In the age of Big Data, you can glean a wealth of information simply with a few mouse clicks. Likewise, the marketing and advertising industry has a vast amount of data at its fingertips—data that can be collected, analyzed and interpreted to aid in campaign creation and design. At the same time, data privacy and data security are of growing concern to both consumers and companies. Brands and agencies have taken notice—and they are making lots of changes. Adweek presents this Data category, which covers data news and its global effect on the marketing industry and major brands.
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Uber’s First Chief Privacy Officer on Finding Mindfulness and a Trip to Vegas

Uber is a company with revenues of  $31.8 billion in 2022, with an ads business worth $500 million.

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Apple’s Safari Quietly Made It Harder for Sites to Work With Third Parties Like Google Analytics

Apple is closing another loophole for cloaking third parties in first party cookies, which could cause headaches for brands and publishers websites.

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Google’s Rare Privacy Sandbox Test Highlights More Questions for the Cookieless Future

The results show that some privacy-preserving targeting protocol don't perform dramatically worse than third-party cookies, though lots of unknowns remain.

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Publishers Seek More Money From Platforms to Pacify Their AI Woes

A similar bill in Australia has led to publishers collectively extract hundreds of millions from platforms.

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Fast Food’s Next Battleground: In-House Delivery

Data-hungry brands scramble to onboard customers to their own apps.

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Momentum for Testing Cookie Alternatives Stalls on the Buy Side

With cookie deprecation delayed, more buyers are taking a wait-and-see, rather than proactive, approach.

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Most People Have Not Heard of the Circular Economy. Marketers Can Help

New data from an Adweek-Morning Consult survey demonstrates an opportunity for brands to educate

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Publishers Call Out Ad-Tech Firms’ Sale of Contextual Data as IP Theft

Under threat of cookie deprecation, an old practice is drawing new ire.

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Requests for Companies to Delete People’s Data Have Soared

52% of the privacy requests were outside of California, including states that have yet to implement a privacy law.

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What Utah’s New Social Media Law Means for Marketers

The law could inversely raise CPMs and cause inflation for ads that would ideally run between 10.30 p.m. and 6.30 a.m.

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AI Tools Have Publishers Fretting Over ‘Fair Use’ and Revenue Loss

OpenAI is willing to pay for high-quality data, such as science, that is used to feed ChatGPT.

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Pixels Are the Next Digital Advertising Workhorse Facing Tougher FTC Scrutiny

While cookies have gotten more attention, pixels, a broader and more far-reaching technology, are facing fresh regulatory attention.

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Advertisers Get Ahead of Potential Privacy Hiccups in Data Clean Rooms

There are several areas to uphold data privacy within clean rooms that buyers and sellers should be aware of.

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Hyundai’s Brand Consideration Peaks After Ad Correcting How People Say Its Name

YouGov's brand tracking score saw record discussions around the brand in January