Good morning Marketer, the ad industry is ready to push back.
With Apple and Google increasingly forging their own — and disparate — paths to privacy, tracking and measurement in their browsers and operating systems, the ad industry is aiming to present a unified voice to push back and advocate for their interests.
Yesterday, leading trade groups, advertisers, agencies, ad tech and martech firms and publishers (well, one: NBC Universal) launched the Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media.
The primary aim: “protect critical functionalities” for ad targeting, personalization and attribution — which Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention and Google’s coming approach for Chrome currently threaten — and establish common, global standards for doing so.
It will be interesting to see what comes out of this group and how much leverage it has over the powerful platforms. Google’s much more likely to lend an ear than Apple, which doesn’t rely on advertising as a business model outside of its App Store and has continued to tighten restrictions with ITP.
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Ginny Marvin,
Editor-in-Chief
