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The Road to Cookieless Advertising: A Timeline

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 […]

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Benefits of Loyalty Programs in a Cookieless World

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 […]

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Third-Party Cookies and Their Impact on Privacy

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 […]

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Cookieless Marketing: Preparing for Cookie Deprecation

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 […]

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A World Without Cookies

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No Cookies? No Problem!

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 […]

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What is a Purchasegraphic and Why Should You Care?

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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