Enhanced Publisher Analytics: Privacy-Respecting Audience Targeting Without Personal Tracking
The future of publisher advertising is not bigger audiences - it’s better audience proof, engagement and visibility. Advertisers still want targeting. They still want to reach decision-makers, specialist buyers, policy audiences, industry professionals, wealthy consumers, technical teams, regional markets and niche communities. But the way publishers prove that audience has changed. The market is moving away from easy yet creepy and questionable third-party tracking1 and toward privacy-by-design measurement. IAB’s 2024 State of Data report found that 95% of advertising and data decision-makers at brands, agencies and publishers expected continued signal loss and privacy legislation. About 90% of ad buyers were also changing personalisation tactics because of privacy constraints and signal loss.