Behavioral Targeting

Shoe Carnival Cobbles Up a Retargeting Program

Shoe Carnival Cobbles Up a Retargeting Program By

Shoe Carnival's e-commerce site was suffering because it couldn't target relevant products to potential customers. So the site stepped up its game.

The transparency movement won't stop at behavioral targeting

The transparency movement won't stop at behavioral targeting

Regulators are seeking more transparency throughout our ecosystem.

Keep email recipients from becoming numb to your message

Keep email recipients from becoming numb to your message

Everyone receives a lot of email. By treating your recipient as a human instead of an email address, you can yield positive results.

Be relevant, not creepy

Be relevant, not creepy

Behavioral targeting can be a highly effective marketing asset when customer data is used wisely, not wildly.

Bridging the channel divide

Bridging the channel divide By By

What'll happen in Vegas will be so excellent, you won't be able to keep it in Vegas. At the DMA Annual Conference in Las Vegas from Oct. 13 to 18, Direct Marketing News will be hosting three thought-provoking Town Square sessions.

TRUSTe: Consumers wary of mobile privacy policies

TRUSTe: Consumers wary of mobile privacy policies By

A new report from privacy management and solutions provider TRUSTe reveals that consumers don't yet trust mobile targeting.

Why I'm cool with behavioral targeting

Why I'm cool with behavioral targeting By

Marketers who know customers' actions will have insight that demographics alone can't match.

The consumer is your wife, sister, mother, girlfriend, niece ...

The consumer is your wife, sister, mother, girlfriend, niece ...

According to Beyoncé, it's girls who run the world. And looking at recent research, she is probably right. Worldwide, women are responsible for nearly four times as much consumer spending as China and India combined.

Targeting Video Series: Paul Notzold, group creative director, Aspen Marketing Services

Targeting Video Series: Paul Notzold, group creative director, Aspen Marketing Services

Paul Notzold, group creative director, Aspen Marketing Services, a division of Epsilon on the unique connection between targeting and European cathedrals

Targeting soup: choosing the right method for you

Targeting soup: choosing the right method for you

With all the talk of DSPs, SSPs, DMPs and GRPs, it's easy to forget that no matter who is buying and who is selling, success is highly dependent upon good targeting.

Plug-ins: email marketing

Plug-ins: email marketing

Email marketing is no longer a one-to-many communications strategy. Our experts offer up their best advice to help marketers take advantage of consumer expectations.

DAA debuts consumer education campaign for online behavioral advertising

DAA debuts consumer education campaign for online behavioral advertising By

The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) debuted on Jan. 20 the first phase of a multistage campaign designed to educate consumers about online behavioral advertising.

Profiling is not a dirty word

Profiling is not a dirty word

If I don't know you, I won't read your email. Unless what you have to say appeals to my puerile sense of self-interest. If you aren't a friend or trusted source of international cycling news, I won't look at your tweet — no matter how clever. I'm a marketer's nightmare.

The Evolution of Online Behavioral Advertising Self-Regulation

The Evolution of Online Behavioral Advertising Self-Regulation

Taking a closer look at 2011 and looking to the future we can see three distinct phases of the industry's self-regulatory movement emerge.

EnergyCAP leverages prospect data to automate email campaigns

EnergyCAP leverages prospect data to automate email campaigns By

EnergyCAP needed to find a way to tie prospects to their online behavior.

DAA should partner with browsers on Do Not Track, says FTC chairman

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The Digital Advertising Alliance should work to implement its online behavioral advertising opt-out mechanism on a browser level, said Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chairman Jon Leibowitz on Nov. 8.

DAA expands data collection principles

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The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) debuted a set of principles on Nov. 7 that would extend the organization's governance beyond data collected to target online behavioral ads (OBA) to include any online behavioral data collected from a unique computer or device across non-affiliated sites.

On the issue of online privacy, where do industry and government agree?

On the issue of online privacy, where do industry and government agree?

Several points of alignment between government officials and industry executives emerged at a recent hearing on consumer online privacy.

FTC, COPPA and PII, oh my

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The Federal Trade Commission's proposed revisions to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act could open the door to broader online advertising implications.

Study: Consumers most willing to share shopping data with brands

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Consumers are most willing to share shopping data with brands online, according to a study released by agency network McCann Worldgroup's McCann Truth Central on Oct. 18.

FTC proposes online child-privacy rule changes

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) outlined proposed changes to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) on Sept. 15 that would expand the law to impact companies collecting data from individuals under 13 years of age to serve behaviorally targeted ads online or via mobile devices.

Wal-Mart adds social ad-targeting capabilities with OneRiot acquisition

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Wal-Mart Stores has acquired social ad-targeting firm OneRiot, both companies said September 13.

Keeping track of Do Not Track

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Last week the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) said that it's created a Tracking Protection Working Group to standardize browsers' Do Not Track mechanisms. The group's hosting a conference call on September 14 and is slated to publish standards by mid-2012.

Realize email's potential in the 'mocial' era

Realize email's potential in the 'mocial' era

Two of email's great attributes are its flexibility and ability to deliver dynamically targeted messages in a one-to-one fashion.

Email measurement: the missing ingredient

Email measurement: the missing ingredient

Are marketers effectively using email to get closer to their customers? If email is the least expensive, most trackable and easiest way to understand customer behavior, why aren't more marketers using it to its full potential?

Behavioral targeting can be magic bullet to drive profit

Behavioral targeting can be magic bullet to drive profit

If you could identify which names in your next mailing are likely to become high lifetime value customers — and which aren't — would you change your deployment strategy? 
That's the idea behind optimizing campaigns through list scoring.

Gannett to expand Yahoo partnership to all 19 broadcast markets

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Gannett Co. will expand its display advertising partnership with Yahoo to all of its broadcasting division's 19 markets by the first week of next February.

Q&A: Teresa Jeffry, retail industry practice head, AOL

Q&A: Teresa Jeffry, retail industry practice head, AOL By

Teresa Jeffry, who heads AOL's retail industry practice, discusses how retailers are plotting their holiday display advertising campaigns.

TRUSTe debuts privacy icon for video ads

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Online security firm Truste rolled out the Digital Advertising Alliance's "Advertising Option" icon to online-video and rich-media ads on August 26.

Apple backs off mobile tracking

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Apple has discouraged mobile app developers from using a feature that enables mobile ad networks to target ads, according to TechCrunch's Erick Shonfeld.

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