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This edition of the Cookieless Newsroom highlights regulatory positions on Google’s revised approach to Chrome third-party cookie depreciation, outlines planned improvements to the Privacy Sandbox, and reviews the high-profile trial between Google and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), which has drawn significant attention across the adtech industry.

2023 has been a year of big changes for marketers. Artificial Intelligence tools like ChatGPT have transformed how many of us do our jobs, third-party cookies are on the cusp of being retired, and consumers have become more privacy-conscious than ever before. Despite the enormity of these changes, in many ways they’ve just set the scene for the big things to come in 2024. To understand what’s going on, we’ll briefly review MarTech trends in 2023, and then dive into the top MarTech trends in 2024.

Six months ago, during IETF 111, Google engineers made it clear that they were approaching a new iteration of FLoC, which was related to site topics. Yesterday, they finally announced Topics API. The ad topics concept has also been explored by Meta engineers in their Ad Topic Hints proposal, which builds on user feedback to displayed ads. Also, the PAURAQUE proposal from NextRoll was proposed in such a way that users could define topics which are interesting for them and can be used for personalization.

In this Media Review, we describe Google’s announcement on the Single Origin Trial, Google’s Header Bidding, considerations about FLEDGE, and Tim Cook’s call for a federal data privacy law.

In this chapter of our “Media Review” series, we describe the results of the CMA investigation into Google’s Privacy Sandbox, Tech Lab’s release of “Seller Defined Audience” and more.

Google proposed that instead of deprecating third-party cookies for all users in Chrome, they will let users decide whether to allow third-party cookies in the browser. Google also emphasized their continued investment in the Privacy Sandbox to ensure its performance and utility.