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The 2024 Ad-Tech Battleground: Identity and Politics

Adweek

As we collectively wade into 2024--crafting budgets, plans and strategies for the year ahead--there are two events for which we must prepare: cookie deprecation and the U.S. If they don't get their plans in place now, political campaigns and brand advertisers will be left scrambling for impressions in the middle of the $10 billion.

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The Precipice of Peril: Publishers And Ad Tech Face A Harsh 2024

AdExchanger

Google Chrome will deprecate third-party cookies, Privacy Sandbox will dominate the conversation, and media will continue having a major crisis, as years of removing friction between consumer and content has cratered the value chain.

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AdMonsters 2023 Final Recap: The Hottest Topics in Ad Tech and Digital Media

Ad Monsters

This year, the ad tech industry tea was piping hot. From major DSPs going bankrupt to a slew of antitrust lawsuits against big tech companies, digital media professionals took a wild ride. For the most part, ad spend is on a steady rise. Most companies are tailoring several post-cookie solutions based on their needs.

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Publishers Fear Ad Revenue Slide with First-Party Cookies Under Threat

VideoWeek

In the years since Google first announced its decision to remove third-party cookies from its Chrome browser, one consistent refrain spoken at conferences and written in think pieces is that publishers should invest in first-party data. And for advertising cookies, it must be equally easy for users to “reject all” as it is to “accept all”.

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Confiant Catches Cookie Fishing Scheme: The Bad Actors of Black Friday

Ad Monsters

Last year, Black Friday saw another big boom — cookie stuffing — marking a sharp increase in fraudulent ad impressions. Confiant found a cookie-stuffing campaign running across multiple programmatic ad platforms around Black Friday. What is Cookie Stuffing? Partnering with ad platforms.

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WTF is ID spoofing?

Digiday

Earlier this month, ad tech giant Colossus SSP was accused by Adalytics of tricking advertisers into buying audiences they weren’t trying to target. The claim was that the sell-side platform was changing the user ID attached to an ad impression to make it more appealing to advertisers.

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LinkedIn Live Rewind: AdMonsters 2023 Recap W/ Chris Kane, Founder of Jounce Media

Ad Monsters

In 2023, the ad tech hot topics were boiling, and we explored some of the juiciest ones in our LinkedIn Live, “AdMonsters 2023 Recap W/ Chris Kane, Founder of Jounce Media.” Is the industry truly braced for the post-Chrome cookie era? MediaMath Bankruptcy MediaMath’s bankruptcy reverberated across the ad tech industry.

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