Following the detailed discussions at the recent MadTech Japan event, ExchangeWire speaks to Alfonso Asensio, Regional Director – Japan, Oracle Advertising, to discuss alternative forms of marketing and the role of technology providers in JAPAC markets as we enter the cookieless future. What are the key alternative targeting solutions for JAPAC marketers going forward in the absence of third-party cookies? What are the respective advantages and disadvantages of these? What we are seeing now is not a cookie versus no cookie situation [...]

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In this article written exclusively for ExchangeWire, Ricardo Honing, global client lead at Dentsu, details how AI-powered contextual advertising solutions can be used as an effective replacement for third-party cookies. How to solve the cookie conundrum? Many in the advertising industry have been looking to identity as the best shot at a like-for-like replacement. At least they were until Google nixed that idea at the start of March, kicking up a storm in the process. Of course, it’s not the death knell [...]

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The steady and sobering drumbeat towards the phase-out of third-party cookies can be heard around the world. Determined not to be caught out, brands and agencies have kicked off the new year by actively shoring up customer privacy best practices and data partnerships that will help them move away from relying on third-party sources in favour of more sustainable data gathering and personalisation tactics. It comes as no surprise to many in the industry, therefore, that contextual advertising has once [...]

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Cookie consent pop-ups annoy consumers. This is unlikely to change. But do Internet users even know why they see them? Do consumers understand that content can only be free if personalised advertising takes place and cookies are accepted? Kasper Skou (pictured below), co-founder and CEO of Semasio, doesn’t think so. In his guest article, Skou outlines where the industry is falling short when it comes to informing consumers of their data sharing options, and suggests how this problem could be [...]

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In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Google indicates that it will use FLoC for targeted advertising once third-party cookies disappear; the IPA’s Q4 2020 Bellwether Report asserts that ad spend will recover despite current pessimism; and America’s largest cinema chain, AMC, raises enough fresh funding to save it from bankruptcy.   Google to replace cookies with FLoC Google has effectively opted to use Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) as a replacement for third-party cookies within Chrome. Part of the search leaders’ ‘privacy sandbox’, the [...]

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Following LiveRamp’s Christian Carlsson’s appearance on ExchangeWire’s latest episode of TraderTalk TV, Zara Erismann (pictured below), MD Publisher, Europe at LiveRamp, writes about how authenticated traffic solutions leverage identity to help advertisers’ reach their audiences. Against a backdrop of global turmoil, the advertising industry, too, is undergoing disruption. Regulations like GDPR and CCPA, limits to device identifiers, the deprecation of third-party cookies, and Google’s removal of DCM logs all add up to a re-imagining of a two-decade old digital ad targeting stack. [...]

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2020 turned out to be a year like no other, and that was no less the case in the world of ad tech. Triggered by Google’s bombshell announcement that they would stop supporting third-party cookies on their Chrome browser by 2022, identity, and how to approach it, became a primary focus for many.  In our first in a series of prediction articles, figures from across the industry tells us what they think 2021 will hold for identity.   Universal identifiers will become the [...]

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Trust and transparency have long dogged the ad tech industry, with many welcoming the introduction of tighter data legislation and the overhaul of targeting infrastructure as steps towards achieving a more open and honest space. These changes are not a cure-all, however, and more needs to be done to resolve what is a deeply entrenched issue. In this exclusive article, Jonas Jaanimagi (pictured below), technology lead at IAB Australia, writes about how the industry can rebuild its foundations in order [...]

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There are lots of startups emerging from Europe that are addressing measurement and targeting in a privacy-first world. Below I profile 17 European ad tech companies that will have a big 2021, and why you, dear readers, need to keep an eye on them. The 17 cut across the sweet spots of ad tech right now: privacy, ID, context, measurement, emerging channels (gaming mostly), and shopping commerce.   1. Zeotap It’s been a stellar year for Zeotap. The company to date has done [...]

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As the walls close in on third-party cookies and regulators increasingly put data practices under the microscope, the ad tech industry has had to find and develop new ways to target audiences whilst upholding their right to privacy. One such solution which is still under development, is Google’s Privacy Sandbox, which will purportedly support targeting through the use of anonymised data. We spoke to David Folgueira (pictured below), deputy executive director at Prisma Media, to find out what he thinks [...]

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