Conference For Marketers Who Produce Branded Content

As I wrote in the Trends post, the current explosive growth in consumer-generated media is not the only consequence of content production tools becoming more accessible. Even more important is the growth of content that is produced and distributed directly by marketers without the institutional media acting as paid intermediaries. Yes, BudTV has not been the biggest success story so far, but it’s also about the myriads of in-flight and store magazines, newsletters, podcasts, branded social networks (P&G, Johnson&Johnson are among the bigger players), websites, films, on-demand cable productions, games.

It’s a big trend, much bigger than whatever technological novelty of the day is attracting everyone’s attention. This is why I’m glad to help spread the word about the first Custom Content Conference (New Orleans, March 9-11, 2008) produced by the Custom Publishing Council. Check out the online Content magazine that the Council publishes, too. Registration is $595 before January 1 and $695 thereafter.

Behavioral Targeting on ISP Level

Venture Beat: “Targeted advertising usually relies on “cookies” that a Web site places on your browser when you visit it. The cookies can afterwards track which individual pages the visitor accessed. Cookies have a number of limitations, not least their inability to see what a user has done away from that particular website. Technology developed by NebuAd uses a different technique called “deep packet inspection.” NebuAd offers its packet inspection software to internet service providers. NebuAd then turns around and provides the traffic information to advertising networks.

Surfers visiting pages with ads from NebuAd-affiliated networks will find the ads more likely to be meaningful to them; a user researching electric cars, for instance, might be less likely to see an ad for an SUV, and more likely to see one for a Prius.”

The company can make gobs of money if it just datamined, packaged and sold behavior information it gathers. And AdBlock Plus must have updated its filters, it wouldn’t let Firefox render NebuAd’s site at all.

TV Is Dead


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