This newsletter features stories that are part of Endgames, a Digiday Media editorial package focused on what's next, what's coming and what's being phased out in the industries we cover. Access the rest of our Endgames coverage here. The way people are tracked online has been a cat-and-mouse game between the biggest browsers and the ad industry for years. But in 2020, this perennial tete-a-tete changed. Google and Apple announced policy changes that left the ad industry with a conundrum: just because there are workarounds to online ad restrictions doesn’t mean they should be taken. Not when both Google and Apple are hellbent on weeding them out in the name of privacy. Read more below. - Few enjoy the feeling of being told what to do. Case in point the brouhaha around Google's, then Apple’s, decision to blunt the ad industry’s ability to run targeted ads on their properties based on a user's personal details.
- As tech, advertising and publishing employees have worked from home for most of 2020, the desire to work at a “cool” company has dissipated.
- This year, many fashion events and runway shows that would typically be held in Europe or the U.S. have moved to China. And many luxury brands have shifted resources to opening stores and social media accounts focused on Chinese consumers.
- Over the past several years, Instagram has become the advertising platform of choice for venture-backed direct-to-consumer brand. But new-to-market startups are increasingly doing away with some of the branding tactics that have been historically popular on Instagram.
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