Blog about Digital Advertising & Marketing Technology

The end of third-party tracking cookies is on the horizon, but it’s not as bad as you might think. Despite concerns from some advertisers that losing third-party cookies will make it impossible to deliver personalized advertising, there are already a number of effective solutions in the works to ensure that users can still enjoy relevant ads, without any privacy fears.

Let’s take a quick dive into why third-party tracking cookies are being retired, what that means for your advertising strategy, and why it’s actually a good thing for both customers and advertisers.

In this Media Review, you can find out more about Google updating the Privacy Sandbox timeline, a proposal on how to optimize FLEDGE’s performance by leveraging cloud resources, and a hypothesis around Apple building a DSP.

Consumer tech companies, like Samsung, operate in an environment with high average order values (AOVs) but long gaps between conversions. This means it is essential to maximize individual sales and build brand loyalty that lasts long after a purchase is complete. Companies can best do this by building direct connections with their customers across a variety of sales channels. However, this means overcoming the challenges posed by the loss of access to third-party cookies in the oncoming cookieless future.

We’ve previously discussed why retargeting should play an important role in any marketing campaign, and today, we’d like to discuss one of the biggest retargeting myths: That a single provider is better than multiple retargeting providers.

The argument about whether you should use a multiple or singular retargeting strategy, is the source of many “spirited” discussions amongst the more geeky circles at marketing conventions, especially once the drinks start flowing at the post-convention parties.

Even if you leave the details to the experts, it’s important to understand exactly how the different components of your marketing campaign work together. This helps marketing managers to get a feel for how different service providers bring value, boost brand visibility, and ensures that the campaign’s budgets are being spent wisely. For consumer tech brands, and most anything else, two of the most powerful tools in your arsenal are branding campaigns and retargeting campaigns, especially when used in concert and optimized with Deep Learning algorithms.

Ready to learn more? Let’s dive in.

A year after the previous extension of the deadline for third-party cookies deprecation, Google did it again, this time until the second half of 2024 [Note: In April 2024, it was further postponed until early 2025]. At the same time, Google released two important pieces of information: The FLEDGE origin trial will most likely be extended until late October and will also cover Chrome stable users, and the feedback report for Q2, which is a result of the company’s commitments to the CMA.