Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Twitter Experiments With Email-Based Ad Targeting

Twitter

Twitter is attempting to improve its targeting by using scrambled emails from advertisers that will let them run more targeted ads


Twitter, which announced the program on Wednesday in a blog post, used this hypothetical example:



How does this work? Let’s say a local florist wants to advertise a Valentine’s Day special on Twitter. They’d prefer to show their ad to flower enthusiasts who frequent their website or subscribe to their newsletter. To get the special offer to those people who are also on Twitter, the shop may share with us a scrambled, unreadable email address (a hash) or browser-related information (a browser cookie ID). We can then match that information to accounts in order to show them a Promoted Tweet with the Valentine’s Day deal. This is how most other companies handle this practice, and we don’t give advertisers any additional user information. Read more...



More about Advertising, Twitter, and Business



via Make Your Own Website Tools Tips Tricks http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/j7-kcuu1-Fc/ Best WordPress Hosting

No comments:

Post a Comment