Privacy

How would you describe the state of privacy in the ad tech industry? “In one word: fragmented,” says Tony Katsur, CEO of the IAB Tech Lab.

Mark your calendars for Jan. 4, 2024 all you deprecation skeptics. On Jan. 4, Google will begin cutting off third-party cookie access for 1% of a randomly selected group of Chrome users globally.

AppsFlyer announced its second-ever “real” acquisition on Wednesday (its first was an acqui-hire in 2018) with the purchase of devtodev, an analytics provider for app and game developers.

Consent is becoming one of the most important requirements in online advertising – and InMobi wants to help publishers collect it.

The IAB Tech Lab released its first data clean room guidance and also shared the first version of the Open Private Join and Activation (OPJA) specifications, which sets use cases to match encrypted audiences.

AppsFlyer’s solution allows advertisers and DSPs to create custom first-party segments for reengagement campaigns without needing an SDK integration of their own.

Legal drama alert: The Federal Trade Commission refiled its privacy complaint against Kochava earlier this week. The case is under a temporary seal, so details are thin on the ground (for now).

Apple has a knack for making privacy-related product announcements that cast aspersions on the data practices of any company whose name isn’t “Apple,” and there were a handful of those.

In Q1 2024, Chrome will deprecate cookies for 1% of a randomly selected group of Chrome users and slowly expand deprecation to more users throughout the year.

The US now has nine state privacy laws on the books – and the list is only going to get longer over the next couple of years.