The effects of online advertising
Communications of the ACM - Emergency response information systems: emerging trends and technologies
How much can behavioral targeting help online advertising?
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
On the leakage of personally identifiable information via online social networks
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Online social networks
Challenges in measuring online advertising systems
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Privacy Violations Using Microtargeted Ads: A Case Study
ICDMW '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops
Online Display Advertising: Targeting and Obtrusiveness
Marketing Science
SP 800-122. Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
SP 800-122. Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Semantic metadata in the news production process: achievements and challenges
Proceeding of the 16th International Academic MindTrek Conference
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Online display advertising is predicted to make $29.53 billion this year. Advertisers believe targeted and personalized ads to be more effective, but many users are concerned about their privacy. We conducted a study where 30 participants completed a simulated holiday booking task; each page showing ads with different degrees of personalization. Participants fixated twice as long when ads contained their photo. Participants reported being more likely to notice ads with their photo, holiday destination, and name, but also increasing levels of discomfort with increasing personalization. We conclude that greater personalization in ad content may achieve higher levels of attention, but that the most personalized ads are also the least acceptable. The noticeability benefit in using someone's photo to make them look at an ad may be offset by the privacy cost. As more personal data becomes available to advertisers, it becomes important that these trade-offs are considered.