Kaja Pryczkowska

Every year, many businesses tell themselves that they’ll start working on their Black Friday promo period sales strategy early this year. However, when October comes around, they yet again find themselves scrambling to prepare for the most important sales period of the ear. This is the biggest mistake any business can make, and our Black Friday report our Black Friday retargeting campaigns report, and this article, are designed to help you understand why.

We now know that third-party cookies will be staying with us a little longer. On June 24, Google released an updated timeline for the Privacy Sandbox – a high-level plan indicating that it will phase out support for third-party cookies over a three month period starting mid-2023.

The question is – how much more time does the industry actually have? The answer is – not much. Based on the official procedures for bringing new features to Chrome, we at RTB House expect that the next two years will be filled with work.

Few industry segments have experienced as much disruption as online advertising and digital media in recent years. With the dynamic increase in the use of mobile devices and social media, online advertising agencies have had their hands full adapting to new technologies, new formats, and constantly evolving user behavior.

Marketing and types of digital advertising are constantly in motion If advertisers fail to leverage tools to adapt to these trends, they could find themselves being left behind.

Tasked with making client budgets deliver maximum results, media agencies have a laser focus on cost optimization and martec trends throughout the planning and execution of digital campaigns. In this article, Gabrielle de Souza, Media Supervisor at Lew’Lara\TBWA Brazil—a leading Brazilian media agency—shares her experiences planning and optimizing campaigns for global brands and how technology platforms can empower agencies to extract maximum value.

By the end of 2023, it will be impossible to use third-party cookies in Chrome which currently commands a 70% market share. The loss of third-party cookies poses challenges for marketers when it comes to tracking and understanding consumers’ online buying behaviors. RTB House spoke to Piotr Śladowski, Digital Communication Manager at Wavemaker Poland, to understand how media agencies are helping brands best prepare for the new era of cookieless digital advertising.