By now, you’ve probably received at least one email from a company asking you to confirm that you really do want to receive marketing emails. These repermissioning campaigns are an attempt to bring consent up to the standard set by the GDPR, ahead of the regulation’s enforcement on 25th May 2018. In this article, I’m […]
The long-term effects of Facebook’s ongoing data abuse crisis are still unclear, but one of the most popular and powerful tools Facebook offers marketers could be changing as a result.
According to reports that have since been confirmed by Facebook, the social media giant is planning to require that marketers using Custom Audiences certify to Facebook that they have obtained consent from the individuals whose data they provide to Facebook.
People will unsubscribe from your email list – maybe 25% or more – accept it. Don’t fight it. If they want to leave, it’s probably your fault.
The penalties for making it hard to unsubscribe include damaging customer relations and brand reputation, getting reported to the authorities, receiving fines, but most likely and perhaps most dangerous of all – being marked as SPAM (unsolicited mail) by recipients.
The cookie law. Wasn’t that a car crash?
Ugly banners stuck on top of beautiful designs, obscuring functionality and doing nothing for anybody except forcing a pointless click to get it out the way and get busy living.
Whose fault was that?
Just before we reached the EU cookie law ‘deadline’ on May 26, the ICO issued updated guidance for compliance, which expanded on the notion of implied consent.
This was met with anger by some who saw this as a last minute changing of the goalposts, so I caught up with the ICO’s Dave Evans to ask about this.
He also talks about how the Information Commissioner will judge the ‘success’ of its implementation of the EU e-Privacy directive and why sites should be open with users.
The cookie law deadline arrived on Saturday, and we haven’t quite seen the pop-up apocalypse that some had predicted.
This may have had something to do with the ICO’s last-minute revision of its guidance, but its more likely that many simply aren’t prepared to risk harming their business models when it’s unclear how the law will be enforced.
While news websites like the BBC and Mirror have added some sort of status bar or pop-up, retailers have taken a different approach to compliance.
(I’m certainly not looking to ‘out’ websites here, so I’ll be looking only at those which have taken some action).
With the deadline for compliance with the EU e-Privacy Directive just two days away, we’ve rounded up some of the key stats in an infographic.
This embeddable infographic looks at marketers’ and consumers’ views of the EU cookie law, and our five-step plan for compliance.
This is a topic we’ve covered in detail, so I’ve also rounded up some of our recent articles and other resources on the EU cookie law.
With just a few days left before the ICO begins to enforce the EU e-Privacy Directive, we are starting to see a few sites unveiling their approaches to compliance.
Two such sites are FT.com and Mirror Online, which are both using pop-ups to alert visitors to the sites’ use of cookies.
As well as taking a look at the two news sites’ responses to the EU directive, I’ve been asking Malcolm Coles, Product Director, digital at Trinity Mirror Group, about the Mirror’s approach.
The deadline for the e-Privacy Directive is fast approaching. While the subject has generated significant attention across Europe, the word ‘cookie’ continues to dominate the headlines.
In fact, the part of the Directive that applies to cookies is written more broadly and requires consent for non-essential tracking, regardless of whether a cookie is involved.
In this article, I’ll review the facts behind the ‘cookie law’ and lift the lid on what consent really means for UK businesses.
The EU e-Privacy Directive and subsequent ICO guidance is complicated and confusing enough when you look at desktop sites alone, but then there’s the question of how it translates to mobile.
To recap: the ‘cookie law’ covers the use by businesses of information stored on users’ ‘terminal equipment’ and this covers mobile sites and apps as well as desktop sites.
In a new white paper, Mark Brill from the DMA has bravely attempted to untangle some of the issues around mobile and the cookie law.
I’ve looked at some of the recommendations from the report, and the threat that the e-Privacy Directive poses to mobile marketing and m-commerce…
While around a third of retailers will use pop-ups to request consent for cookies, the vast majority will not make cookie consent compulsory.
These stats come from a survey of 100 retailers with revenues of £3m p.a. or more, conducted on behalf of Eccomplished.
The figures suggest there is much confusion amongst retailers over how to comply with the e-Privacy Directive, also shown in our previous survey of internet marketers.
The EU ‘cookie law’ is clearly a threat to online business in the UK, whether through higher bounce rates caused by intrusive cookie opt-ins, or loss of income if customers opt out of third party cookies used for remarketing and ad targeting.
Some have estimated that it will cost the UK economy £10bn in a worst case scenario, but this is just guesswork at the moment.
I asked some of the expert contributors to our EU Cookie Law: A guide to compliance report how the EU E-privacy directive will affect their business, and if it’s possible to comply without affecting usability.