Google postpones third-party cookie removal from Chrome until early 2025

1.5 Flash excels at summarization, chat applications, image and video captioning, data extraction from long documents and tables, and more. (Representative Image: Lauren Edvalson via Unsplash)

Google cites ongoing talks with regulators and industry testing needs for pushing back phase-out originally planned for 2020. This offers businesses more time to adapt online advertising strategies.

Elections 2024: Big tech’s ad transparency tools not so transparent?

While the audit analyses are global parameters that were tested, the gaps apply to data disclosures across markets including India that is currently in the mists of its Lok Sabha polls. Analysts, media planners and strategists rely heavily on the ad libraries for data, spending patterns and transparency. Image by dole777 via Unsplash)

A recent audit by Mozilla Foundation CheckFirst revealed Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Alphabet,X and many others, have shortcomings in their ad libraries, hindering transparency.

BARC mulling expansion of viewership measurement with 12,000 home digital panel: EXCLUSIVE

No doubt, the growth of regional OTT platforms highlights the increasing demand for localised content, posing a potential challenge to global giants like JioCinema, Netflix, Disney+Hotstar, and Amazon Prime Video. (Image source: Unsplash)

Forward-looking measures by industry body BARC address evolving marketers and advertisers’ need for data.