The deprecation of the third-party cookie in Chrome will be significantly disruptive for publishers that monetize their sites with advertising. Here’s how web publishers are preparing for a future without third-party cookies.

When we spoke with experts in publisher ad monetization in January, most of them expected the field of identity solutions to narrow over the coming year as adoption continues, but they felt it was unlikely that a single identifier alone would replace third-party cookies.

Here’s how publishers are developing and expanding their ecommerce monetization strategies, and how brands and retailers can partner with them to drive purchases in the affiliate channel.

With Chrome set to deprecate its third-party cookies by 2023, publishers’ digital ad revenues will likely suffer even more. But it’s not all bad for the publisher: USA Today’s subscription offering enters the market at a time when readers are willing to pay for news.

The US programmatic digital display market started 2020 off strong, but everything changed in late March when the pandemic put many advertisers on pause. Freestar CEO Kurt Donnell joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss the publisher monetization partner's experience of pandemic volatility and the K-shaped recovery of ad spending.

Ad blocking and avoidance have their most immediate effects on publishers that miss out on ad revenues they would otherwise have received from serving content to ad blocking users. Ad avoidance is just one of the reasons the average non-walled-garden publisher is struggling with ad-based monetization, and alternative revenue strategies have been gaining importance in recent years.

eMarketer was pleased to moderate a Tech-Talk Webinar presentation featuring Steve Bagdasarian, assistant vice president and general manager of media platforms and monetization at Publishers Clearing House Media. He discussed the state of performance-based advertising, and why marketers need credible alternatives to their current customer acquisition and lead generation solutions.

Digital media revolutionized advertisers’ targeting capabilities. But regulatory and commercial updates are changing how advertisers can find and reach audiences in digital media. Read on to understand how the ecosystem is dealing with ad targeting trends in 2021.

What this means: These moves come as Twitter needs to find ways to bring in more revenues, particularly as advertising is proving to be a challenge. According to our forecasts, Twitter will bring in $47.37 in ad revenues per US monthly active user in 2022; for Facebook, that figure will be 565% higher at $314.83.

On today's episode, we discuss Spotify's Q2 performance, what to make of its ad revenue growth, and how its podcast investments are getting on. We then talk about where Amazon wants to take Alexa, social audio's monetization issue, and the significance of the NBA and iHeartMedia podcast partnership. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer senior forecasting analyst at Insider Intelligence Peter Vahle.

That will give it 23.7% of the worldwide digital ad market. Google is No. 1 with a 28.6% share.

Consumers are frustrated by intrusive or invasive ad experiences, and they’re concerned about how advertisers use their data. Here’s how consumers perceive their ad experiences across media channels, how they avoid ads, and how brands, advertisers, and publishers are responding.

According to our July 2021 forecast, 2023 will be a pivotal year for the US B2B digital ad market: Display will overtake search, mobile will surpass nonmobile, and the split between digital and traditional will near a tipping point just beyond our forecast period.

On today's episode, we discuss why digital subscription growth is slowing, what's happening to publishers' digital ad revenues, and where their non-ad, non-subscription revenues are coming from. We then talk about how ads around print and digital news perform, whether targeting gets too much credit, and Nielsen's plans to cut ties with third-party cookies. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer senior analyst at Insider Intelligence Audrey Schomer.

Affiliate, or partner marketing, has become more important to both advertisers looking to drive actions and publishers trying to diversify revenue streams. Adam Ross, CEO at affiliate marketing firm Awin, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss how the market has evolved over the past two years, why practitioners are looking for more standardization, and how advertisers and publishers are working together.

Google’s Chrome Team stress-tested the digital ad world by announcing in early 2020 that the browser—the world’s most popular—would deprecate third-party cookies within two years. Vendors, publishers, agencies, and advertisers scrambled to understand what would take cookies’ place, and how they would identify and target their audiences without them. Google’s announcement in June 2021 that cookie deprecation would be delayed by almost two years has given marketers and their partners more time to test and integrate new solutions—but also a longer period of uncertainty.

A year of CCPA: California provided examples of how it's been enforcing the CCPA over the last year—but publishers and marketers might not like how strictly it's upholding the privacy standards.

Taboola buys Connexity: The merger will help Taboola's publisher clients tap into ecommerce dollars while also helping Connexity's retail clients diversify away from Amazon.

eMarketer was pleased to moderate a Tech-Talk Webinar featuring Conviva’s Alex Klausner, senior product marketing manager, Entertainment Studios’ Jeff Quandt, vice president, revenue partnerships, and Univision Communications’ Phil Lalonde, senior vice president, sales operations. They shared how publishers can continue to grow and attract new viewers and advertisers—plus take on an increasingly crowded market, by strategically leveraging first-party data.

As advertisers have cut down on how many demand-side platforms (DSPs) they work with, publishers have increased the number of their supply-side platform (SSP) partners. Lauren T. Fisher, executive vice president of business intelligence at research firm Advertiser Perceptions, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss the company's latest wave of SSP research, why identity resolution is important, and what to expect now that cookie deprecation in Chrome has been delayed.

The feed features content from creators, curated Stories, and publisher content, and users will be able to submit their own content.

The hype around ad blocking may have died down, but plenty of internet users are still taking steps to avoid ads. Marty Krátky-Katz, co-founder and CEO at ad block revenue recovery firm Blockthrough, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss why some internet users block ads, what types of ad experiences are considered the most annoying, and how publishers' approach to monetizing ad blocking users has changed over the years.