Author: Michael Sweeney

June 22, 2020 by Michael Sweeney, Paulina Zawiślak

Since the release of version 1.0 in September 2017, Webkit has released 5 new versions of its Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) to strengthen user privacy for Safari users.

May 28, 2020 by Michael Sweeney, Paulina Zawiślak

When it comes to starting a new AdTech or MarTech development project, or even building new features for your existing platforms, you’ll need to consider more than just what programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure you’ll use.

May 26, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

Background of the Project SITO Mobile is a publicly traded advertising technology (AdTech) company that uses consumer and location data to help brands run targeted media campaigns on mobile devices. Their software is known as a demand-side platform (DSP), which allows media buyers (e.g. brands, advertisers, and agencies) to purchase ad space from publishers (e.g. websites […]

May 25, 2020 by Michael Sweeney, Paulina Zawiślak

A lot has happened since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on May 25, 2018, and it can be hard keeping up with all the news stories. At Clearcode, we’ve been keeping an internal record of the most important news stories and opinions even before the GDPR was introduced. Now, […]

April 21, 2020 by Michael Sweeney, Paulina Zawiślak

When you hear the words “programmatic advertising”, what comes to mind? Do you think about demand-side platforms (DSPs) and supply-side platforms (SSPs)? Or about real-time bidding (RTB) and private marketplaces (PMPs)? Programmatic advertising is a broad term that spans many areas of digital advertising — from AdTech platforms and media-buying methods to advertising channels and mediums. In […]

April 9, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

Since Google Chrome announced it’ll stop supporting third-party cookies, publishers, agencies, AdTech companies, and brands have questioned what it will mean for the future of the online advertising industry.

April 1, 2020 by Michal Wlosik, Michael Sweeney

Third-party cookies have been the backbone of the online advertising industry since the early- to mid-2000s, powering key AdTech processes like ad targeting, attribution, frequency capping, and measurement.

March 4, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

Background of the Project SITO Mobile is a publicly traded advertising technology (AdTech) company that uses consumer and location data to help brands run targeted media campaigns on mobile devices. Their software is known as a demand-side platform (DSP), which allows media buyers (e.g. brands, advertisers, and agencies) to purchase ad space from publishers (e.g. websites […]

February 14, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

On Tuesday the 14th of January, 2020, Google made an announcement that most people in the online advertising industry never thought they would hear — Google will kill off third-party cookies by 2022. Third-party cookies have been the backbone of online advertising for over a decade and power a number of key advertising processes.But what […]

February 12, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

Ever since Google Chrome announced that they’ll stop supporting third-party cookies by 2022, folks within the digital advertising industry have questioned what this means for AdTech and what impact it will have.