May 27, 2021

What does the death of the third-party cookie mean for e-commerce?

The elimination of the third-party cookie will profoundly impact e-commerce. Happy Cog’s Lee Goldberg says that instead of viewing this scenario as dire, ecommerce players should view this inflection point in data-driven marketing as an opportunity to rethink it all.

The elimination of the third-party cookie will profoundly impact e-commerce. This shouldn’t be a shock. We were headed down this path long before Google announced that it would deprecate the cookie in Chrome in 2022. Perhaps more than any arrow in the marketer’s quiver, e-commerce’s targeting accuracy has traditionally been built around the cookie. However, Happy Cog’s Lee Goldberg says instead of viewing this scenario as dire, e-commerce players should view this inflection point in data-driven marketing as an opportunity to rethink it all.

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