Buzzfeed Integrates Yahoo’s Alternative To Third-Party Cookies

The second phase of Yahoo and BuzzFeed’s strategic relationship was unveiled recently. This phase focuses on expanding addressable audience pools, which will provide advertisers with the scale they need as the usage of third-party cookies decreases, resulting in more programmatic advertising revenue. 

Advertisers that use Yahoo’s supply-side platform will get priority access to BuzzFeed’s network of sites, which includes BuzzFeed News, Tasty, HuffPost, and others. 

According to Iván Markman, Yahoo’s chief business officer, BuzzFeed will integrate Yahoo’s identity tech products, ConnectID, and Next-Gen Solutions, combining its first-party data with Yahoo’s to generate an addressable audience of over 148 million individuals.

Markman added – 

“We need to have solutions for publishers with first-party data and those without first-party data. And because we treasure our consumers, in order to do that we need to have a community garden, as opposed to a walled garden, where we partner with like-minded publishers to help all of us grow.”

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The agreement will assist both publishers to expand their advertising and data functionality, as well as boost audience scale, ahead of the looming deprecation of third-party cookies.

According to Ken Blom, SVP of ad strategy and partnerships at BuzzFeed, by giving preferential programmatic access to advertisers leveraging Yahoo’s SSP, BuzzFeed intends to enhance demand for its inventory and create greater ad revenues.

Preferred access allows BuzzFeed to establish arrangements with advertisers that use the platform ahead of time, such as ensuring them access to certain audience groups. This ensures that advertisers achieve their goals at scale, while BuzzFeed has access to the most diverse demand conceivable.

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