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Have you labored over where behavioral targeting belongs within a plan: is it a strategy, tactic or part of a larger strategy? Why do you even need digital objectives? And, what’s up with engagement these days? Oh, I digress, but for a very good reason. Before you decide where behavioral targeting fits in the puzzle, make sure you understand the elements that will make up your plan, a.k.a., the objective, strategy, and tactics.

Savvy brands and marketers already have plans in place for reaching consumers in 2010. Strategic plans, though, must have room for change. Two areas where marketers can gain ground are virtual events and ad targeting programs. Both of these categories are rapidly changing, but with preparation marketers can capitalize. What can you expect as 2010 dawns?

The first dirty little secret of most of the demand-side networks is that they’re staffed by two to three employees working some spreadsheets and balancing loads to optimize inventory for their clients.

The second little dirty secret is that many of the agencies building these solutions are including them on all their clients’ media buys and getting paid on both sides.

Today is a big day for consumer privacy protection in online advertising. A number of companies in the space — Turn, Omnicom Media Group, Cadreon, Vivaki, Havas, GroupM, Netmining and Safecount — have joined forces with Better Advertising (betteradvertising.com) to design the next generation consumer privacy monitoring tool for online advertising.

Using research from AT&T Labs that showed « any person in contact with an existing customer of a firm is three to five times more likely to respond to a message from the firm, » Media6Degrees founders saw a similar opportunity with the advent of the social Web. At the heart of its technology are three primary components: a pixeled ( »tagged ») advertiser Web site, site visitors who demonstrate a certain degree of interaction ( »loyalty ») with this site, and anonymous user data collected by third-party social networking applications and shared with Media6Degrees. Once a loyal user has been identified, Media6Degrees looks at its user data to find and target advertising to their friends

In a business climate where reduced ad spending translates into an urgent need for greater efficiency and ROI, high performance behavioral targeting presents an incredible opportunity for marketers to stretch their ad dollars even further. By leveraging richer behavioral data, and with the right real-time technologies powering their behavioral targeting efforts, marketers will start to realize greater returns from their campaigns because they’ll be finally tapping into the right audience in the right context.

In “MySpace Ads and the Big Leap,” I wrote about the simple and powerful advertising platforms from MySpace and Facebook.

This post is a recap of the “Evolution of Media Buying and What That Means for Publishers” panel at PubMatic’s Ad Revenue 2009 last week.

Moderated by John Ebbert, Managing Editor, AdExchangeranelists:
Andrew Kraft, VP Technology Solutions, Collective Media
Darren Herman, Founder & President, Varick Media Management
Joe Zawadzki, CEO, MediaMath
Matthew Greitzer, VP Search Marketing and Head of ATOM Systems, Razorfish
Sean Kegelman, SVP, Partnerships, VivaKi Nerve Center

One of the biggest players in behavioral data vows to help Web sites sell more information about their readers.

If you’re anything like me, juggling another targeting advertising network on your media buy is the last thing you want to do.

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