Google 3rd-Party Cookie Deprecation [Update] + 5 Best Strategies
Improving traffic quality in a more private world
1. Improving Traffic Quality
In A More Private World
Amy Stamper | Impression
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2. Founded in November 2012, Impression has
grown to be one of the UK’s premier agencies,
working with brands across the globe to drive
higher returns on their digital marketing
investments.
Who we are
5. Situation Analysis
Digital advertising ecosystem is increasingly focusing on user
privacy.
Users are increasingly feeling lack a of visibility into, and control
over, how their data is being used.
Where are we now?
7. User demand
Awareness of how ad data and tracking
works, and desire for more privacy
online
Situation Analysis
8. User demand
Awareness of how ad data and tracking
works, and desire for more privacy
online
News and events
High profile coverage of big tech’s role
in issues like US elections, Brexit
Situation Analysis
9. User demand
Awareness of how ad data and tracking
works, and desire for more privacy
online
News and events
High profile coverage of big tech’s role
in issues like US elections, Brexit
Current legislation
Catching up with tech innovations and
user demands - including GDPR,
CCPA, DPA
Situation Analysis
10. User demand
Awareness of how ad data and tracking
works, and desire for more privacy
online
News and events
High profile coverage of big tech’s role
in issues like US elections, Brexit
Current legislation
Catching up with tech innovations and
user demands - including GDPR,
CCPA, DPA
Perceived future demands and
legislation
Further changes anticipated based on
consumer expectations & regulation
Situation Analysis
11. Situation Analysis
E.g. Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency update / iOS14
Without opt-ins, app publisher doesn’t have permission
to track users - whether through Apple’s Identifier for
Advertisers (IDFA) or any other identifier.
Giving Back Control - Apps
12. Situation Analysis
Not the first significant change in apps
→ Previous iOS versions - opt outs through “limit ad
tracking” option in user settings
→ Android users can already opt out of ad
personalization
Apps
13. Situation Analysis
Apps
Increased user control will drastically change
measurement
→ Over 30% of iOS users chose to opt-out of
tracking in 2020, up 216% since 2016
→ Opt outs getting more common overall but
may be lower among Android users (Singular)
15. What’s actually changing?
Expect significant changes to the Facebook Ads platform in 2021
Facebook has been a vocal opponent to ATT and iOS14 policies.
Facebook Ads
16. What’s actually changing?
Of course, increased user privacy may negatively impact on
Facebook’s powerful advertising system and revenue....
Facebook Ads
18. What’s actually changing?
Reporting limitations
Reduced user breakdowns
Delayed and restricted reports
Shorter attribution windows and defaults
Facebook Ads
19. Targeting limitations
Custom audiences based on website and app
behaviour likely to reduce as more users opt out of
tracking
What’s actually changing?
Facebook Ads
20. Aggregated Events
Max. 8 pixel optimisation Events per domain
Choose order of priority to send events
Statistical modelling for opted-out users
What’s actually changing?
Facebook Ads
21. What’s actually changing?
→ Prospecting efficacy may reduce as
well as retargeting
→ Algorithm will benefit from fewer
data points relating to users’
behaviours on other websites
Facebook Ads
Site 1 Site 2
X
22. Snapchat - quick response - biggest impacts in Custom Audiences
Twitter - slow to respond - biggest impacts in Custom Audiences, Website, App products
Pinterest - slow to respond - biggest impacts in Custom Audiences, Website, App products, Pinterest Tag upgrade
LinkedIn - slow to respond - biggest impacts in Audience Network, all Retargeting Audiences, Conversion tracking
TikTok - slow to respond - biggest impacts in Mobile Measurement Partner solutions, App products
What’s actually changing?
Other social platforms
23. A quick word on
what’s not changing
1st party data
→ Platforms own their
own 1st party data
through PII graphs
On-platform
behaviour
→ Still able to learn
about opted-out
users’ interests and
behaviour
Ad eligibility
→ Still able to serve
ads to users even if
they’ve opted out
of targeted or
personalised ads
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25. Impacts on Paid Social
It wouldn’t be a digital
marketing presentation
without a few caveats...
26. 1. Impacts vary across platform,
vertical, advertiser, audience, time
2. Hard to segment out ATT impact
from lockdowns easing/tightening,
seasonality, campaign changes
Impacts on Paid Social
27. Impacts on Paid Social
UI Changes
Facebook’s UI’s gotten a lot messier.
Account-wide performance information is a
lot harder to come by.
Harder to immediately gauge
account-level performance
28. Impacts on Paid Social
UI Changes
No support for breakdowns.
We knew this one was coming, but it doesn’t make it any easier!
29. Impacts on Paid Social
Measurement changes
FB’s 3 day reporting delay just affects the
app install or web conversion data (e.g.
purchases, revenue, ROAS) - not the
on-platform data (e.g. media spend, CPC,
CPM) which is still real-time.
Very recent data may be skewed.
Reporting lag
30. Impacts on Paid Social
Measurement changes
Where are my modelled conversions? This wasn’t happening as
default for most accounts until 30th June.
31. Impacts on Paid Social
Spend increases
Brands who can afford to do so have increased
spend to maintain consistent target sales
volumes, despite generally higher CPMs and
CPAs. This is further pushing up CPMs, often
impacting smaller advertisers who are being
priced out of their usual auctions.
32. Impacts on Paid Social
Widespread conflicting advice
Adoption of iOS 14.5+ is still
really low [...] The “ATT opt-in
rates” we’re seeing don’t all
mean the same thing, and are
easy to misinterpret.
(Branch.io) the changes rendered by iOS
14.5 have been small in scale
so far.
No IDFA No Problem
Reporting is still a mess
(Mobile User Acquisition Show)
35. Check new Resource Centre tab in Ads manager for personalised prompts
Actions
Recap - bits you’ve already done
36. App advertisers
Actions
Recap - bits you’ve already done
Learn more how to use or upgrade Facebook
SDK, App Events API and Mobile
Measurement Partners as applicable
Web conversion advertisers
Adjust to new attribution windows - compare
windows and download historic data
Claim your domain
Configure eight preferred web conversion
events per domain
Set up Aggregated Events Measurement
Implement server-side tagging - Conversions
API
Checklist
37. Actions
What we’ve found works
Simplify your account structures to give
maximum data density.
* But don’t be afraid to keep testing
Consolidation
Awareness
Interest
Desire
Action
45. Actions
What we’ve found works
Leverage video view and engagement
campaigns at top of funnel
On-Social Signals
46. Actions
What we’ve found works
For *some* lead gen campaigns, switch
to on-social forms
On-Social Signals
47. Actions
What we’ve found works
Creative is still king. Getting this right
will impact your performance much
more than adjusting your audiences.
Creative
48. Actions
What we’ve found works
Don’t wholly rely on testing ‘in the
wild’. Experiment with pairing
specific creatives for
demographics
Creative
49. Actions
What we’ve found works
Take time to understand attribution
(both pre- and post-ATT)
Reporting
50. Actions
What we’ve found works
Don’t rely as much on the UI - build
your own dashboards
Reporting
51. Actions
What we’ve found works
Exclude the most recent 3 days
while evaluating campaign
performance and making changes.
Optimisations
52. Actions
What we’ve found works
Steer clear of knee-jerk reactions -
take a longer term view to be sure of
performance.
Be cautious of changing too often.
Optimisations
53. Actions
What we’ve found works
Adjust your short-term
expectations and be prepared to
refresh KPIs in a post-ATT world*
* this might be painful
Optimisations