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Throtle, SOC 2, and HIPAA: Ensuring Trust and Compliance in Healthcare Identity
In today's digital age where data is the lifeblood of industries and businesses, maintaining the highest standards of privacy and security is paramount, especially in the healthcare industry.

The Power of Data Pixels for Healthcare
You’ve might not have ever seen a data pixel, but they’ve almost definitely been part of your online browsing before. Data pixels are essential when you’re thinking about campaign planning, targeting, and optimization.

Throtle's Expertise in Aligning with NAI's Latest Healthcare Advertising Best Practices
In the evolving landscape of digital advertising, particularly in the healthcare space, staying ahead of the curve in terms of compliance and best practices is not just an advantage – it's a necessity.

Google's IP Protection Announcement
As a forward-looking entity in the realm of data and privacy, Throtle is committed to ensuring our clients and partners stay informed about industry shifts and evolutions that could affect their operations. After the recent disclosure from Google in regard to IP Protection, Throtle provides perspective on the current status of the project.

Cookies Will Be Gone… Sooner Than You Think
Without cookies, you will need to utilize alternative IDs. Not just one, but many. And the identity resolution process connects multiple IDs together enabling a greater chance to identify each individual.

Where Omnichannel Strategy Meets Compliance in Healthcare Marketing
Omnichannel marketing holds significant promise for improving healthcare marketing and driving superior outcomes. But how can omnichannel live along with its compliance counterpart? Throtle has carefully crafted solutions to support the complex requirements of omnichannel strategy.

Omnichannel + AI: Emerging Discussions at Digital Pharma East 2023
The Digital Pharma East event recently concluded, and for many professionals in the pharmaceutical marketing sector, it was nothing short of engaging. With its comprehensive discussions and seminars, attendees were offered a deep dive into current issues and advancements in the healthcare space.

13 Critical Points About Sensitive Conditions Data
This post aims to educate readers on the key steps involved in managing sensitive health data and why it’s crucial to have qualified data professionals overseeing the process.

The Trade Desk’s Kokai: Throtle’s Perspective on Adtech Advancements in Healthcare
The adtech industry is abuzz with the announcement of The Trade Desk’s new product, Kokai. It promises to revolutionize the world of digital advertising when it launches in July 2023.

Crosswalking 101: What it is and why you should be utilizing it
Crosswalking is like the Rosetta Stone of data, allowing marketers and data owners to harness the power of a consumer identity graph without possessing one. It takes advantage of multiple individual and household level match keys present in an identity graph and maps the equivalent fields across various datasets.

How Identity Solves the Healthcare Marketer’s Toughest Challenge
Advertising plays a key role in bringing these two constituents together, but that begs the question: how can marketers target the right consumer with the right message in a fully privacy-compliant way?

12 Questions Every Brand Should Ask an Identity Graph Provider
The looming deprecation of the third-party tracking cookie has many CMOs and CDOs scrambling for solutions that will allow them to reach and engage their customers going forward. Consumer ID graphs are widely seen as a great solution for a number of reasons, but they do raise some challenges.

Google pushes back deadline for killing off tracking cookies until 2024
The latest delay is intended to allow more time for advertisers, publishers, and other members of the online ad industry to begin formal testing of the new cookieless technologies proposed in Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” initiative, those sources said.

Consumer Identity Graphs are Not the Same as Marketing Databases
These days everyone says they have a consumer ID graph. In this article, the author suggests 26 of the best graphs available. If it feels like everyone is jumping in on the identity graph game, it’s because they are.

Top reasons you should be re-onboarding your data
Data onboarding is not a new topic. It has been a marketing concept that has been used by brands and companies that want to find and target customers in an online environment across multiple devices and channels.

The Importance of Fresh Data: Why re-onboarding data can increase campaign performance.
Re-onboarding ensures the most accurate view of a customer. Because consumer data is so dynamic, CRM databases are only up to date for a brief period of time. Once a customer changes their preference of brands, device, or even updates their email, what was once current information becomes dated and effectively incorrect.

How and why to embrace the future of advanced TV
With on-demand and streaming services churning out content to keep up with binge culture, advertisers are looking to shift budgets away from linear television and toward this accelerated streaming method. Brands know they can’t target consumers like they did back when there were only three major television networks.

Identity Questions Answered
For marketers and brands looking for an identity provider, we have gathered information on what you need to know and what you need to ask your potential identity provider.

Why Your Identity Strategy Needs A Refresh
Everyone is talking about, planning for and providing guidelines, rules, and industry ‘do’s and don’ts’ surrounding consumer data. In this article, we set out to provide actionable information to help you strengthen your consumer information and understand the importance identity plays within your CRM file.

Why Cookieless IDs Need Full Adoption and an Identity Layer
Identity is not a nice to have – it’s a must have. Providers are touting “cookieless” tracking capabilities as the next generation of “identity” by using authenticated hashed emails, but are they?