Reduce wastage by using behavioural targeting in context

Behavioural targeting – delivering ads based on users’ online searching or surfing behaviour – has been hailed as nirvana for marketers, but it is just one of many targeting options.

Reduce wastage by using behavioural targeting in context

Sue Elms and Duncan Southgate

Behavioural targeting – delivering ads based on a user's searching or surfing behaviour – is now increasingly commonplace. It has been heralded as nirvana for marketers but, in reality, it is just one of many online targeting options, each one more or less relevant to the brand's different marketing task (Figure 1).

Figure 1: Online targeting types available

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