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Author: Mike Smith
Publisher: AMACOM
ISBN: 0814449018
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Part history, part guidebook, part prediction for the future,?this book?tells the story of the companies, individuals, and innovations driving the revolution of online ads. Far from the catchy television spots and sleek magazine spreads are the comparatively modest ads that pop up on websites and in Internet searches. But don't be fooled - online advertising is exploding. Growing at a compound annual rate near 20%, it is now the second-largest advertising channel in the United States. Targeted takes listeners behind the scenes - examining the growth of digital advertising, its enormous potential, and the technologies that are changing the game forever. You will also learn about several key aspects such as: keyword micro-markets, ad serving systems, aggregated virtual audiences, new business models, and much more! Leading the way is real-time bidding, which offers advertisers unprecedented precision in targeting ads and measuring their effectiveness.?This book is sweeping in scope and stripped of technical complexity. Targeted is an essential resource for anyone interested in finding and connecting with customers in the vast and shifting Internet universe.

Author: Timo Beck
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3640836944
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 117

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Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Marketing, Corporate Communication, CRM, Market Research, Social Media, grade: 1,0, University of St Andrews (School of Management), language: English, abstract: Owing to the phenomenal growth of online social networks and the resulting interest of marketers in this new medium, this thesis investigates user perception of targeted advertisements on Facebook, the world's largest and fastest growing social network. Based on a critical literature review, results of previous research studies, and expert interviews with social media practitioners, the author develops a conceptual framework consisting of seven factors that are theorised to impact on how users perceive personalised ads in a social network environment. This framework is partially verified on an empirical basis by means of an online survey among 97 Facebook users. The results provide novel and useful insights into user perception of targeted ads on Facebook that could be used as guidelines for practitioners and as a starting point for further studies.

Author: Berin Szóka
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Federal Trade Commission should avoid laying the groundwork for more onerous regulation of the online advertising marketplace, which could become the equivalent of a disastrous industrial policy for the Internet and choke resources needed to fuel e-commerce and online free speech going forward. With the release of the FTC's updated "Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising," the burden of proof remains on the FTC to show how concrete, not conjectural harms, would flow from efforts to create more targeted forms of advertising, before creating more regulatory mandates that would co-opt the voluntary self-regulatory process. Why is it that the FTC and so-called privacy advocates aren't doing more to highlight existing self-help tools or working to encourage the development of additional - and more robust - tools? FTC intervention in privacy policies of online advertisers could have major consequences for continued creativity and innovation. Tighter regulation of the online advertising market in the form of privacy mandates would severely curtail the overall quantity of content and services offered - and greatly limit the ability of new providers to enter the market with innovative offerings. A better alternative is for self-regulation to be part of a layered approach that includes user education and empowerment through the development of tools and methods by which users can take privacy into their own hands.

Author: Ian Dodson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119265711
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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The premier guide to digital marketing that works, and a solid framework for success The Art of Digital Marketing is the comprehensive guide to cracking the digital marketing 'code,' and reaching, engaging, and serving the empowered consumer. Based on the industry's leading certification from the Digital Marketing Institute (DMI), this book presents an innovative methodology for successful digital marketing: start with the customer and work backwards. A campaign is only effective as it is reflective of the consumer's wants, needs, preferences, and inclinations; the DMI framework provides structured, implementable, iterative direction for getting it right every time. The heart of the framework is a three-step process called the 3i Principles: Initiate, Iterate, and Integrate. This simple idea translates into higher engagement, real customer interaction, and multichannel campaigns that extend even into traditional marketing channels. The evolution of digital marketing isn't really about the brands; it's about consumers exercising more control over their choices. This book demonstrates how using this single realization as a starting point helps you build and implement more effective campaigns. Get inside the customer's head with deep consumer research Constantly improve your campaigns based on feedback and interactions Integrate digital activities across channels, including traditional marketing Build campaigns based on customer choice and control Digital marketing turns traditional marketing models on their heads. Instead of telling the customer what to think, you find out what they already think and go from there. Instead of front-loading resources, you continually adjust your approach based on real interactions with real customers every day. Digital marketing operates within its own paradigm, and The Art of Digital Marketing opens the door for your next campaign.

