1. IMAGINE THE FUTURE
Leveraging innovative business models
Behavioral targeting advertising across the Internet
- Newsletter # 2, 2008 -
Context
In search of enhanced advertising investment performance, some advertisers
are exploring new approaches to target internet users’ interests, well beyond
contextual ad placement.
wunderloop, for instance, has developed a technology, and the associated
commercial offer, allowing behavioral targeting through the analysis of
user’s browsing history while preserving his privacy
Innovative Media planning framework
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planning tools, advertisers
have to combine leading
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purchasing for a full coverage,
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… across a large scope of
affiliated websites
• Internet users are profiled
Business opportunities combining their sociological
characteristics (when
• Generalist websites / large audience websites: available) with their web
- Increase audience valuation through target profile selling all over browsing history and their
the website current search interests on
• Specialized websites / small websites: affiliated websites
- Enlarge potential advertisers outside website’s contextual topic
• Behavioral targeting
- Maximize ad inventory value and limit recourse to “bulk” network
advertising is a growing part
selling
of e-advertising and is
• Advertisers:
expected to reach 8% of it by
- Optimize Return On Investment for targeted campaigns
2011 (vs.3.4% in 2008)
2. wunderloop profile Website
• Launched in 1999
• Employees: over 80
• Founders: Ulrich Hegge & Frank Conrad
• CEO: Torsten Ahlers
• Source of revenue: Monthly technical fee paid by affiliated
website publishers or Revenue share of targeted ad sales
(online B2B)
A.T. Kearney's interview of wunderloop CEO - Torsten Ahlers
• “Timing and precision are the factors that make online advertising so successful: wunderloop Integrated
Targeting reaches the right users in the right place at the right time”
• “wunderloop is not a one-trick pony, we have expertise in many different variations, areas and business
models in the field of targeting”
• “Privacy protection is a top priority at wunderloop: we are the first company in Germany to have been
awarded the European Commission-backed EuroPrise seal for exemplary privacy protection”
Example of alternative offers
BlueLithium (Yahoo!) Revenue Science TACODA (AOL) weborama
• Founded in 2004 • Active in advertising • Founded in 2001 • Founded in 1998
(acquired by Yahoo in 2007) since 2000 (acquired by AOL • weborama has more
• BlueLithium reaches • Revenue Science in 2007) than 300 paying clients
155 million monthly unique reaches more than • TACODA has more reaching more than
users 120 million monthly than 4000 websites 22 million active profiles
• BlueLithium has offices unique users reaching more than in main European
in US, Europe and Asia • Revenue Science 140 million monthly countries, North Africa
originated in the US unique users and North America
and is present in
Europe since 2004
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