Pieter de Zwart, Eyeota Chief Technology Officer explores the future of the cookie for The Drum. The cookie’s fall from grace has been nothing short of epic. Misused and abused, the cookie has carried the blame for the consumer privacy concerns that plague programmatic advertising to this day. While many have already declared it dead, it might serve us all to pause and acknowledge that, in truth, the cookie is far from obsolete. It’s likely that cookies will play a more peripheral role in digital advertising moving forward, but for now, they are still the fundamental backbone of the internet.
Financial services advertising, which includes (but is not limited to) commercial banking, insurance, investment and credit card advertisers, is a major contributor to global digital advertising spend the U.S. In fact, digital spend from the financial services sector is expected to reach $15.69bn in 2019, representing 12.1% of all digital ad spend in the U.S.1
Speaking to AdNews, Eyeota international managing director Aaron Jackson said the ad tech buying spree is by no means over and more consolidation is inevitable, as data continues to lure companies in. He stresses that market contraction should not "cause concern".
Nine months on from the introduction of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the first major fine has been handed down to Google for not being transparent and clear enough with consumers about how their data is being used. Aaron Jackson, Eyeota's Managing Director, International shares his advice about how to build a business with privacy at the heart of it.
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