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Sephora Data-Privacy Penalties Sound Alarm for Marketers

PRSay

Marketers are taking notice of California’s data-privacy laws after cosmetics retailer Sephora agreed last month to pay $1.2 million in penalties for alleged violations involving its targeted-advertising practices. For further reading: Using Data Ethically to Inform PR Strategies ( Strategies & Tactics , September 2022).

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Goodbye Third-Party Cookies, Hello Content Marketing

Contently - Strategy

The company first announced the move in February 2020—only to postpone the implementation timeline every year since. They’re one of the main avenues by which advertisers build personalized profiles about potential customers. Google has reportedly been rolling out this shift for years.

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Google’s Cookie Ban May Put a Brighter Spotlight on Original Content

Contently - Strategy

In early March 2021, Google announced plans to phase out third-party cookies by 2022, sending the targeted advertising industry into a tailspin. While the long-term impacts of the move remain to be seen, one likely change is that content will play an even more important role for brands and advertisers trying to reach customers online. “If

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Hopes, Dreams and Sage Advice: 40+ Marketing and PR predictions for 2023

Sword and the Script

There are ethical and practical issues around it, but it’s a breakthrough that’s all the more impressive given the expectation of an improved, next-gen model next year. A reset on advertising spend. PR adopts AI as a research and content tool. However, growth in global ad spend is expected to slow to about 5.9%

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Will humans have to re-write AI’s draft of history? 42 marketing and communications predictions for 2024

Sword and the Script

Traditional journalists and publishers still chafe at such practices, but as the economics of publishing become ever more challenging, particularly for niche industry trade publications, editors will increasingly turn to this practice in order to attract advertisers and pay the bills.” ~ Tom Pick , Digital Marketing Consultant, Webbiquity LLC 12.

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Press Release Horror Stories: 5 Lessons Learned from Epic PR Fails

Newsfile

Boeing’s 737 Max Crisis (2019-2020) : Boeing faced a major public relations crisis after two crashes involving its 737 Max aircrafts in 2018 and 2019. Facebook’s Data Privacy Concerns (2015-2021) : Facebook’s first impactful data privacy concerns started in 2015 during the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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Archie’s first podcast: Meghan and Harry feature 19-month-old son in star-studded first Spotify episode and coax him into wishing listeners a Happy New Year in his American accent

Mark My Words

Harry and Meghan, who have fiercely defended Archie’s privacy since his birth in May 2019 and filed a lawsuit this year to fight to protect it, encourage their son to talk into the microphone, with Harry telling him: ‘You can speak into it.’ ’ Meghan also asks: ‘Archie, is it fun?

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