If you're wondering what PPC or pay-per-click is, essentially it is a model used in online advertising as a way to drive traffic onto a website. The way PPC works is that every time someone clicks on that ad and is redirected to your website, an advertiser (you) has to pay a certain fee to...
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Apple blocks Email Tracking – What does this mean for you?
Working in marketing makes you more concerned about privacy than anything else. Are you aware that marketers are tracking each time you open an email newsletter and find out where you were at the time? Apple made it impossible to track this information in September 2021, causing a little panic among marketers. As a built-in...
Marketing in a cookieless world
Google has stated that it will eliminate third-party cookies by 2023. Google's announcement will have a huge impact on the marketing industries and make them move to a cookieless future. To maintain their sales, 44 percent of marketers plan to increase their spending by 5-25 percent. Marketing without Third-Party Cookies While your devices don't always...
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency may not be strong enough
Apple introduced App Tracking Transparency last year which prohibits app developers from tracking users' activity across different apps without their explicit consent. Privacy advocates applauded the initiative. Facebook warned that it would bring down targeted advertising companies. Research published last week shows that App Tracking Transparency does not always prevent the collection of surreptitious personal...
Is server-side tracking the solution to privacy and cookie woes?
There are a lot of articles that misrepresent the process of server-side tracking or ignore key facts. In this article, we cover the most important aspects of server-side tracking and explain how you can use it for your business. What does server-side tracking actually mean? Server-side tracking requires that you change the way you track...
How to implement Cookie-less tracking with Matomo
Cookie-less tracking sounds like an attractive idea to have a good user experience on your website while still being able to gather valuable user data. Matomo offers such as feature and from a technical point of view, it's simply a matter of adding a line into the matomo script. This sets a cookie to prevent...
The six step guide for a sucessful content marketing strategy
Content marketing is an important part of you overall business strategy. It helps you build trust with your audience and it allows you to connect with your audience on a deeper level. Your content will not only help you attract leads but also educate prospects and increase awareness about your brand. A sucessful content marketing...
The importance of Omnichannel Marketing
Omnichannel marketing is the process of creating a seamless customer experience across all channels. This involves creating a consistent brand identity and message that can be easily recognized no matter where the customer is interacting with your company. The goal of omnichannel marketing is to provide a cohesive customer experience that leads to loyalty and...
Belgian Data Protection Authority: Central standard for cookie banners unlawful
The Belgian data protection authority Autorité de protection des données (APD) has declared a central standard for online advertising to be inadmissible under data protection law. It has imposed a fine of 250,000 euros on the advertising organization IAB Europe. In addition, the IAB was asked to delete all collected data. Because the decision was...
What is GPT-3?
GPT-3, also known as the third generation Generative Pre-trained Transformer is a neural network machine-learning model that uses internet data to generate any kind of text. Developed by OpenAI, it requires very little input text to produce large volumes of machine-generated text that is relevant and sophisticated. OpenAI was founded in 2015 as an independent...