Category: Data & Privacy

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.

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.

January 31, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

On Tuesday the 14th of January, 2020, Google announced that it would shutting off support for third-party cookies by 2022.

January 14, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

What impact do privacy laws like the GDPR and privacy settings like Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) have on AdTech?

December 4, 2019 by Michael Sweeney

December 31, 2019, will mark the end of a decade. It will also mark the end of an era in online advertising — one where third-party cookies have powered mass data collection and user privacy has been ignored.

October 3, 2019 by Maciej Zawadziński, Michael Sweeney

Third-party cookies have long been the backbone of online advertising, allowing advertisers to measure the success of their campaigns and improve targeting, as well helping publishers monetize their websites. But over the past few years, the reliance of third-party cookies has decreased due to changes in user behavior (e.g. installing ad-blocking software) and new privacy […]

August 1, 2019 by Maciej Zawadziński, Michael Sweeney

The Wild West era in America during the late 1880s gave rise to a new genre of film known as Westerns, which depicted vast and rugged landscapes with men riding on horseback, regularly engaging in gunfights. Indeed, the Wild West is famous for lawlessness, vigilantism, and outlaws on the run. Are there any similarities to how […]

May 30, 2019 by Michal Wlosik

Cookies remember website configuration, login details and products added to the shopping cart. For years they’ve also been the backbone of online advertising for targeting, retargeting, tracking and attribution. We’ve compiled a list of the most popular web browsers and explain how they handle first-party and third-party cookies. Cookies are currently the most common method […]

March 20, 2019 by Michal Wlosik, Michael Sweeney, Maciej Zawadziński

The European Union’s General Data-Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in force for almost a year, but in spite of numerous publications in the media there is still a lot of misinformation and confusion around it. In our new webinar, we guide through the key concepts of GDPR, discuss what the regulation means for AdTech companies, […]