Tag: Cookies

January 20, 2022 by Michael Sweeney

Privacy has been a key element of the programmatic advertising and digital marketing industries for the past few years.

August 19, 2021 by Michael Sweeney, Paulina Zawiślak

In today’s interview, we are going to dive into this whole third-party cookies topic and address a number of questions, including what third-party cookies are, what role they play in programmatic advertising, and what impact there will be for programmatic advertising in a world without third-party cookies.

November 20, 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.

February 17, 2022 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.

August 9, 2021 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.Then, on Thursday June 24, 2021, Google Chrome announced that it would be extending its planned sunset of third-party cookies by 2 years. […]

July 5, 2021 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 […]

January 21, 2020 by Michael Sweeney, Michal Wlosik

The lead up to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on May 25, 2018, was akin to previous looming deadlines like the Y2k bug. The anxious anticipation and speculations set the industry on fire: GDPR-themed blog posts, articles, analyses, predictions started spreading like wildfire. In the weeks and months leading up to the […]

November 27, 2020 by Maciej Zawadziński, Michal Wlosik

Over the years, cookies have been the lifeblood of online advertising, driving targeted digital marketing and attribution. They are currently the most common method of identifying users online and enabling a personalized browsing experience. However, the growing awareness of privacy issues and the introduction of privacy-centered European laws (GDPR and ePrivacy) has put pressure on […]

March 22, 2022 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.

November 25, 2020 by Maciej Zawadziński, Michal Wlosik

First-party cookies are the lifeblood of every website, enabling businesses to remember key pieces of information about users and to collect analytics data. Third-party cookies are the bread and butter of AdTech, allowing publishers to monetize their websites, and brands to run advertising and marketing campaigns. However, the introduction of the EU’s General Data-Protection Regulation […]