Product update: Improved usability
This month, we have made significant updates to our platform, making it easier and more intuitive to use. In the Reports section, you can now filter lists by column for faster, more precise insights. In the Compliance Monitor dashboard, you can mute issues whenever you need to. From your main dashboard, you can now also invite team members directly to enable seamless collaboration. We’ve also streamlined the onboarding process and improved purpose suggestions, making it simpler and quicker to get started.
Microsoft Clarity: Consent Mode Deadline 31 October
From 31 October 2025 onwards, Microsoft will enforce stricter consent signal requirements for page views coming from the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Activating Consent Mode will then become mandatory when using Microsoft Clarity. To avoid data gaps or loss of conversions, website operators must activate Consent Mode and ensure that the correct consent signals are transmitted to Clarity. Microsoft Clarity now supports Google Consent Mode in addition to its own Consent Mode to make things easier for websites. Websites that have activated Google Consent Mode can now use it for Microsoft Clarity too.
Read more here:
https://www.consentmanager.net/en/knowledge/microsoft-clarity-support-gcm/
Consent or pay: Granular consent required
Austria’s Federal Administrative Court has ruled that the ‘consent or pay’ advertising model, which forces users to either accept tracking or pay for access to content, is not compliant with the GDPR. This decision follows a case brought against Der Standard, a major Austrian newspaper, in August 2025. The newspaper’s ‘Pay or OK’ model required users of its website, derstandard.at, to either consent to extensive tracking or pay €9.90 per month for an ad-free experience. The court found that this “all-or-nothing” approach failed to meet GDPR standards. Instead, users must be offered a genuine choice, including the ability to specify which types of data processing they consent to. This ruling reinforces the need for websites and apps to implement granular consent options, enabling individuals to accept or reject specific purposes individually.
You can find the Judgment of the Federal Administrative Court here via noyb (in German):
https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2025-08/20250818145608738p_Redacted.pdf
EU–US Data Privacy Framework: EU court approves continued US data transfers
On 3 September 2025, the EU General Court upheld the validity of the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, enabling businesses to continue transferring personal data to the United States via this mechanism. The Court confirmed that US law offers essentially equivalent protection to that provided by the GDPR. Website owners using US-based services, such as analytics or marketing tools, may continue to transfer personal data to the United States under the current framework.
DMEXCO 2025: Meet us!
DMEXCO 2025 has opened its doors, and we are ready for you! The booth is set up, the screens are glowing and our consentmanager team can’t wait to welcome you. Come and visit us to gain valuable insights into data privacy, the current legal landscape and how to ensure your cookie banner is fully GDPR-compliant while increasing opt-in rates. Visit us in Hall 8.1, Booth F027 on 17–18 September 2025, or book a meeting now to arrange a chat with us:
https://www.consentmanager.net/en/bookacall-dmexco-2025/
Meet us this September at NRF Paris 2025
Our Sales Manager for France, Sylvain Tamburini, will be attending NRF 2025: Retail’s Big Show Europe in Paris from September 16 to 18, 2025. Join him to learn everything you need to know about effective consent management that can drive business growth—through higher opt-in rates, less friction in the user experience, and transforming compliance into a competitive advantage.
You can set up a meeting with Sylvain here:
https://meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/sylvain-tamburini?uuid=eccd1772-d11b-4a0d-845c-3953b5a7aa4e
Admanagerforum Summer Summit 2025 – „Demand meets Supply“!
Our team thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the Admanagerforum Summer Summit 2025, ‘Demand Meets Supply’. Held in Munich on 8 August, the event brought together key industry figures for inspiring discussions and excellent networking opportunities. During their session, ‘Consent Optimization: How to Get More Out of Your CMP!”, our colleagues Christofer Linusson and Gabriel Peña de Silvestri shared actionable insights on how to maximise the value of consent management. Thank you to everyone for the insightful discussions!
We’re growing together!
consentmanager has been part of iubenda for some time, and now you’ll see it on our website and in our logo: “part of iubenda.” Nothing changes for you as a customer, you can keep using our solutions as usual.
Further optimizations and adjustments in September
Further new features and optimizations can be found in the complete release log:
Release Log
- New: Modern design of privacy policy via generator
- Added: GPC targeting for designs
- Added: Add note to whitelisting in monitor
- Improved: CMP Modal icons
- Improved: Vendor list notifications
- Improved: Privacy Policy settings handling
- Improved: Crawler settings handling
- Improved: Legal settings handling
- Improved: Cookie list handling when assigning types
- Improved: Universal search also finds code-IDs
- Improved: Contentpass Design integration
- Improved: App Monitor Charts
- Improved: App PDF export
- Improved: App Monitor Trial
- Improved: App Monitor possibility to mute issues
- Improved: Combine results of multiple monitors into one report
- Fix: No design chosen in wizard
- Fix: Zero value lines in report
- Fix: Accessibility Widget domain issues on trial end
- Fix: Cookie domain assignment selectbox doesnt work
- Fix: Custom scope names not visible
- Fix: Accessibility Reporting issue
- Fix: Monitor infinite refresh issue
