Sunday, February 28, 2016

Week 8 Responses

Facebook to Tell Brands More About Who’s Near Their Stores, Tailor Ads to Them

Will there be a point in the future when advertising becomes too tailored? At what point will it become too cumbersome to track customers, locations, trends, and other data making it more tedious to target customers. Will this even become an issue or will this boost ROI to such a level that no other method of targeted advertising succeed. IF social media took a turn for the worse and ceased to be used by people, what would advertisers do to maintain such tailored advertising? I think it is somewhat dangerous to rely so much on social media for data.

I do appreciate that Facebook is keeping (at least for the time being) the data anonymous as to not breech our privacy too much. I would be even more inclined to cancel my Facebook if it was alerting companies that I, specifically, was walking near their store. That would be a complete breech of privacy.



Free? New Research Shows You’re Likely Paying With Your Privacy

“Because ad-blocking prevents publishers from gaining income they derive when ads are clicked, the CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau claimed that ‘ad blocking is robbery’ that could lead to an ‘internet apocalypse.’” I do not agree with this statement made by the CEO. Ad-block isn’t robbery at all. It is the same thing as throwing out a paper ad from the mail or changing the station when an ad comes on the radio or TV. Just because the ad could have been clicked on doesn’t mean it actually would have been. Thus, nothing gained, nothing lost. Also, the people who are blocking ads are probably the same people who won’t even click on the ad if they did see it.


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