The importance of customer-oriented marketing has increased for companies in recent decades. With the advent of one-customer strategies, especially in e-commerce, traditional mass marketing in this area is becoming increasingly obsolete as customer-specific targeting becomes realizable. Such a...

Even as online advertising continues to grow, a central question remains: Who to target? Yet, advertisers know little about how to select from the hundreds of audience segments for targeting (and combinations thereof) for a profitable online advertising campaign. Utilizing insights from a field...

Differential Privacy offers the online advertising industry new means to increase consumer privacy by obfuscating consumer data. While achieving the same privacy, these means decrease targeting accuracy differently, subsequently reducing advertisers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for targeted...

Video games have emerged as one of the world’s fastest-growing industries. Although initially aimed at adults, video games have become an increasingly popular pastime among youth, with 90% of children playing video games today throughout the United States according to a Pew Research study...

Regulators implement Digital Service Tax (DST) – a tax applying to services of online advertisers and publishers – to generate tax revenue from the online advertising industry. Implementing DST on targeted ads increases their price and potentially decreases their number, thus mitigating the...