Author: Michael Sweeney

November 2, 2018 by Michal Wlosik, Michael Sweeney

Cookies remember website configuration (e.g. language preferences), login details, and products added to the shopping cart, even after a user leaves the site, but because cookie files are widely used to collect certain pieces of information, they can also be used to carry out advertising processes like behavioral profiling and retargeting. Understanding the role of cookies in advertising technology is critical to getting a better hold on online advertising and privacy.

October 23, 2018 by Maciej Zawadziński, Michael Sweeney

When you hear most people in the online advertising world talk about integrating a demand-side platform (DSP) with an ad exchange or supply-side platform (SSP), they make it sound as if it’s a matter of connecting the platforms together via a cable.

September 17, 2018 by Michael Sweeney

Understanding the fundamentals of online advertising and marketing technology is complex — there are numerous initialisms to learn (e.g. CPA and eCPM), various ways of buying media (e.g. RTB and programmatic direct), as well as dozens of technology platforms (demand-side platforms and customer data platforms).

August 27, 2018 by Michael Sweeney

Prior to the year 2000, the online advertising and marketing industries were powered by creative thinkers and gifted copywriters. While there’s still a need for these skills when penning advertising and marketing campaigns, the industries are now driven primarily by technology.

May 17, 2018 by Michael Sweeney

With only a week until the European Union’s General Data-Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect, AdTech and MarTech companies around the world are bracing themselves for the dawn of a new era in digital advertising and marketing.

April 17, 2018 by Michael Sweeney

While the true impact of the GDPR and ePrivacy regulation won’t be felt until after they come into force, we can already get a sense of the effect they’ll have on the online advertising and marketing industries.

April 12, 2018 by Michael Sweeney

Out of all the hurdles publishers and AdTech & MarTech companies must overcome to comply with the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the one about user consent is the biggest.

March 12, 2018 by Michael Sweeney

On April 27, 2016, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted and triggered the start of a two-year countdown towards its enforcement date on May 25, 2018.

February 15, 2018 by Michael Sweeney

Back in September 2017, one of our project managers, Grzegorz Łukaszewicz, gave a presentation at a Klarna conference (Konfersense by Klarna). Clearcode has been working with Klarna to build the Klarna Upstream advertising platform. Grzegorz covered the following topics: Klarna Upstream advertising platform First-party and third-party cookies Cookie syncing and how it works Watch the […]