Dentsu Aegis Network Plans to Target All Ads at Trackable Individuals
If subscription services replace retailers and consumers shop mostly within closed systems like Amazon and Facebook, it gets really hard for advertising to have an impact. But until that happens, Dentsu Aegis Network hopes to target all ads at specific (though anonymized) individuals. It has just launched M1, a “people-based marketing platform” that assigns a persistent anonymized ID to every adult in the U.S. and can synch that ID with publishers’ own IDs. It currently has 242 million anonymized profiles based on actual name, address, and/or email address.