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TikTok is facing renewed scrutiny over its data collection and sharing practices amid the US and Australia reportedly considering a ban on TikTok and other Chinese social apps, which has enlightened a frenzy of commentary and debate on censorship, data privacy, and national security. The State of TikTok Concerns Growing anti-Chinese sentiment across industries has […]
It seems like ages ago, but in late February and early March, AdAge and GumGum held a series of breakfast events in three cities to discuss critical changes to the ad industry. Key among the topics was that in less than two years, Google’s Chrome browser would effectively eliminate cookies, forcing advertisers that may have […]
Happy Monday, let’s have a productive week. In today’s briefing, Weekend in Review The Biggest Big Tech Partnership Yet Looking ahead The Weekend in Review It is a Monday, so we’ll start with the more unfavorable news first. The United States officially surpassed other countries in its tally of the most confirmed cases, reaching 500,000 […]
Nat Ives, the editor of CMO Today at The Wall Street Journal, recently spoke with PMG’s Justin Scarborough about Google’s plans to end support of third-party cookies on Chrome, and its impact for advertisers. His story detailed concerns from the ad industry’s trade groups — the Association of National Advertisers and the 4A’s — and […]
With CCPA fast approaching, PMG’s director of programmatic Justin Scarborough shares his thoughts with Luxury Daily (paywall) on the impending regulation and how luxury marketers should prepare. The article gives a quick overview of CCPA, discusses how it compares to GDPR, and the impact on marketers in terms of data ownership, digital strategies, and compliance.
A consumer’s right to online privacy has been a burning issue for nearly everyone; from consumers, companies, and now, state government officials with the CCPA providing Californian consumers with more control over their data. There’s no doubt that new laws will have a significant impact on the digital advertising industry and how consumer data is […]
Let’s start from the beginning. It’s 2009 and programmatic was born into the world of digital marketing. As the adoption of digital expanded, the floodgates opened and hundreds of data points became leverage to target consumers, allowing for vendors boasting rich data sets to aggressively sell to agencies and brands alike. Money poured into these […]
Announced last week, Facebook’s new Off-Facebook Activity tool will give each user a summary of the third-party websites and apps that share a user’s visit history information with Facebook; allowing people the opportunity to clear that history from their account if they choose to. This feature was announced last year, but given additional recommendations from […]
Let me try to sum up what happened with Cambridge Analytica as we now can better understand it in hindsight. In March of 2018, news broke that the personal data of 87 million Facebook users was exposed to a political consulting firm based out of London known as Cambridge Analytica. This personal data was mined […]
Facebook recently introduced a first-party cookie option for the Facebook Pixel, making them the latest digital platform to do so. This new feature automatically went into effect on October 24th, unless an advertiser opts-out via their pixel settings in Facebook’s Events Manager. What are 3rd-Party Cookies vs. 1st-Party Cookies? A cookie is a piece of […]