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Exploring Successful Marketing Without the Aid of Cookies<\/h2>\n

Cookies, that well loved snack that seems to disappear very quickly after knowledge of its existence, don’t we all love them? Oh, sorry, we got sidetracked there, didn’t we? No, the cookies we are talking about today are third-party cookies, those of the tracking variety that help websites and apps track your activity from site to site and help provide you with personalized ads based on the websites you have visited and searches you made on Google. They are also one of the contributors to the detailed results we see within analytics. They also, of course, enable your browser to run that bit slower if you don’t clear them out occasionally, the joys. Well, imagine a future without third-party cookies; what would we do? Now, as your typical internet user, you are probably not going to miss them unless you are really fond of personalized ads. However, as a business, it’s a bit of a scary prospect. To conduct marketing campaigns<\/a>\u00a0in an efficient manner, we need to track their effectiveness, and how do we do that? That’s right, you guessed it, with Cookies.<\/p>\n

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“But that would never happen,” I hear you say. “Cookies will always be around, as certain as death and taxes.” I’m afraid you are very wrong. With privacy at the forefront of everyone’s mind lately, it really brings about the idea that things need to change. And who better to change them than one of the biggest companies in our digital world \u2013 Google!<\/p>\n

Yes, Google wants to phase out third-party cookies entirely by 2025.<\/p>\n

That leaves us with the daunting question how do we cope with this change in the marketing world? How do we transition into a cookie-less future? In what new ways would we track our marketing activities and personalize our ads? Well, that is exactly what we are going to cover in this article so read on!<\/p>\n

We do sure hope they keep normal cookies, though! Oh, sorry, we are getting sidetracked again. Let’s continue.<\/p>\n

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Google’s Post Cookie initiative<\/h4>\n

As Google itself is leaving us bereft of third-party cookies, you would expect them to come up with some alternative solution to data gathering and ad targeting. Well, that is exactly what they are doing. Google is providing the world with a more secure solution in the form of a few different tools coming together to form the Privacy Sandbox<\/a>. Privacy Sandbox has three main aims.<\/p>\n