Olapic helps companies manage visual content generated by users, professionals, and that in-between group known as influencers. They recently (well, a month ago) added a service that can embed shopping cart hotspots within images or videos. Because let’s face it: the most authentic thing about any brand is its desire is to sell you stuff.
Advertisers worried about losing access to customer data because of Facebook, Google, Amazon and other walled gardens have a new friend: ad tech company Sonobi, which just opened a public beta of an addressable marketplace reaching up to 225 million individuals across premium online publications. The marketplace uses a “People Based Identifier” that can track individuals across multiple environments, offering scale and precision to match the walled gardens. The marketplace is integrated with major programmatic buying platforms.
The CDP Institute is having a birthday (read the blog post) and, true to form, the present we most want is data: specifically, answers to a survey asking what you, Dear Members, would like to see us do next. There are just six questions; please take a minute or two to fill it out. Thanks!
Google has given up on its FLoC cookie-less targeting initiative, which faced insurmountable privacy objections. The replacement, which mercifully does not reference anything bird-related, is Topics API, which will offer three recent interests for each individual based on sites they have recently visited. The loss in targeting and tracking power is so huge that you wonder if Google is purposely showing what tighter privacy is costing the industry. Or maybe they’re just kneecapping competitors.