privacy

This week in publishing – The Trade Desk introduces OpenPath; Google Encrypted Signals; and Privacy Sandbox comes to Android

The Trade Desk launches OpenPath The Trade Desk announced OpenPath this week, a new product that reportedly allows advertisers to buy programmatic ads directly from premium publishers in order to make ad buying cheaper and more transparent.  However, the move also means cutting out Google Open Bidding – and others – from their ad buying

This week in publishing – NewsPassID, a new privacy working group, Criteo’s Super Bowl ad, and Facebook threatens pull out of Europe

Identity: Topics silver lining, NewsPassID passes pilot phase, and LiveRamp-Pubmatic solution An article from Digiday this week highlighted the potential silver lining of Topics API, including the power of publisher first party data, specifically served via publisher-provided IDs.  Whilst publishers tend to keep their PPIDs within their own systems to avoid data leakage, Google is

This week in publishing – IAB Europe’s TCF falling short; industry reacts to Topics API; an audio ID; and Adform’s new FusionID

The regulators: IAB Europe’s TCF falls short On Thursday 2nd February 2022, the Belgian data protection authority (APD) published its final decision on a long running complaint against the IAB Europe’s TCF – the Transparency & Consent Framework.  The TCF sets the standard for collecting Internet users’ permission to process their data for behavioral advertising

Clarity on APD decision regarding IAB Europe’s TCF

On Thursday 2nd February 2022, the Belgian data protection authority (APD) published its final decision on a long running complaint against the IAB Europe’s TCF – the Transparency & Consent Framework.  The TCF sets the standard for collecting Internet users’ permission to process their data for behavioral advertising – including pop ups asking for permission

This week in publishing – Subscriptions the key focus; Arena acquires Parade; plus more Google and adtech revelations

Publishers focus on subscriptions despite ads growth Further insights from Digiday’s latest publisher research show where publishers see revenue growth in 2022.  Overall, 75% of publishers expect ad revenue growth in 2022; with 47% expecting subscriptions revenue growth and 47% expecting ecommerce growth.  Whilst it seems obvious that 73% of publishers with established subscriptions businesses

Leading industry participants launch new initiative to support the development of addressable media in Europe

Founding members – Amobee, Carbon, Comscore, Finecast, LiveRamp, Lotame, Neustar and PubMatic – will work collaboratively across the European media and advertising ecosystem to support the development of a positive, sustainable roadmap for addressable media Leading industry participants Amobee, Carbon, Comscore, Finecast, LiveRamp, Lotame, Neustar and PubMatic, in association with The Project X Institute, announced

This week in publishing – Ad market growing faster than expected; first party key for 2022 relationship building; and compliance concerns.

2022: Ad market keeps growing faster-than-expected According to GroupM’s latest figures digital advertising will account for 64.4% of total ad spend this year; but worryingly it’s big tech that is benefitting most with 80-90% of that (outside of China) going to the parents of Google, Facebook and Amazon.  The latter of those also appears to

This week in publishing – Google’s second iteration of FLoC, IAB under fire as trust wanes, and digital publishers’ Q3 highlights

Identity: Cookie deprecation driven losses; can Google save FLoC2; and non-AMP ad throttling A lotame study released last week suggested 57% of marketers expect 10-25% revenue decrease from cookie deprecation.  In a bid to avoid these losses – and maintain privacy compliant audience targeting – email-based identity solutions (66%) were the most popular choice of

Carbon is now part of Magnite.