Mateusz Rumiński

Over the years, http cookies have become an integral part of the Internet and are the most popular method of identifying users for personalizing a message. Due to their prevalence, the distinction between the types of computer cookies was not well known for a long time – cookies were simply cookies.

Imagine a world without personalized ads. Brands would be forced to build generic messaging and throw it into the void, praying that it connected with someone. Customers would be less likely to find the products they actually want and forced to settle for whatever they happened upon online. Personalized ads help companies connect with people who actually want their products and save consumers from wasting their time on irrelevant content.

However, there’s a new challenge on the horizon. Consumers have become increasingly privacy conscious, and as an industry, we have had to find new ways to personalize our content to consumers while also respecting their privacy. This guide will walk you through personalized ads and how they will function as we move towards more privacy-friendly personalized ads.

Contextual targeting might not be a new, flashy approach, but with the shift towards privacy-friendly cookieless advertising, it’s about to become a crucial part of every advertiser’s outreach strategy. As Google retires third-party cookies, old methods of targeting will become ineffective, and the ability to target interested users through more subtle markets, like content context, will be one of the keys to marketing success.

Let’s learn more about contextual targeting, look at some contextual advertising examples, and learn how you can deploy it in your campaigns.

In the second episode of our “Media Review” series, we take a deeper look at Google’s announcement about the Privacy Sandbox timeline, consider how businesses should use the time that Google just gave them, and analyze the privacy aspects of FLoC.

In this chapter of our “Media Review” series, we describe the results of the CMA investigation into Google’s Privacy Sandbox, Tech Lab’s release of “Seller Defined Audience” and more.

In this Media Review, we take a closer look at Privacy Sandbox News from Google, the economic value of Targeted Advertising, an Analytical Tool that faces GDPR, and more.