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FLEDGE’s Rebranding, UID 2.0 Goes Private, SDA Context Proves Reliable, Google’s IBA Test, and Other News
In this Media Review, you can read 5 stories, including Google renaming FLEDGE to Protected Audience API, results from Google Ads’ IBA testing, and more details about Apple’s change in Safari.
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Seller-Defined Audiences Analysis Series – Part II: Contextual SDA Quality Tests
Key takeaways from this article:- Contextual SDA passed both quality tests we performed and described in this article
- The mechanisms we used to assess the contextual SDA signals’ quality were: SSPs’ audiences sent via Deal IDs and RTB House’s proprietary ContextAI engine
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RTB House Perspective on Google’s Topics Experiment Whitepaper
On April 18th, Google published the results from Google Ads’ interest-based advertising testing, where, among other tools, Topics API was analyzed. We are happy that the Google Ads team joined RTB House and Criteo in openly publishing findings from experiments with Privacy Sandbox APIs.
In the report, the Google Ads team compares the effectiveness of applying Topics API, contextual signals, and publisher first-party IDs instead of cookies for Interest-Based Advertising (IBA). Third-party cookies were allowed in this experiment for use cases unrelated to targeting, such as frequency capping and measurement.
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What Are First-Party Cookies, and How Can Brands Use Them to Reach Customers?
The cookieless future is fast approaching, and this means that brands need to rebuild their marketing strategies around alternatives to third-party cookies. Navigating this new environment will require mastering a suite of tools, including another type of cookies: first-party cookies.
To understand how you can make the most of first-party cookies, let’s dive into what they are, how they work, and how advertisers use them.
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TCF Action Freeze, Big Tech Antitrust Update, SDA Buy-Side Analysis, and Other News
In this Media Review, you can read 6 stories, including big tech antitrust update, Meta letting users opt out of some targeted ads (and only in selected countries), and ramping the FLEDGE origin trial back up and launching isolated experiments.
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FLEDGE’s Momentum, Green Light for TrustPID, Clean Rooms Standardized, and Other News
In this Media Review, you can find out more about the testing progress of FLEDGE, the green light for the joint venture creation of TrustPID—a digital ad platform (by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone), the Privacy Sandbox Beta coming to Android, and more.
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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.
