Entries in the ‘Behavioral’ Category:

Demographic behavioral targeting not impressing at Online Marketing World

At Online Marketing World, we’ve been speaking to many potential clients and partners and one thing that has really resonated is the move from demographic based behavioral targeting to contextual targeting. At Baynote, we’ve been championing contextual targeting for product and content recommendations over the last 3 years. Initially, this wasn’t a popular [...]

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How much information is too much?

Several privacy groups are calling for a “Do not Track List” to limit behavioral profiling techniques similar to “Do Not Call Lists” that keep those pesky telemarketers from tying up our phone lines. As an employee at Baynote, I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t love the idea of recommendations driven by [...]

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Behavioral vs. Contextual: Man’s Killer Gene Strikes Again

For the last two weeks I couldn’t help but notice my inbox being bombarded with reports that behavioral targeting is better than contextual targeting from the blogosphere. Despite my skepticism of the study’s results, I took a closer look. After reading a few different editorials covering this recent Jupiter Research Study(spear-headed by behavioral [...]

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Digg getting more social, but why? Profile Targeting Part 1.

As if we don’t have enough profiles, Digg is giving us one more place to build a profile, why? One more profile that can be used to provide targeted advertisements and content.
Posted on Read/Write Web earlier today:

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Sometime today, according to BusinessWeek, social news site Digg will launch a slew of new social [...]

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