How Publishers Can Take Back Control of Their Consumer Data

You've built and furnished a home. You regularly tweak and maintain the property so your equity grows. But when you're away, strangers gain access. They sell your appliances, plumbing fixtures and furniture and when you return, it's clear the value you've worked so hard to attain has evaporated.Digital publishers are similarly compromised by third parties (Google, Facebook, advertising vendors, social media widget providers and others) that take, use and monetize the customer data the publishers generate. And it's precisely that behind-the-scenes access to customer data that causes its value to diminish and threatens publisher profitability.Many publishers remain in the dark about whether third parties obtain their data, and whether they monetize it. A "Publishing Profitability Survey" of nearly 400 U.S. publishing executives showed 78% of them don't know if third parties access their data and whether or how they are monetizing it. But whether they understand or not, it's happening virtually everywhere. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

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