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Colossus Media

Colossus Media

Digital advertising and media company specializing in premium digital content monetization. Colossus Media scripts participate in header bidding auctions and serve targeted display ad units to multicultural and diverse audiences.

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Overview

Colossus Media is a digital advertising company specializing in premium content monetization. Scripts participate in header bidding auctions and serve targeted display ads to multicultural and diverse audiences.

What This Script Does

Colossus Media scripts integrate with header bidding wrappers (such as Prebid.js) to submit bid requests for ad inventory on publisher pages. The scripts set cookies for user identification, frequency capping, and audience targeting. Ad creatives are rendered in designated ad slots after winning auction bids. Cross-site tracking is used to build audience profiles for targeting purposes.

Consent & Compliance

  • Consent Category: Marketing
  • Applicable Regulations: GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, CCPA
  • Opt-in Required: Yes, under GDPR and ePrivacy for advertising cookies and cross-site tracking

Programmatic advertising with audience targeting requires explicit consent for cookie placement and behavioral profiling. Under CCPA, sharing user data through bid requests may qualify as a "sale" of personal information.

Should You Block This Without Consent?

Yes. Colossus Media scripts serve targeted advertising through programmatic auctions. This is marketing-purpose processing that requires consent. Block until marketing consent is granted.

Is Colossus Media GDPR compliant?

Colossus Media typically loads marketing trackers, which are not strictly necessary for your site to work. Under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, non-essential cookies and trackers must stay blocked until a visitor gives clear opt-in consent. So Colossus Media can be fully GDPR compliant, but only if your site holds its scripts until consent is granted and lets visitors decline just as easily. Compliance depends on how your site loads Colossus Media, not on Colossus Media itself.

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Consent Categories

Marketing

Also Known As

Colossus Mediamulticultural advertisingheader biddingprogrammatic displayaudience targetingpublisher monetization

Tracked Domains (1)

Colossus Media's trackers are occasionally seen, seen on under 1% of the sites ConsentStack has scanned. Scan your own site to see which of these are firing before consent.

colossusssp.comMarketing

colossusssp.com is a marketing domain operated by Colossus Media, used to serve ads, build audiences, and measure ad conversions. Seen on under 1% of scanned sites.

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