Maybe not literally a drone in the stack, but there are a couple of good reasons marketers in some verticals might be able to drive value from the low-flying objects. For one thing, drones can capture real-time foot traffic at locations of interest, and deliver images which help define the traffic in demographic terms. That can help refine campaigns targeting that traffic in those neighborhoods.

Secondly, drone images can help with product display. Commercial and luxury real estate agencies have known this for a while, but it’s becoming evident that drone images have their uses for architecture and engineering firms, as well as landscaping and agriculture companies, and many more.

Another popular use of aerial imagery is by creating what Birds Eye Aerial Drones call a ‘living logo.’ A proprietary term used by Birds Eye Aerial Drones, a living logo is when employees of a company wear specific colored t-shirts to match the company’s logo and an aerial image is taken for marketing purposes.

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This January Google announced the end of support for third-party cookies in Chrome by 2022. Simultaneously, the company promoted its “Privacy Sandbox” initiative, as an industry collaboration to develop new privacy friendly methods of audience targeting that don’t rely on unique IDs or individual cross-site tracking, and offer personalization with anonymity.

As a significant step, Google last week released the findings of a preliminary study testing use of audience cohorts — people with similar browsing histories and interests who might be targeted collectively rather than individually. Based on its Federated Learning of Cohorts API, Google was able to show that targeting interest-based cohorts would perform significantly better than random user groupings. 

Chetna Bindra, Google Senior Product Manager, User Trust and Privacy, said the big takeaway for marketers is that the study “does show early proof of concept, that it is possible to deliver both personalization and privacy” in a post-cookie world. She added that considerable work remains to be done by Google and others in the industry before something like this could be brought to market.

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