Now, increasing restrictions on data collection, changes to Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA), and the death of the third-party cookie will mean that winning brands must reduce their dependence on third parties, and place a greater focus on first-party data and owned channels. In short, they’ll need more direct-to-consumer (D2C) marketing, and less (though still plenty) advertising.

The intermediation of programmatic transactions opened up a number of opportunities for fraud and data leakage in display advertising. Christiana Cacciapuoti, executive director at industry consortium AdLedger, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss the latest tests of the CryptoRTB protocol, how it will help advertisers avoid fraud, and what advertisers need to understand about cryptography in programmatic transactions.

Penske gets into the first-party-data business: The publisher may have an extra edge given its specific collection of art-, music-, and entertainment-focused content.

eMarketer was pleased to moderate a Tech-Talk Webinar featuring Redpoint Global's Bill Porto, senior engineering analyst, and Steve Zisk, senior product marketing manager, for this Tech-Talk Webinar. They explored how machine learning can be applied to customer data to predict and adapt to changing trends, behaviors, and responses for every kind of journey.

Where is the Android OS used more than the iOS? Everywhere