If You Ain't First, You're Last: Why Ad Tech Is Better Off Without Third-Party Cookies!

If you ain't first, you're last: why ad tech is better off without third-party cookies!'Reference linksWhat Facebook's First-Party Cookie Means for AdTechMaciej Zawadzi_ski, CEO at ClearcodeFrontiers: How Effective Is Third-Party Consumer Profiling? Evidence from Field StudiesNico Neumann, Catherine E. Tucker, Timothy WhitfieldAbstractData brokers often use online browsing records to create digital consumer profiles that they sell to marketers as predefined audiences for ad targeting. However, this process is a 'black box''little is known about the reliability of the digital profiles that are created or of the audience identification provided by buying platforms. In this paper, we investigate using three field tests the accuracy of a variety of demographic and audience-interest segments. We examine the accuracy of more than 90 third-party audiences across 19 data brokers. Audience segments vary greatly in quality and are often inaccurate across leading data brokers. In comparison with random audience selection, the use of black box data profiles, on average, increased identification of a user with a desired single attribute by 0%'77%. Audience identification can be improved, on average, by 123% when combined with optimization software. However, given the high extra costs of targeting solutions and the relative inaccuracy, we find that third-party audiences are often economically unattractive except for higher-priced media placements.WTF is Google's Privacy Sandbox?Seb Joseph, Brands editor at Digiday UKConnections Without Cookies Is the Future of the Open WebTravis Clinger, Vice President Global Strategy and Partnerships at LiveRamp