Archive for the ‘behavioral targeting’ Category

Gator / Claria / Jellycloud finally shuts down.

Monday, October 6th, 2008

I thought we would never see the day. The infamous spyware company, Gator, having rebranded at least twice and most recently losing several of their "key" employees to the toxic, ISP behavioral targeting firm, NebuAd, had shuttered it's doors. http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/06/controversial-ad-company-jellycloud-shuts-down-citing-industry-consolidation/

ISP Based BT under scrutiny in the UK

Friday, March 7th, 2008

There was an interesting article this morning on ClickZ detailing the privacy scrutiny that is being placed on a UK-based ISP-based Behavioral Targeting company. Some of the interesting tidbits from the article follow - don't you think they would have been better prepared to deal with the consumer privacy backlash? If this ...

Behavioral Targeting - what we need to do next?

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Curent methods:? Offline, online, cookie-based, ISP-based.? Current issues:? social networking privacy concerns, opt-in, opt-out, standards, relevant guidelines. What is the impact of consolidation in the industry if traffic is the ultimate commodity.? Over the past couple of years, the acquisitions in the market have been around data ...

Is Behavioral Targeting (BT) an invasion of privacy?

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

I recently asked a question regarding BT on LinkedIn, and received some very interesting responses. Obviously this is a very unscientific survey that is clearly skewed and not normally distributed, but the responses are interesting nonetheless: I have included a few below: "No, I do not think it is an ...

OMMA Behavioral: “The Hot Zone: The State of the BT Market”

Monday, February 11th, 2008

David Hallerman, Senior Analyst, eMarketer Spending and where it is going US Internet Advertising Spending - $50B in 2012 US BT Ad Spending, $3.5B in 2012 As share of spend, 9.6% of total US Internet Advertising Spending in 2012 BT will get a 27% budget increase in 2008 Why dollars don't deceive - stats for 2008 Google ...

OMMA Behavioral: “Are You In or Are You Out?: Targeting the Social Network”

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Moderator: Rob Graham, VP of Creative and Technical Training, The Laredo Group Panelist: Molly Hop, Group Media Director, Critical Mass; Jeff Freedman, Director of Business ...

Hyper-targeting without the Hype

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Peter Horan, CEO, IAC Media and Advertising For as much interest and success as we have had in BT - what we are seeing and doing now is the very very early stages. "What is the business of Media and Advertiisng really all about?" Media is the business of offering marketers ...

OMMA Behavioral - Keynote

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Keynote: Steve Smith, MediaPost Columnist and Emcee Increased audience fragmentation is one of the key reasons why behavioral targeting is going to be a key technology and advertising enabler in the immediate future Multiple channels and relevance is of nearly equal importance "The Heat is On" - we are at an interesting ...

FTC Proposes Online Behavioral Advertising Privacy Principles

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

I received an email from our attorneys this past week soliciting comments on the new FTC policy proposing increased visibility for consumers regarding behavioral advertising. The FTC is proposing a whole host of things regarding consumer control, length of data retention, adherence to privacy policies, and use of sensitive data usage. ...

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