FLoC

Contextual targeting might not be a new, flashy approach, but with the shift towards privacy-friendly cookieless advertising, it’s about to become a crucial part of every advertiser’s outreach strategy. As Google retires third-party cookies, old methods of targeting will become ineffective, and the ability to target interested users through more subtle markets, like content context, will be one of the keys to marketing success.

Let’s learn more about contextual targeting, look at some contextual advertising examples, and learn how you can deploy it in your campaigns.

In this Media Review, we selected four articles about potential direction for FLoC, detailed description of Google’s Attribution Reporting API, the analysis of SWAN and the explanation of UID 2.0.

It’s time for our 4th Media Review. This month, we selected 5 stories, such as an update from Chrome on the progress of the Privacy Sandbox and an analysis of the future of reporting.

It’s time for the next part of our “Media Review” series. We take a deeper look at five pieces of content – including digital advertising analyses involving Apple’s ATT, a protocol for a privacy-preserving measurement, and the progress in Google’s Privacy Sandbox.

2021 was a year full of important news for the future of digital advertising. Let’s take a look at the most impactful 2021 digital advertising trends from the industry perspective.

Six months ago, during IETF 111, Google engineers made it clear that they were approaching a new iteration of FLoC, which was related to site topics. Yesterday, they finally announced Topics API. The ad topics concept has also been explored by Meta engineers in their Ad Topic Hints proposal, which builds on user feedback to displayed ads. Also, the PAURAQUE proposal from NextRoll was proposed in such a way that users could define topics which are interesting for them and can be used for personalization.