Online shopping: the future will be cookieless

 

You must have heard of this by now. The future of the internet will be ‘cookieless’. This will be the case by 2022. What will this involve for online shopping websites? Let’s find out.

For quite a long time, third party cookies have been a staple in the industry of digital advertising and analytics. However, it seems that that many of the world’s leading web browsers such as Safari, Chrome and Firefox are going to eliminate these. As such, e-commerce experts are having to rethink how they are going to design their marketing strategies. For instance, they will experience challenges when it comes to ad targeting, measurement and cross-channel attribution over the next 12 months.

Firms such as Facebook and Google have built such successful businesses by collecting user data. They have generated billions in profit. However, while this allowed firms to deliver relevant ads to consumers, we have witnessed an erosion of trust among online shoppers. 76% of clients have advanced that they are more concerned than ever about privacy when browsing for products on the Web. Moreover, 49% of industry professionals listed cookie deprecation as their top media challenge in 2021.

Keep following this blog to find out how the world of e-commerce will be impacted by this.


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