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Topics API Today (December 2023): Assessing Its Scale and Usability
Topics API has been discussed many times in the media at a conceptual level, but there are few detailed studies, especially showing the scale of availability of these signals in the browser. We will try to answer the question of what causes this.
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Privacy Sandbox Advances, Implementation Guide for SDA, First Real-Life IPA Tests
In this Media Review, you can read about how Privacy Sandbox evolved and determine how close we are to third-party cookies deprecation, find out about key learnings from the recently released SDA Implementation Guide, and see how Meta’s Interoperable Private Attribution tests went.
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Privacy Sandbox: What’s Next After 1% Cookie Deprecation?
As Chrome plans the deprecation of third-party cookies for early 2025, and the deadline is fast approaching, the AdTech ecosystem is in pressing need of a detailed plan of how the phase-out of third-party cookies will look. A clear schedule will help ensure efficient planning and coordination, allowing for a smooth transition to a stable, vibrant ad ecosystem based on Privacy Sandbox. To help achieve this clarity—and to initiate a wider discussion—in this blog post, we will propose what we believe is a viable next step after the 1% deprecation.
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Your Guide to Protected Audience API
Google is coming for your cookies, and not the tasty kind lying safely in a tin in your kitchen, but the third-party ones that sit in your browser, watching, waiting, and storing all kinds of information. This has major implications, some good and some bad, for marketers and consumers alike. It also means that many of our old tools will soon become obsolete. However, you don’t need to crack open your tin of real cookies and start stress-eating yet. There are plenty of new tools on their way, one of which we’re going to get into today: The Protected Audience API.
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Privacy Sandbox General Availability, Related Website Sets Available For All and Other News
In this Media Review, you can read about Privacy Sandbox’s General Availability, rebranding of First-Party Sets and enlarging its scale, further obstacles in the way of tracking individual users across the Internet, and regulatory updates in Europe.
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Everything You Need to Know About Google Topics API
The cookieless future is fast approaching. This decision by Google, sparked by very real privacy concerns, removes a key personalization capability for advertisers: third-party cookies. To counteract this, Google has been building a series of tools to replicate their functionality, and today we’re going to dive into one of them: Google Topics API.
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Edge Comes to Play in the Sandbox
In this edition of the Cookieless Newsroom, we highlight Microsoft’s deployment of the Ad Selection API in its Edge browser, a tool similar to Privacy Sandbox's Protected Audience API. We also cover a recent academic study demonstrating the suitability of the Protected Audience API for retargeting. Additionally, we report on a landmark European regulatory fine imposed on Google’s MarTech division.