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Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN: 3736940106
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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The rush of marketing expenditures in the Internet has made effectiveness and efficiency increasingly relevant. In particular, online firms offering free content need to provide powerful marketing tools to advertisers to support their own business models. Behavioral targeting enables websites to selectively display advertisements to consumers according to their surfing profiles, making advertisements more relevant, and thereby increasing advertising revenues from websites. Consequently, it is often seen as a savior by online firms struggling to finance their free content. However, targeting can raise privacy concerns, leading to negative consumer reactions. Furthermore, there is increasing regulatory pressure for websites to inform surfers about targeting practices and provide them with opt-in or opt-out functions. Proactively addressing those challenges to sustain revenues from targeted advertising is highly important—in particular for advertising-supported websites—and requires systematic research. Such research, though, has to account for the fact that the profiling of consumers to increase advertising revenues raises ethical questions, especially because targeting often occurs without consumers’ knowledge. This doctoral dissertation studies consumer privacy concerns with regard to online targeting practices. Specifically, it investigates how privacy concerns affect consumers’ perceptions of targeted advertisements. Furthermore, building on social exchange theory, fairness norms, and previous research on consumer privacy concerns in related areas, such as direct mail and e-commerce, I develop tangible, managerial operational mechanisms to increase consumers’ acceptance of targeting and improve consumers’ perceptions of targeted advertisements. In order to ensure that these mechanisms are in line with principles of business ethics, I derive normative requirements for these mechanisms from integrative social contracts theory. I test these mechanisms and explore the related cognitive processes in two experimental studies – a laboratory and a large-scale field experiment on two popular German websites.1 First, I find that under certain conditions, surfers are highly motivated by reciprocity. Specifically, when reminded that targeted online advertisements support free content and when asked to voluntarily reciprocate the website for providing its free content, consumers do not only more readily consent to targeting, but also perceive targeted advertisements as less intrusive. The effect of appealing to reciprocity on consumers’ acceptance of targeting is driven by consumers’ desire for distributive justice. It is not—as one might believe—driven by selfish motives, such as the expectation of receiving free content in the future. Second, in contrast to the current industry practice, I find that informing consumers that targeting makes advertisements they see on the Internet more interesting to them does not have any significant effect. This finding shows that there is currently great potential for the online advertising industry to change the way it promotes and justifies targeting to consumers. Finally, I find that providing consumers with a high level of control over their information not only increases their perceptions of procedural justice, but also reduces privacy concerns, increases trust, and thus the acceptance of targeting. As such, my research suggests that it is advisable to allow consumers to access and edit the anonymous profiles stored in their cookies—a practice currently followed by very few websites and advertising networks. Overall, this doctoral dissertation contributes to a very new academic research field studying targeted online advertising and consumer privacy concerns. In contrast to previous studies, which have all described the challenges related to privacy concerns, this study focuses on reconciling consumers’ legitimate desire to protect their privacy and the interests of the Internet industry which requires powerful marketing tools. Thus, from a practical perspective, this dissertation identifies mechanisms for websites in general and for ‘free content’ websites in particular to sustain or even increase their advertising revenues. As such, my findings may help advertising-supported online businesses to keep their services free of charge and thereby to sustain the consumer surplus they generate. Through the combination of real behavioral and self-reported data, the findings are particularly robust and might further stimulate the debate on consumer privacy, advertising effectiveness, and the financing of free content among academics, practitioners, and regulators.

Author: Timo Beck
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3640836901
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 1,0, University of St Andrews (School of Management), language: English, abstract: Owing to the phenomenal growth of online social networks and the resulting interest of marketers in this new medium, this thesis investigates user perception of targeted advertisements on Facebook, the world’s largest and fastest growing social network. Based on a critical literature review, results of previous research studies, and expert interviews with social media practitioners, the author develops a conceptual framework consisting of seven factors that are theorised to impact on how users perceive personalised ads in a social network environment. This framework is partially verified on an empirical basis by means of an online survey among 97 Facebook users. The results provide novel and useful insights into user perception of targeted ads on Facebook that could be used as guidelines for practitioners and as a starting point for further studies.

Author: Kushal Dave
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781601988324
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Computational Advertising: Techniques for Targeting Relevant Ads surveys and discusses the problems and solutions pertaining to the information retrieval, machine learning and statistics domain of Computational Advertising.

Author: Tim Hwang
Publisher: FSG Originals
ISBN: 0374721246
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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From FSGO x Logic: a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious foundation In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising—the beating heart of the internet—is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars, to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers’ attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself—much like subprime mortgages—is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet—and its free services—will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Deeply researched, convincing, and alarming, Subprime Attention Crisis will change the way you look at the internet, and its precarious future. FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today.

Author: Minh-Dung Tran
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In modern online advertising, advertisers tend to track Internet users' activities and use these tracking data to personalize ads. Even though this practice - known as extit{targeted advertising} - brings economic benefits to advertising companies, it raises serious concerns about potential abuses of users' sensitive data. While such privacy violations, if performed by trackers, are subject to be regulated by laws and audited by privacy watchdogs, the consequences of data leakage from these trackers to other entities are much more difficult to detect and control. Protecting user privacy is not easy since preventing tracking undermines the benefits of targeted advertising and consequently impedes the growth of free content and services on the Internet, which are mainly fostered by advertising revenue. While short-term measures, such as detecting and fixing privacy leakages in current systems, are necessary, there needs to be a long-term approach, such as privacy-by-design ad model, to protect user privacy by prevention rather than cure. In the first part of this thesis, we study several vulnerabilities in current advertising systems that leak user data from advertising companies to external entities. First, since targeted ads are personalized to each user, we present an attack exploiting these ads on the fly to infer user private information that have been used to select ads. Second, we investigate common ad exchange protocols, which allow companies to cooperate in serving ads to users, and show that advertising companies are leaking user private information, such as web browsing history, to multiple parties participating in the protocols. These web browsing histories are given to these entities at surprisingly low prices, reflecting the fact that user privacy is extremely underestimated by the advertising industry.In the second part of the thesis, we propose a privacy-by-design targeted advertising model which allows personalizing ads to users without the necessity of tracking. This model is specifically aimed for the two newly emerging ad technologies - retargeting advertising and ad exchange. We show that this model provides strong protection for user privacy while still ensuring ad targeting performance and being practically deployable.

Author: Christian Schlee
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3834823961
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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In recent years, the field of information and communication technology has started to change dramatically. Carriers are threatened by high revenue losses requiring them to identify new revenue potentials beyond their core business. Targeted advertising can be one of these revenue opportunities. Christian Schlee provides a broad overview of the latest developments and trends in targeted advertising in the ICT space. The author focuses on the technological aspects of targeted advertising, but also covers business and legal aspects. He analyzes the most interesting use cases in the Web, IPTV, the mobile environment, and in converged scenarios and examines important technological key building blocks.