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Why we care about adtech: The complete guide

Martech

At its core, programmatic ad buying is software-driven technology that seeks to automate all or parts of the ad buying process that were previously done manually. This has two benefits: Ad buying efficiency : Programmatic advertising improves the speed and scale of the ad buying process. Contextual ad targeting.

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Why I’m glad third-party cookies are dying

Martech

For one thing, once Chrome goes dark, it will be almost impossible to see view-through conversions, i.e., if someone who viewed one of your ads didn’t click it but came to your website sometime later and converted. (A A lot of ad targeting options will probably disappear, too, though Google and others are trying to build replacements.).

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How Third-Party Cookies Elimination Will Affect Programmatic Ecosystem

Adtelligent

If the information lines up, the browser sends the relevant cookies together with the request. The first-party and third-party cookies are both data files that the web browser saves to the user’s computer. The website that user visits directly creates and stores first-party cookies.

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

Automatad Inc.

While GA4 users still need to specify whether a website visitor is in one country or another, it will help Google wade the tricky waters of privacy-first ad targeting and data collection methods. . Related Read: What Makes the Financial Times Such a Successful Subscriber-based Online Media Publisher?

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3 future-proofing strategies for Google’s third-party cookie crackdown

Martech

The marketing impact of the death of third-party cookies To understand how to prepare for this paradigm shift, it’s important to understand the difference between first- and third-party cookies fully. It helps extend the lifetime of first-party cookies, avoiding some impact from ad blockers.

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Digiday+ Research: A guide to the top 10 ID alternatives for publishers

Digiday

Identity technologies are the backbone of programmatic advertising, which has been dependent on tracking user data and third-party cookies for decades. In fact, most non-premium publishers depend on ad targeting through third-party cookies for over 80% of their ad revenue. The login-based ID solution.

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What Is PPID and How Does It Benefit Publishers?

Ad Monsters

According to Google Ad Manager , PPIDs are a unique identifier assigned by a publisher to a user. Publishers will share PPIDs with Google’s programmatic demand and this process will help them customize their ads, targeting, and advertising expertise. . Google will hash that ID and pass it through to buyers for auction.

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