Blog about Digital Advertising & Marketing Technology

Video content grows from year to year. In 2021 the average viewer retains 95% of the message while watching it, as opposed to just 10% of the retention rate when reading it, 55% of consumers use movies to make purchasing decisions. What’s the future of video content and how to measure the effectiveness of video content?

Change is constant in digital marketing but 2022 looks set to be a year where landmark shifts, including ID-less advertising and contextual targeting, will be formed. Three of RTB House’s in-house experts predict the huge changes on the horizon.

For years, brands and agencies have been using third-party cookies to track website visitors’ behavior, improve the user experience, and collect trending martech data from across the web to optimize audience targeting strategies. However, this year Google announced that it would be joining Firefox and Safari in removing third-party cookies from its Chrome browser by 2023, ultimately changing the future of advertising. Marketers across the world have spent the last 12 months digesting, understanding, and preparing for this change. In this article, Julie Keating, VP of Digital Marketing and Media at Havas Edge, shares her journey from first hearing Google’s announcement to change the future of advertising, to recent learnings from campaigns that have used cookieless targeting solutions.

A report prepared by Wave9 shows that 89% of Internet users mainly watch videos during the day on the Internet. The report by MarketingCharts.com proves that the average person watches 84 minutes of videos every day. It seems that consumers prefer videos over other content on the Internet. That’s why personalized video marketing is becoming more and more important in the contemporary world. Personalized videos generate 42% more profits than non-personalized content (according to HubSpot).

The process of advertising inventory purchasing has significantly evolved over the course of recent years. Another (r)evolution is right around the corner and it’s because of the deprecation of 3rd-party cookies.

By the end of 2023, it will be impossible to use third-party cookies in Chrome which currently commands a 70% market share. The loss of third-party cookies poses challenges for marketers when it comes to tracking and understanding consumers’ online buying behaviors. RTB House spoke to Piotr Śladowski, Digital Communication Manager at Wavemaker Poland, to understand how media agencies are helping brands best prepare for the new era of cookieless digital advertising.