Category: AdTech Industry

December 16, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

One of my favorite things to do in December is read all the “predictions” articles that come out this time of year. For me, reading about the programmatic and AdTech industry from different perspectives is always an insightful activity.

August 3, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

On July 29, 2020, the CEOs of Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (GAFA) testified before the House Judiciary subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. The topic of the hearing was “Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 6: Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.”The hearing lasted for more than 5 hours and […]

July 23, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

During its yearly Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June 2020, Apple released a bunch of changes to its devices and operating systems like they always do. But nestled between the shiny UI upgrades and new Memoji stickers were a series of privacy updates to iOS that all but signalled the end of the lifeblood of […]

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 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, […]

May 14, 2020 by Maciej Zawadziński

With all the recent news about Google Chrome’s decision to kill off third-party cookies over the next two years, anyone would think it’s the first piece of news the AdTech industry has heard about the end of third-party cookies. But it isn’t.

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.