Onetrust

OneTrust is primarily known as a consent management platform, letting you easily handle the endless cookie compliance hurdles that come from different regulations around the world. If you’ve got a website serving users across Europe, the US, or elsewhere, you can spin up region-specific rules so you’re only firing the analytics and marketing tags you’re actually allowed to.

Privacy

We know this platform is in the spotlight, but the cameras haven’t quite rolled on our official review just yet. We’ve caught glimpses of its feature set—enough to recognize how it might fit into a marketing tech stack—but rather than improvising a shaky first impression, we prefer to spend time doing a thorough review—no early teasers that miss the mark.

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If you’re already working with this platform or just considering it, we’re happy to share initial thoughts from similar tools we’ve tested and help you decide if it’s ready for a supporting role or a leading part.

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Founder's Take

"OneTrust has been really handy for teams trying to wrangle cookie consent without reinventing the wheel. It slides in pretty smoothly on top of an existing site, giving you a central place to manage those global privacy rules like GDPR and CCPA. It’s not magic—there can be some hiccups with configuration and integrating it across all your systems. But overall, it’s a straightforward platform if you need your marketing pixels and analytics to play by the rules."

Robbie Ashton

Founder, Curve Marketing

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OneTrust is primarily known as a consent management platform, letting you easily handle the endless cookie compliance hurdles that come from different regulations around the world. If you’ve got a website serving users across Europe, the US, or elsewhere, you can spin up region-specific rules so you’re only firing the analytics and marketing tags you’re actually allowed to. It’s basically like a traffic controller for all your tags: you set up categories such as “Advertising” or “Analytics,” and OneTrust turns those categories on or off based on what the user decides. Most marketing teams like it because the install feels relatively lightweight, with a snippet that lives on your site and integrates well with Google Tag Manager. Another perk is you can customize your cookie banner and overall user experience to match your brand (and your legal team’s requests), so you’re not stuck with a clunky pop-up that freaks visitors out. You’ll also find some advanced features like detailed audit reporting and tracking user preferences across sessions, but in my experience, those are more for the company lawyers than the marketers. Still, even if you only tap into the basics—like letting users opt in or out of different cookie categories—you can keep your site running with minimal fuss, and maintain a compliant marketing setup that doesn’t hamper your data collection any more than it has to.

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