Walled Garden vs. Open Web

The walled garden ecosystem is growing rapidly as big players such as Amazon anf Facebook erect walls to protect their data and assets. Walled garden are disruptive to the future of data-driven advertising because they block the gathering of data from any outside advertisers.

For publishers and marketers to survive this large-scale shift of content to closed ecosystems, companies need to improve their first-party data and bolster their direct relationships with consumers instead of relying on platforms such as Google and Facebook to connect them.