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Seller-Defined Audiences Analysis Series – Part I: SDA Introduction & Initial Insights
Have you heard of Seller-Defined Audiences (SDA) yet? SDA was released at the beginning of 2022 by Project Rearc – an initiative that came to life as the IAB Tech Lab’s answer to the impending demise of 3rd-party cookies. Although a year hasn’t passed since its release, SDA has received significant attention in the press and industry conferences and is considered one of the go-to solutions for targeting when the 3rd-party cookie pond dries up.
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What Are First-Party Cookies, and How Can Brands Use Them to Reach Customers?
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.
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RTB House Perspective on Google’s Topics Experiment Whitepaper
On April 18th, Google published the results from Google Ads’ interest-based advertising testing, where, among other tools, Topics API was analyzed. We are happy that the Google Ads team joined RTB House and Criteo in openly publishing findings from experiments with Privacy Sandbox APIs.
In the report, the Google Ads team compares the effectiveness of applying Topics API, contextual signals, and publisher first-party IDs instead of cookies for Interest-Based Advertising (IBA). Third-party cookies were allowed in this experiment for use cases unrelated to targeting, such as frequency capping and measurement.
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Hepsiburada’s Performance Marketing Director Alper Boyer on “Making a Mark in Ecommerce”
Key takeaways:- How to leverage the opportunities of cookieless solutions
- AI’s indispensability in ecommerce
- How to make gamification work for you
- The importance of agility
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Earlier Third-Party Cookie Deprecation, Record-Breaking GDPR Fine For Meta, Apple Blocks More Trackers
In this Media Review you can read about Google’s Privacy Sandbox advancements, Meta’s unprecedented GDPR fine, and Apple’s new preventive measures to third-party tracking.
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Seller-Defined Audiences Analysis Series – Part III: User SDA Quality Tests
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.
