The core of data-driven marketing is better characterisation of the individual. Google, Facebook and other platforms characterise users’ desires and match them to companies that can satisfy them. Users contribute to smart ecosystems, overlaid across devices and applications, and companies are analysing and capitalising on information quickly and in near real-time. It allows them to […]
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 […]
It may have taken 16 years, but YouTube is finally growing up, at least in terms of being a viable growth driver for the world’s largest search engine, Google, and its parent company Alphabet. For the three months ending June 30, the online video sharing and social media platform booked its highest revenues ever, delivering […]
Tinuiti, the performance marketing firm across the Triopoly of Google, Facebook, and Amazon announced that it has earned TikTok’s Campaign Management badge within the TikTok Marketing Partner Program, becoming the first US-independent agency to receive the accreditation from the leading destination for short-form mobile video. The accreditation will help Tinuiti clients leverage TikTok’s comprehensive suite […]
Zoom Video Communications Inc announced a $14.7 billion all-stock deal to buy cloud-based call centre operator Five9 Inc in its largest-ever acquisition, as competition intensifies in its core video conferencing sector. The teleconferencing services provider has become an investor favourite in the year since the coronavirus pandemic, as businesses and schools adopted its services to […]
GoDaddy Inc. announced an integration with Google which allows GoDaddy customers a way to get discovered across Google surfaces from GoDaddy’s Online Store. This expansion to GoDaddy’s current Google offering will make it easy for customers to scale their businesses and reach millions of new shoppers via Google. Without leaving their GoDaddy Online Store, customers […]
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, launched the ‘National Program for Coders’ a major new initiative to foster the growth of the digital economy. The landmark Program will introduce a series of initiatives to develop talent, expertise and innovation in the […]
MatchCraft announces the launch of Powered by. In productising MatchCraft’s suite of APIs, third-party platforms gain access to the technology used by AdVantage to power search, social, and display campaigns for local businesses across the globe. At the core of Powered by is a suite of cross-functional, multi-channel APIs that provide access to robust and […]
Google has delayed its major Privacy Sandbox change to its Chrome browser, pushing back a plan to block third-party cookies until late 2023 as it determines how to protect users while providing web publishers a way to make money. The Privacy Sandbox initiative aims to create web technologies that both protect people’s privacy online and […]
Google could face its biggest regulatory threat, with EU antitrust regulators set to open a formal investigation into its lucrative digital advertising business before the end of the year, reported Reuters. It would mark a new front by the EU competition enforcer against Google. It has in the last decade fined the company more than […]
