Tag: Cookies

November 21, 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.

July 28, 2022 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 […]

November 10, 2020 by Maciej Zawadziński

While the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its “baby sister” the ePrivacy Regulation may be full of ambiguous statements and legal jargon, one thing is clear; if you collect data from EU citizens, then your world is going to look a whole lot different come May 25, 2018. Even though most of the […]

November 25, 2020 by Maciej Zawadziński

Apple has built a strong reputation as a leader in tech innovation, and has stayed at the forefront of user privacy protection as well. With its update of iOS 11 and Safari, the company is taking the privacy of its customers one step further with a feature known as Intelligent Tracking Prevention.

October 14, 2019 by Maciej Zawadziński

As long as companies have the ability to track, collect and use consumer data for their advertising efforts, privacy issues will loom large. Consumers are being tracked online more than ever before, as opportunities abound for the display ad industry to turn data into dollars. All of this opportunity, however, comes with a price (above […]

November 27, 2020 by Maciej Zawadziński

There is a lot of talk within the industry about the future of third-party cookies. Some say they will always have a place in the online advertising ecosystem, while others argue they simply won’t be around in the coming years, either due to ad blockers or new technologies that will provide universal tracking across devices, […]

June 7, 2022 by Maciej Zawadziński

If you work in online advertising, then you’ve probably heard of cookie syncing. But what is it? How does it work? And why do AdTech and data companies use it? In this post, we’ll take answer those very questions, and many more! You can first start by watching our short video to get an overview […]

November 27, 2020 by Maciej Zawadziński

Before the days of the Internet, advertisers and marketers would target their target audience by showing their ads on TV at certain times of the day, publishing their ads in newspapers that their audience read, and putting up billboards in places where their audience would see it. Nowadays, advertisers and marketers can tap into the […]

August 20, 2019 by Maciej Zawadziński

Are you reading this post on your mobile device? According to GlobalWebIndex, there is a very good chance that you are. A recent report released by the market-research group states that over 75% of mobile-device owners use their mobile to access the Internet. This increase in mobile usage has touched all areas of the Internet: […]

November 10, 2020 by Maciej Zawadziński

Cookies are a fundamental mechanism used in the advertising industry for ad personalisation and behavioural targeting, re-targeting, frequency capping and much more. Nowadays, a majority of ad technology providers that are disrupting* advertising industry are still relying on cookies to a great extent. With recent bad publicity around cookies, new European legislation (so called Cookie law) and new […]