Behavioral Targeting
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 17:07
Behavioral Targeting is an important concept in e-marketing. It refers to the technique used by site owners or ad networks to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their web-page design. To some extend, it’s basically a kind of advertising methodology.
Behavioral targeting has been around in various forms, ever since the late 1990s. With this technique, web-based companies can better convey tailored information to their consumers, based on their recent behaviors with the use of Internet, such as viewing of web pages, on-line shopping for products or services, typing keywords into a search engine or the combination of these three aspects. Besides, it allows on-line publishers or advertisers to display content more relevant to the interests of the audience, who spent time eyeballing the information offered. As properly targeted advertisement will fetch the consumer interest more precisely, the seller may ask for a premium for these over random advertising based on the context of a website.
One important feature distinguishing the behavioral targeting from the past targeting systems is that, all the players involved in it take great pains to stress that they do not gather personally identifiable information with the purpose to deliver advertisement. However, when it comes to consumer knowledge and acceptance, there are still some rather gray territories in the practice of behavioral targeting. The moral issues concerning this technique are still questionable, while the perfect regulation for such business practice is still unavailable. Previous attempts have failed due to the issues of privacy and troubles with technology, but the new generation of software appears to be more robust, and marketers seem to be more accepting now.
Due to the great benefits behavioral targeting can bring forward, many Fortune 500 companies now are actually trying hard to make good use of this media solution in order to make a success in their advertising campaign.
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