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How Google’s cookies changes could affect your charity

Google recently postponed its cookies phase-out Google initially announced it would phase out third-party cookies on Google Chrome in 2022. They have now postponed that to 2023. Privacy Sandbox will replace cookies When they eventually phase out third-party cookies, Google says it will replace them with its Privacy Sandbox system. 

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The three types of digital fundraising campaign

Online advertising is a huge part of digital fundraising. Whether it’s Google Ad Grants, Facebook Ads or display advertising, paid ads have a big part to play. When planning your digital fundraising campaigns, it’s easy to assume that it’s not digital fundraising if you aren’t asking for money. It’s also

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War Child UK appoints Platypus as its search agency

We’re really pleased to say that War Child UK has appointed Platypus Digital as its new paid search and display agency. What does War Child UK do? War Child UK is a hugely important charity. They work in countries at war to protect, educate and support children affected by the

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Our staff donated £1,000 each to these charities

Every year, everyone in our team gets to nominate a charity for Platypus to donate £1,000 to. They can also split the donation between two charities. We do this as part of our commitment to the charity sector, and also as a benefit for the team who work hard for

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How fair is your recruitment?

At Platypus, we want to be as fair as possible when recruiting new team members.  We have written previously about our anonymous recruitment process in our efforts to remove some of the bias from our hiring. We recently met with other agencies working in the charity sector to share ideas

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The Platypus Digital values and how we created them

What are values? Values for your place of work are the guiding principles that are most important to you and help you make decisions about the way that you work.  Say an organisation had a value that was ‘The client comes first’. In theory, that means staff should make decisions

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