Last week, LiveRamp announced that its Authenticated Identity Infrastructure would support The Trade Desk’s Unified ID 2.0 (now without third-party cookies!). The biggest concern about whether identity-based universal IDs—like LiveRamp’s and TTD’s Unified ID 2.0—can be successful (and potentially save the open programmatic ecosystem from being dominated by walled gardens) is…
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The industry doesn’t need a direct replacement for the third-party tracking cookie, and there are already a variety of solutions out there to take its place without mentioning Google’s budding privacy sandbox. To dive further into the many identification options circling around the industry, I caught up with one of…
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Last week's news that AppNexus was "no longer participating" in the Advertising ID Consortium resulted in a lot of speculation that the group of shared-ID proponents were finished and universal IDs were doomed. Well, there's life left in the old girl yet—sources tell us that while AppNexus has foregone its…
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Say it ain't so, AT&T! Following its acquisition, AppNexus has pulled out of the Advertising ID Consortium. A founding member of the universal open ID collective, AppNexus' departure potentially leaves the consortium in peril. However, this might be an opportunity for the universal ID cause to make a beneficial pivot.
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