allowing users to block cookie-based […]
Demographic-based audiences assume that everyone within a particular age range or gender spends in the same way. But, that’s simply not the case. dem·o·graph·ic: a segment of a population having shared characteristics Consider this scenario: Three women fall into the 18 – 34 age range with an annual household income of $50,000. Based on demographic […]
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