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Weekly Roundup: Post-Cookie Insights for Publishers, GDPR Impact on Global Businesses, and More

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Vox EU examines how GDPR has affected global businesses. Companies purchasing podcast ads grew by 14% YoY, 42% being repeat advertisers. However, spending levels of these categories decreased from 2020. Related Read: Checklist for GDPR Compliance for Publishers. Last Week’s Highlights. Post cookie insights for publishers.

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Report spotlights vast scale of adtech’s ‘biggest data breach’

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Highly sensitive personal data on web users is, meanwhile, routinely sucked up and shared for ad targeting purposes, as previous ICCL reports have detailed in hair-raising detail. That consent issue is one (solid) complaint against RTB under Europe’s GDPR. and 197 billion times in Europe every day.”

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UK finally opens antitrust probe of Google’s role in the adtech stack

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Google also recently revised its approach to push for topic-based ad targeting, rather than cohorts.). Image Credits: CMA final report on online advertising and platforms market study, July 2020. Behavioral ad industry gets hard reform deadline after IAB’s TCF found to breach Europe’s GDPR.

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Google’s ‘deceptive’ account sign-up process targeted with GDPR complaints

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The tech giant profiles account holders for ad targeting purposes — apparently relying on user consent as its legal basis. The series of GDPR complaints are being coordination by members group BEUC, aka the European Consumer Organisation. But Ireland has yet to issue a single GDPR decision against Google.

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Why we care about adtech: The complete guide

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In fact, between the third quarter of 2020 and the third quarter of 2021, there was a 125% increase in M&A activity for adtech platforms, including several high-profile deals in 2021 like Mediaocean’s acquisition of Flashtalking for $500 million and AdTheorent’s $1 billion SPAC deal to go public. Contextual ad targeting.

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Uh oh! European carriers are trying to get into ‘personalized’ ad targeting

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” Users of mobile networks — who pay their hard-earned money to get cellular connectivity, not to be clobbered with (yet) more consent pop-up spam and/or be ad-stalked around the internet — may well take a very different view, as they wonder how many times they’re going to have to keep slaying the tracking zombie.

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AdTech Ecosystem: Navigating Trends and Insights 

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Innovations such as Facebook’s Mobile App Install Ads demonstrated the potential of mobile advertising for user acquisition. Emergence of Data-Driven Advertising (2015-2020) Data became the driving force behind AdTech during this period, leading to the prominence of Data Management Platforms (DMPs).