Brands are embracing the end of third-party cookies with new levels of transparency and authentic conversations. Every brand is now a data company, would you agree? With the increasing technological and data-driven growth, privacy is becoming a top priority demand by customers. According to Forrester, over 77 per cent of adults use at least one […]
Google introduced an alternative to FLoC that suffered some backlash for posing a privacy risk. Google is optimistic about Topics API but some brands still have apprehensions about it Early last year, Google replaced third-party cookies with a system to track people’s interests called the Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). It tracks people’s interests based […]
A final glance at the top news announcements that made headlines in 2021 Customer is the king. They remained at the top of the priority list across sectors, as businesses tried to get back in the game. Marketing trends such as digitisation, automation, social selling, first party data, hybrid models, and cloud adoption made headlines. […]
TLDR: FLoC, according to Google, “is a new way for businesses to reach people with relevant content and ads by clustering large groups of people with similar interests. This approach effectively hides individuals ‘in the crowd’ and uses on-device processing to keep a person’s web history private on the browser.” Over the years, customer data […]
Google has updated the schedule for its introduction of “Privacy Sandbox” browser technology and the phasing out of third-party cookies. The new timeline has split the bundle of technologies in the Privacy Sandbox into five phases: discussion, testing, implementation in Chrome (called “Ready for adoption”), Transition State 1 during which Chrome will “monitor adoption and […]
Google’s alternative to the third-party cookie has met with suspicion from a section of marketers and internet companies. On the one hand, FLoC gives advertisers and marketers the freedom to do business without third-party cookies, on the other, FLoC has been called Google’s way of monopolising the search market industry. Why is Google’s act of […]
We take a look at Google’s offering to marketers as the chosen alternative to third-party cookies. What is Google trying to achieve with FLoC? How does it help marketers? Will marketers be able to shrug off the age-old tradition of working with third-party data and adopt data hygiene in their process? Cookie – Thou Shall […]
