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Alternatives to third-party cookies: The state of play

Martech

” Tara DeZao, product marketing director for adtech and martech at Pega, was reacting to the news that Google had finally begun phasing out third-party cookies. Criteo is a Google partner; they’ve been testing topics and a year ago they found that Topics was five times less effective than cookies. After multiple delays.

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Digital advertisers still looking for recipe to thrive in cookieless world by Stirista

Martech

The company finally removed cookies for 1% of Chrome users (or around 30 million people) back in January. With Google continually pushing back the cookie deprecation deadline, advertisers didn’t expect, or prepare, for the demise of cookies to actually happen. Marketers can’t call Google’s bluff anymore.

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Silvia Sparry of Xaxis: will creativity solve digital advertising’s cookie-free dilemma?

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With the approaching obsolescence of third-party cookies, marketers must reimagine how they optimise digital campaigns, strengthen audience connections, and build relevant ad experiences. Data and creativity aren’t mutually exclusive; The post Silvia Sparry of Xaxis: will creativity solve digital advertising’s cookie-free dilemma?

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Unesco launches confuse-a-cookie kit with DDB Paris

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Unesco is launching The Cookie Factory as part of a campaign against the aforementioned online menaces, aimed at persuading its 193 member states to adopt its Recommendation on the Ethics of AI. That is, stop A1-powered cookies spying on us. With The Cookie. Maybe it should have a word with the media buying fraternity too.

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Criteo is exploring a services layer for Privacy Sandbox 

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To all the befuddled ad tech vendors scratching their heads over the hefty tech and financial requirements for Google’s dicey cookie alternatives — fret not. Criteo’s got you. Todd Parsons, the chief product officer, said as much to Digiday, mentioning that he and his team are working with Google to tackle this issue head-on.

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Xandr’s Harvin Gupta: how can advertising evolve in a world without third-party cookies?

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When Google first announced in 2020 its intent to phase out the use of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser by 2022, two years seemed like a long time to prepare. The post Xandr's Harvin Gupta: how can advertising evolve in a world without third-party cookies? first appeared on More About Advertising.

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Challenge board: Publishers speak out during the Digiday Publishing Summit

Digiday

Cookie deprecation, of course; it’s been going on for a while, but it’s finally happening. You’ve got generative AI and the impact that’s going to have to all of us. And I would also say algorithm changes in Google,” said Sharon Milz, chief information officer at Time.

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