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41% of Marketers Unfamiliar with Cookie Alternatives: IDC Study

Most marketers (60%) think consumer concerns about tracking technology could hurt their brand reputation and the same fraction agree user tracking will soon be obsolete, according to this global IDC study for Ogury. Despite this, 41% remain moderately or not at all familiar with cookieless alternatives. Ignorance may be bliss: 61% are confident they’ll be able to reach audiences at scale in the future.

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Martech Budgets Expected to Grow Despite Headwinds: CMO Council Report

May 22, 2023

This CMO Council report for Sprinklr takes a gloomy position: the headline is 66/% of marketers lack confidence in their ability to meet revenue goals, although that includes 39% who are moderately confident. More cheerfully, 36% are increasing their martech budget for 2023 compared with 25% planning to cut it. Back on the dark side: just 23% say they have a very effective relationship with IT and just 19% strongly agree they can convince their CFO to not cut the marketing budget.

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Cookieless Ad Share Barely Budged in Q1: 33Across Report

May 22, 2023

While awareness of cookieless alternatives is interesting, the more important question is how many marketers are actually using them. This report by 33Across, which provides cookieless programmatic infrastructure, trumpets news that cooklieless ad CPMs average 21% less than cookie-based CPMs. They are more coy about revenue share, giving industry-by-industry details but no total. My math, which could be wrong, puts the figure about 23% for Q1 2023, maybe up 2% from the quarter before.

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YouTube Home to Hundreds of Election Misinformation Videos

November 5, 2024

Misleading election-related ads are “running rampant” on Meta-owned Facebook, but Google-owned YouTube is also making money from misinformation. Research by Media Matters, independently confirmed by the New York Times, found 30 YouTube channels that between them had posted almost 300 videos containing misinformation which had earned some 47 million views. YouTube is monetizing them with ads and sharing revenue with the creators.  YouTube says election-denial falsehoods don’t violate its guidelines.

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