The story that started here as GOOGLE’S DÉJÀ VU will have lots of future twists and turns as the (third-party) cookie crumbles. We decided to follow the chapters that we actually understand and think are important in the Marketing Wilderness context: “Google Grants a [...]
The story that started here as GOOGLE’S DÉJÀ VU will have lots of future twists and turns as the (third-party) cookie crumbles. We decided to follow the chapters that we actually understand and think are important in the Marketing Wilderness context. Let’s do this in [...]
In January, 2020, Google advised the marketing world that it was doing away with the third-party browser cookie by 2022. Then came the pandemic. So earlier this month, when Google (Alphabet Inc) announced it would not develop its own replacement for third-party cookie data, or [...]
In late June of this year, ‘global growth’ consultant Frost & Sullivan published a report on the state of automotive retailing—automotive being a key practice area for the firm. Here are some highlights from the USD 5k study, [1] most of which I needed to translate [...]
You know when a new (-ish) marketing topic gets serious coverage in the general business media, the topic is a fundamental one. The June 27th Globe & Mail Report on Business cover story was titled “How automation is shaking up the advertising industry” [1] and described [...]
What do Facebook, YouTube & Twitter all have in common? Quite a few things, actually: All three are hugely popular Internet-based social media (admittedly, YouTube doesn’t usually get called social media, but based on the next point, it is) All depend on their users/members for [...]
