“Contrary to what many marketers claim, most adult Americans (66 percent) do not want marketers to tailor advertisements to their interests, s new study from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of California Berkeley School of Law and the Annenberg Public Policy Center suggests.
“Moreover, when Americans are informed of three common ways that marketers gather data about people in order to tailor ads, even higher percentages— between 73 percent and 86 percent—say they would not want such advertising,” the Annenberg study says.
Respondents showed somewhat more interest in receiving personalized discounts and news, but still, less than one-half of Americans wanted any tailored Web content at all.
That was true of consumers in every age group—even young adults ages 18 to 24 were more likely to say no to behavioral targeting than to accept it, except for discounts.
More than two thirds of respondents to the Annenberg/Berkeley study felt they had lost control over their personal information. At the same time, however, they believed businesses handled their data well and that they were already protected by current regulations.
One suspects the responses might be different if consumers are asked whether they would be willing to receive tailored messages in exchange for some other tangible benefit, such as lower Internet access costs, free text or lower-cost voice, discounts or other tangible benefits.
The precedent is TV commercials. Just about everybody says they do not like commercials. But if asked whether they would rather watch TV without commercials, if the cost were higher, most people then say they will choose an ad-supported service.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Study Finds Consumers Do Not Want Targeted Ads
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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