Posted By Vidar

Thursday at 7:28AM EDT

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I just came across a thorough presentation compiled by Greg Stuart, former CEO and President of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). It is called an “In-Depth Introduction to Internet Advertising” and is a whopping 82 slides. However, it contains many great sound-bites as well as stats that any interactive marketer should have in their arsenal.

Posted By David

Wednesday at 6:52AM EDT

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Just a quick note this morning to acknowledge comments from Blogger Jim Nichols, from Catalyst in SF, with respect to my podcast interview.

“So, to use a football analogy, behavioral targeting will get you into the red zone — but no farther. We don’t do our own ad placement. However, if a customer already using BT has the data to know you are a certain profile, we can take that data and further customize the way menus are structured. If you know from their browsing that a customer, let’s say, is a bargain hunter, then you can organize your different offers by price range.”

Posted By Vidar

Wednesday at 1:10PM EDT

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Advertisers need to stop producing ads that are likely to generate unqualified clicks, as those ads don’t do anybody justice; Advertisers get frustrated when ads that engage fail to generate conversions, publishers loose their credibility as targeted destinations, but most importantly, customer gets more jaded as they learn that even the few ads they do click on lead to irrelevant junk.

Posted By Vidar

Friday at 5:20AM EDT

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The current debate around behavioral targeting and online privacy is a healthy one, and as a consumer and a marketing executive I find myself on the fence arguing for both sides.

However, it’s easy to get blind sighted by the polemics of this debate, forcing us to believe that we’re at a fork in the road where our choices are either behavioral targeting or ‘traditional’ (contextual, demographic, intent, etc.).

There are other alternatives that serve both advertiser and the consumer interests and goals. That’s what I think is lost in the noise of this debate.