Privacy Sandbox

The cookieless future is fast approaching. This decision by Google, sparked by very real privacy concerns, removes a key personalization capability for advertisers: third-party cookies. To counteract this, Google has been building a series of tools to replicate their functionality, and today we’re going to dive into one of them: Google Topics API.

In this Cookieless Newsroom, you can read about RTB House’s early learnings from Privacy Sandbox’s tests, the introduction of Edge’s Privacy-Preserving Ads, regulatory bodies’ beef with the external identifiers, and many more cookieless topics.

In this Cookieless Newsroom, read about Netflix introducing an extended approach for its programmatic strategy, publishers’ worries over The Trade Desk’s comments concerning “premium” inventory, and other recent pieces of news from the press.

This Cookieless Newsroom focuses on a large number of recently published Privacy Sandbox tests, but also stays on top of other important events regarding Cookieless.

In early 2020, Google first announced its intention to retire third-party cookies from Chrome. Despite numerous twists and turns, one thing remains certain: the relevance of third-party cookies is on a downward trend across most browsers, and this will likely affect Chrome as well. This development has marketers worried about the future of personalized and relevant advertising. The good news is they don’t need to be concerned. RTB House has managed to fine-tune Chrome’s new cookieless tool—the Privacy Sandbox—so that it can tailor ads to specific users while protecting their privacy. How is this possible, and what role does the Product-Level Turtledove play in the process? Let’s dive into it.

In this edition of the Cookieless Newsroom, we highlight Microsoft’s deployment of the Ad Selection API in its Edge browser, a tool similar to Privacy Sandbox's Protected Audience API. We also cover a recent academic study demonstrating the suitability of the Protected Audience API for retargeting. Additionally, we report on a landmark European regulatory fine imposed on Google’s MarTech division.