News

What Does A Cookieless World Mean For eCommerce brands?

What is “a cookieless world”? Cookies from third parties are used to track a user’s online activities in an anonymous manner. Because of this, marketers can design carefully tailored programs and precisely gauge their effectiveness. Cookies are really helpful for marketers, but they make customers more concerned about their privacy. For this reason, third-party cookie usage is no longer available in browsers like Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari. And Google will also discontinue assisting third-party cookies sometime in 2022. Google plans to put more of an emphasis on “privacy-preserving” technology. This signals the end of the data-driven, highly targeted performance advertising that advertisers have established over the previous two decades.

A cookieless world for eCommerce?

The quantity and quality of the data available to advertisers will decline after third-party cookies are no longer available. Many eCommerce brands, retailers, and marketplaces rely on retargeting. Both the cost of acquiring new customers and the return on advertising investment will rise as a result. However, businesses may adapt to this new reality by utilizing a wider variety of data sources and looking into other technologies.

Wouter Maatman

Digital Marketing Manager at Icecat N.V.

Recent Posts

Partner-Specific Galleries and Smarter Product Discovery: Icecat Release Notes 258

Release 258 gives brands more control over how their product imagery reaches each partner and…

12 hours ago

Google Adds UCP Checkout Support to Merchant API as Agentic Commerce Develops

Google is expanding the infrastructure behind agentic commerce, adding support for Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)…

12 hours ago

Icecat PIM Release 3.17.0: Summary Card & PIM AI Search

Icecat PIM 3.17.0 is here and a more exciting 3.18.0 is on its way! This…

1 day ago

Apple Unveils Its First Foldable iPhone as AI Moves Deeper Into Its Devices

Apple has introduced its first foldable smartphone, marking one of the biggest changes to the…

2 days ago

Volkswagen Faces Its Biggest Competitive Test Yet as Chinese Carmakers Advance

Volkswagen is preparing for the largest restructuring in its 89-year history as Europe's biggest carmaker…

3 days ago

Nvidia Acquires Hugging Face for Nearly $13 Billion in Major Bet on Open AI

Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, making one of its…

4 days ago