After five years of promises, billions spent, and a cookieless future touted as inevitable, Google’s recent decision to hold onto third-party cookies has left the ad industry in limbo. Experts across the region call it a strategic stall and a blow to privacy leadership.
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The cookie stays crumbled: APAC experts weigh in on Google decision
Should brands compensate consumers for their data?
As brands increasingly adopt tactics to collect first-party data, questions arise about the value of compensating consumers for their data and how such practices might influence customer loyalty and trust.
Can retail media compensate for weaknesses in performance media?
Following reports on declines in performance media earnings, Campaign explores what strategies marketers can employ to navigate this changing landscape—including the promise of retail media.
South Korea fines Meta $15 million over data breach
Meta faces the multi-million dollar penalty for funnelling sensitive user data to advertisers, as South Korea tightens its privacy laws.
Google introduces confidential matching for advertisers
Using confidential computing technology, advertisers can now ensure complete data security and privacy.
Are you really ready for a new era of privacy-centric marketing?
New privacy regulations are changing the digital advertising game forever—Google shares three ways brands can play, and win, under the new rules.
Reddit will no longer allow users to opt-out of ad personalisation
The mandatory opt-in for personalised ads was announced as part of a series of settings updates that will gradually be rolled out in the coming weeks. Select unspecified countries will still be able to opt-out.
Ads served on YouTube kids content may have triggered widespread tracking of children online: Report
Adalytics report alleges ads served by Google on YouTube kids content — sometimes against the wishes of advertisers — caused a chain reaction of tracking children online.
Invisible ad fraud uncovered on Google Play apps, affects millions of Korean Android users says new cyber report
Researchers have uncovered 43 rogue apps that collectively received 2.5 million covert downloads, violating Google Play's developer standards.
TikTok fined £12.7m for children's data and privacy breaches
The UK’s data watchdog said TikTok failed to protect the privacy of 1.4 million children.
The importance of delivering a personalised experience in times of privacy
Privacy can no longer be a business afterthought; it must be a strategy from inception, says Cybage executive.
Data clean rooms: The solution for brands' identity hurdles?
The demand for DCRs has skyrocketed due to privacy concerns and growing first-party data use by advertisers. We look at how effectively brands are using this tool and what its limitations are.
Instagram responds to 'precise location' user concerns
Instagrammers are concerned that their location could be made public.
How brands can turn first-party data into practical insights
First-party data has become more critical for marketers with the demise of cookies and other user identifiers. Now brands are quickly learning how use their customer data tools and platforms more strategically.
Do brands have a place on a social platform that tries to stay out of your life?
Social network Hey You reminds you to call your loved ones once a week, then fades into the background, leaning into a trend of desire for more authenticity on social media.
How will Apple balance privacy and personalisation as it grows ad business
Industry experts predict how iPhone maker will construct its rumored DSP to appease privacy-conscious consumers, regulators and an ad industry disgruntled by its tracking restrictions.
Here's Google's plan to to help advertisers manage rapidly evolving privacy regulation
David Temkin, senior director of product management, ads privacy and user trust at Google, who is leading the charge on preserving ad targeting and measurement while tracking restrictions loom, discusses these shifts.
Provide privacy or perish: WE study
Consumer understanding of data privacy is more sophisticated than ever, and brands should step up their game on protection, according to WE’s Brands in Motion study.