Content Targetting for Personal Ads
April 2, 2004
Sure, personal ads are one of the biggest money-makers on the web, with everyone from InterActiveCorp to Friendster being involved in the space, and of course content-targetted ads are raking in huge bucks for Yahoo/Overture and Google, but has anybody combined the two yet?
I want to see content-targetted personal ads on the websites I visit. "Single? Looking for someone who loves blogs? Click here!" And then all the lonely web surfers could buy keywords for their ad to appear on. But then I guess that's what Jeff is talking about, that keywords aren't good enough. We should be targetting the people that visit a site, instead of the merely words that appear on it.
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I get a few people who want to track their dollar bills. I tell them to send me their twenties, and we'll talk later about their singles.
Web advertising will have made it when:
1 - I can read a blog, and get ads hooked into my public wishlists and interests selling vaguely related music or books.
2 - When it's dinner time local time I get online dinner delivery ads for a pizza or indian.
3 - That concept of "earn $0.25 an hour" for docking a huge toolbar with ads makes a COMEBACK, this time with elegance! A sort of google adbar - thats what I see coming.
It's not really clear from the trackback above, but I suggested a new google service called gating.com.
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Personally, when I'm faced with a decision between eating a pizza or Indian, I will almost always go with the pizza because I can't imagine eating an entire Indian, whether Native-American or Asian, in a single sitting.
That said, localized and time-sensitive advertising is definitely a marketing step in the right direction.
Grand post about search engines. I'm honestly dumfounded that this hasn't been pronounced earlier.