RTB House Editorial Team

There are more options online for consumers to choose from than ever before. But rather than this manifesting as any kind of “paralysis of choice” or panicked rush to purchase, consumer journeys are actually becoming longer and more researched. More people are starting with careful consideration, comparison, and in-depth research of prices and brands. They make more site visits and spend more time weighing their options before transacting, creating a “messy middle” between consideration and purchase that has significant implications for merchants.

When many of us think of retargeting, our minds jump immediately to simple banner ads showing off the exact products that have been on our minds—but retargeting is so much more than that. With the right data and technology, we can use retargeting to connect with very specific types of users, or to achieve sophisticated goals. To understand why, let’s take a look at some retargeting ad examples and what they tell us about retargeting in general.

Despite their seemingly innocent name, cookies have found themselves at the heart of one of the internet’s biggest privacy revolutions. Specifically, third-party cookies have come under fire from privacy-advocacy groups, ultimately leading Google to work towards a cookieless future. This change will have significant implications for advertisers, as third-party cookies have been an essential targeting technology since their inception.

Let’s dive into the implications of Google’s decision and how you can prepare for the cookieless future.

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.

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.

This article aims to complete the round of quality tests performed on the sampled Seller-Defined Audiences signals we received from the sell side. While the previous article investigated contextual SDAs, this one will focus on user SDAs and verify how they reflect reality. The tests in this section varied from the ones performed on the contextual signals as the nature of the user type differs. The first test relied on a manual check of an assignment mechanism, while the second one was based on a survey campaign.