Articles written by Kacper Polewiak
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Meta’s Regulatory Struggles, DMA’s Effect, First-Party Sets, and Others
In this Media Review, we bring together 5 stories, including accusations against Meta for using ad-related data to harm the competition, Apple’s allowance for outside app stores on its phones, and Google sharing its First Party Sets (FPS) concepts as ready for testing.
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Positive Feedback for FLEDGE, DOJ Sues Google, Dark Patterns Fight, IDFV Tracking
In this Media Review, we bring together 4 stories, including the positive reception for FLEDGE, the French privacy regulator fining a game developer for leveraging IDFV (Identifier For Vendors), and the European Center for Digital Rights unifying the “dark patterns” interpretation in terms of cookie consent pop-up windows.
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What is Google’s Privacy Sandbox? The Ultimate Guide
It might have been delayed, but the end of third-party tracking cookies is coming at the beginning of 2025, and businesses can’t afford to keep pretending otherwise. The good news is that thanks to this delay, there is still a small window of opportunity for companies to prepare for the cookieless future by engaging with the Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox.
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Seller-Defined Audiences Analysis Series – Part I: SDA Introduction & Initial Insights
Have you heard of Seller-Defined Audiences (SDA) yet? SDA was released at the beginning of 2022 by Project Rearc – an initiative that came to life as the IAB Tech Lab’s answer to the impending demise of 3rd-party cookies. Although a year hasn’t passed since its release, SDA has received significant attention in the press and industry conferences and is considered one of the go-to solutions for targeting when the 3rd-party cookie pond dries up.
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TCF Action Freeze, Big Tech Antitrust Update, SDA Buy-Side Analysis, and Other News
In this Media Review, you can read 6 stories, including big tech antitrust update, Meta letting users opt out of some targeted ads (and only in selected countries), and ramping the FLEDGE origin trial back up and launching isolated experiments.
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What Are First-Party Cookies, and How Can Brands Use Them to Reach Customers?
The cookieless future is fast approaching, and this means that brands need to rebuild their marketing strategies around alternatives to third-party cookies. Navigating this new environment will require mastering a suite of tools, including another type of cookies: first-party cookies.
To understand how you can make the most of first-party cookies, let’s dive into what they are, how they work, and how advertisers use them.
