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 […]
Facebook recently joined other tech giants like Google and Amazon in entering the home smart device market. On October 8th, Facebook dropped the big news on its site and announced its latest product creation: Portal and Portal+. Portal and Portal+ Both Portal and Portal+ are equipped with a large screen display and an AI-powered camera […]
From the launch of IGTV, Instagram’s newest video format, to increased transparency across social platforms, Q2 swept in change and innovation. We’ve rounded up the highlights of Q2 2018 in today’s post to ensure you don’t miss anything as we kick off Q3 2018 and get into Holiday planning. Facebook Privacy Updates Following the Cambridge […]
If you think back six weeks — granted, a difficult task in 2018 — you may recall hearing something about a new privacy law in California. It was framed as if Godzilla had loosened his grip on Tokyo (Tokyo is a stand-in for the EU in this metaphor) and leaped across the Pacific, landing squarely […]
Editor’s Note: With less than 30 days until implementation, we’ve outlined what we see to be the five most important things your brand can be doing to prepare for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. While this list is not inclusive of everything you must do to be GDPR-compliant, we think it’s a good start […]