Blog about Digital Advertising & Marketing Technology

How will clients assess their marketing services partners amid the decline of 3rd-party cookies, and what strategies can help firms prosper?

The digital advertising industry is facing a precipitous moment on the back of Google’s decision to remove 3rd-party cookies from its Chrome browser in 2023, but marketeers must act now by implementing other strategies rather than waiting for the perfect solution to replace their favourite tracking tool. In this interview, Louise McMahon, Automotive Marketing Communications Section Manager at Honda UK, outlines what changes her business has made and what marketing services partners need to do to stay relevant when it comes to cookieless advertising.

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.

Each of us experiences contact with artificial intelligence every day. We reach for its possibilities spontaneously and often without realizing that it is to artificial intelligence that we owe the comfort of life and a number of conveniences. Who doesn’t use Gmail, Google Translate, a smart personal assistant or Netflix recommendations? We also watch dozens of ads every day, which are often selected for us by algorithms. How has the evolution of Artificial Intelligence progressed and impacted our lives over the course of history?

Just two days after publishing Topics API, Google shared more details about the FLEDGE API specification for the upcoming Origin Trials. It is definitely a positive move, as it improves the industry’s understanding of the scope of tests that will be possible in the upcoming months. The specification includes essential features for advertising efficiency and utility, such as those created by RTB House – Product-level TURTLEDOVE and Outcome-based TURTLEDOVE. Sadly, the testing phase timeline hasn’t been updated for months now, so a more detailed timeline is still unavailable.

Six months ago, during IETF 111, Google engineers made it clear that they were approaching a new iteration of FLoC, which was related to site topics. Yesterday, they finally announced Topics API. The ad topics concept has also been explored by Meta engineers in their Ad Topic Hints proposal, which builds on user feedback to displayed ads. Also, the PAURAQUE proposal from NextRoll was proposed in such a way that users could define topics which are interesting for them and can be used for personalization.

A recent Harvard survey points to an expected 8.6% rise in home renovation and maintenance spending throughout 2022. Such a rise in a single year would usually be unheard of, but it is actually part of an ongoing trend in the home and garden domain. According to Statista, there has been a 20% growth in the H&G market in the last two years and it will be worth 1.6B USD globally by 2025.