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Privacy-Protecting Systems Are The New Green

Customer Experience Matrix

You could also add add products whose purpose is privacy, like ad blockers or proxy servers; the gazillion contenders in the pay-people-to-watch ads industry; privacy-enhancing extensions to standard products such as Google Chrome and Firefox; and, perhaps most prominent, the privacy-centered positioning of Apple.

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What’s the Best Alternative to Google Universal Analytics for SMBs?

Webbiquity

end of Google’s Universal Analytics (UGA) rapidly approaching, digital marketing professionals are frantically seeking alternatives. It’s tightly tied to Google Tag Manager (GTM), a system so convoluted and confusing that even Google’s own technical staff often struggle to make it work properly. What to do?

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Consent and transparency need to be top data privacy concerns for marketers

illumin

Data privacy is critical to successful marketing. Effective marketing requires the collection and analysis of user data across digital platforms. User consent and personal privacy are paramount to ethical data collection. And so is consent. There are several concerns of note when collecting customer data.

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Web analytics is badly broken 

Martech

Years ago, I was working with an ecommerce team that would hire and fire based on what they saw in their Google Analytics dashboard. The reason for this is one word: privacy. Google is building a consent mode to perform data modeling that fills in data that can’t be collected from opt-out users. Less data or less depth?

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Google’s cookie deprecation: An essential marketing playbook for the post-cookie era

Martech

Google’s full deprecation of third-party cookies is right around the corner. No matter where your company is at in the post-third-party preparation curve, the truth is that we won’t fully realize the impact on our marketing efforts until Google finally flips the switch and we head into the unknown.

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Email Client Market Share: Trends from August to October 2022

Litmus

Before diving in, there are two things we always like to note: As of fall 2021, the category “Apple” includes Apple iPhone (iOS Mail), Apple Mail (macOS Mail), Apple iPad (iPadOS Mail), and Apple Mail Privacy Protection (Apple privacy-impacted opens). Google Android: 1.6%. Analysis of Apple clients. Gmail: 28.5%.

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Are Your Email Marketing Metrics Being Impacted by Gmail Prefetching Images?

Litmus

The email marketing community has kept close watch on how Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) may disrupt the significance of traditional email marketing metrics since last fall. Comes from a Google IP address. Now it seems we need to add Gmail–which is prefetching images under certain circumstances–to the list, too.