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  • Grow

    Grow’s New and Improved Search Experience

    Back to Blog • Well hello there friends! It’s been a while but we are back with another amazing feature update. At this point, I think we are past the “get to know you stage” when it comes to Grow and can jump right into the exciting announcement. Get ready for an all new way…

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    Grow

    Introducing Exclusive Content with Grow

    Back to Blog • Welcome to another installment of “Here is a new amazing Grow feature!” I’m your host, Product Manager Sam Seeley, here with some awesome news. Today we’re launching our Exclusive Content feature for Grow! Exclusive Content is an exciting addition because we’re paving the way for the latest internet experience, one that…

  • Grow

    Co-Branded Sign-Up For Grow

    Back to Blog • Hey Grow users! How does an increase in signups sound? We’re here to announce another Grow enhancement that can bring you just that: our Co-Branded Sign-Up feature! We hope (after reading this post) that you’re just as excited as we are and you go straight to your Grow settings to enable…

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    Grow

    Grow Power Pack: The Subscribe Feature Levels Up

    Back to Blog • Publishers are already experiencing a lot of success with Grow’s Spotlight Subscribe, which has been awesome to see. Newsletters are growing, websites are faster and (hopefully) pop-ups are being removed. With our recent Zapier integration, we answered a common publisher request for automation, connecting Grow Subscribe to hundreds of different Email…

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    Grow

    What’s Next for Grow: New Look, High Performance Mobile Recommendations

    Back to Blog • Mediavine is always excited to tell publishers What’s Next for Grow … literally in this case. One of our most popular Recommended Content features, the Mobile Carousel, is getting a facelift – and a performance boost along with it. I hope you’re sitting down for this, because we’re about to blow…

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    Grow

    Grow Product Tour: Teaching Readers Why They Need This

    Back to Blog • We’ve noticed a trend. Publishers, advertisers, readers and even Mediavine staff members are all asking the time-honored question of 2021: What is Grow? Even for those of us who live and breathe Mediavine, it’s challenging to digest all the things Grow can do for publishers, let alone why readers should embrace…

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    Advertising

    Privacy Sandbox: Revised Timeline Released By Google

    Back to Blog • As we shared earlier this summer, Google delayed its roadmap for phasing out support for third-party cookies, moving its own timeline back by nearly two years. Google shifted Chrome’s plan to deprecate third-party cookies because, to make a long story short, we need additional time as an industry to get it…

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    Grow

    Grow Recommended Content Exclusion Search Now Available

    Back to Blog • If you’re running Grow — and if you’re not, we’re telling you, you’re missing out — then you’re likely familiar with its awesome Recommended Content feature. Recommended, or personalized, content provides users with a superior browsing experience, encouraging them to authenticate and consent to personalized ads. Grow widgets will display content…

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    Mediavine Earns Digiday Nomination For Best First-Party Data Strategy

    Back to Blog • With the end of third-party cookies looming, it’s no secret that the industry is betting big on first-party data as the premiere solution. As such, it’s no surprise that one of the top industry publications, Digiday, has added a Best First-Party Data Strategy category to its annual awards. Today, we’re excited…

  • Grow

    Grow and First-Party Data: Everything You Need to Know

    Back to Blog • By now, this should be a familiar refrain: Third-party cookies are going away, and taking with them most of our industry’s ability to personalize ads and measure performance. The million dollar question: What do we do about it? In preparation for a world without third-party cookies, Google and other industry players…

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    Grow

    Grow: Introducing Subscribe and the Spotlight Widget

    Back to Blog • One day in the not-too-distant future, we won’t need to preface every blog post with this news, but today is not that day. Soon, third-party cookies are going away. Chrome, the last remaining browser to support them, is phasing out third-party cookies entirely starting later in 2023. We’ve discussed at length…

  • Advertising

    Google Doubles Down on Privacy Sandbox and First-Party Data. That’s a Good Thing.

    Back to Blog • Recently, the Google Ads team sent shockwaves through the digital advertising world with a blog post about the privacy-first web. While it contained some interesting thoughts on the new ecosystem we’re all trying to usher in, the article is actually not a huge deal. Below, we’ll talk about why much of…