Perspectives

The profound changes in consumer behavior that have swept the world in the last couple of years have also had distinctive local features. Cultural differences, penetration of technology, and the unique strategies of individual media players have all contributed. Nowhere is this more evident than in Latin America.

To get a sense of how campaigns will look in 2022 and what’s in store for the future of advertising, we talked to David Abad, Digital Strategy Manager at Mediacom, Colombia. We asked him to set out the key trends he sees in consumer behavior and what that means for the brands and agencies targeting them in the years ahead.

Google Chrome set an ambitious goal in their January 2020 announcement to have the key privacy-preserving advertising technologies deployed by late 2022 for the developer community to start adopting them. On June 24, Google released an updated timeline for the Privacy Sandbox and revealed a plan to phase out support for third-party cookies over a three month period starting mid-2023.

We now know that third-party cookies will be staying with us a little longer. On June 24, Google released an updated timeline for the Privacy Sandbox – a high-level plan indicating that it will phase out support for third-party cookies over a three month period starting mid-2023.

The question is – how much more time does the industry actually have? The answer is – not much. Based on the official procedures for bringing new features to Chrome, we at RTB House expect that the next two years will be filled with work.

Tasked with making client budgets deliver maximum results, media agencies have a laser focus on cost optimization and martec trends throughout the planning and execution of digital campaigns. In this article, Gabrielle de Souza, Media Supervisor at Lew’Lara\TBWA Brazil—a leading Brazilian media agency—shares her experiences planning and optimizing campaigns for global brands and how technology platforms can empower agencies to extract maximum value.

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.

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.