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It’s time to re-think our rejection of third-party cookies

Martech

Dig deeper: Alternatives to third-party cookies : The state of play First- and third-party cookies A first-party cookie is written to your browser by the site you’re currently on. A third-party cookie is written by some other site. I’ll also get a Doubleclick cookie.

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6 data collection tactics for marketing in the cookieless future

Martech

The end of the third-party cookie doesn’t have to be the end of getting good, useful data. Here are six tactics marketers can use with first-party and zero-party data to keep marketing automation programs working. Dig deeper: Marketers should care about consumer privacy. Gated content.

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Server-side measurement: What is it really good for?

Martech

With the end of third-party cookies looming over an ever-shifting horizon, marketers have been scrambling to figure out how to hold onto their precious data. Browsers that are already tough on cookies command a significant market share. The so-called “cookie apocalypse” does not only impact third-party cookies.

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GA4 Server-Side Tagging Setup: A Complete GDPR-Compliant Guide for 2025

Single Grain

A mid-market e-commerce retailer discovered they were losing 35% of their conversion tracking data to ad blockers and browser privacy changes. This architectural shift addresses a critical reality: GA4 server-side tracking solutions still rely on browser code despite being marketed as pure server-side implementations.

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3 ways marketers can prepare for a cookieless future

Martech

Marketers around the world are anxiously awaiting the deprecation of third-party cookies, searching for ways to adapt their campaigns. The first campaign that I was asked to run at Michael Kors took 12 hours to produce, which even five years ago was 11 hours and 59 minutes too long,” she said.

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A Brief Timeline of Signal Loss

VideoWeek

By 2024, everyone working in digital advertising was tired of hearing about cookie deprecation, writes Thomas Bernal, VP Go To Market at Ogury. Difficult, but not impossible at least at first. Chromes dominant market share meant advertisers couldnt rest on their laurels.

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What is a customer data platform or CDP and why are so many marketers talking about them?

Martech

A customer data platform, usually called a CDP , is a marketer-managed system designed to collect customer data from all sources, normalize it and build unique, unified profiles of each individual customer. The result is a persistent, unified customer database that shares data with other marketing technology systems.

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