Capturing More User Info in a Less Creepy Way

Given today’s digital privacy minefield, publishers and advertisers must find ways to get information from their audiences without creeping them out. Many have turned to social login tools, like Facebook Connect and more recently Google+ Sign-In, that let users easily consent to port their social identities (and real-life profiles) to a publisher’s site. Online commenting platform Disqus would like some of that attention. The San Francisco-based company, whose network reaches more than 1 billion unique visitors a month, is launching its own social sign-on tool called AudienceSync. Disqus CEO Daniel Ha said the tool will help publishers and their advertisers better connect with the 1.5 million people who create a Disqus profile each month. He described Disqus users as a “prime target for advertisers to reach” because accounts are specifically created to participate with and share content via comments. In other words, they’re engaged consumers. “A lot of the interest we’ve had with AudienceSync so far is publishers wanting to create accounts so their audience becomes something very valuable in the eyes of advertisers,” Ha said, noting that roughly a half-dozen publishers such as The Daily Meal have participated in the tool’s prelaunch testing. Similar to Facebook’s Custom Audiences ad targeting, a publisher can use AudienceSync to collect users’ email addresses and match them up with brands’ existing customer email databases. Once that’s done, any AudienceSync user... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

[ AdWeek | 2013-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]

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How to get Amazon Prime for free for October Prime Day

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How to get Amazon Prime for free for Prime Day 2022

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HBO Max exec admits to the app’s early flaws

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Amazon's Kindle sale brings the Paperwhite back to an all-time low

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Devine intervention: News Corp columnist forced to say she doesn't 'want grandma to die' | The Weekly Beast

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Sponsored by Pushly 2020 wasn’t supposed to go quite like this. Whether digital natives or survivors of a decade-long shift away from legacy models, most large online publishers entered the year forecasting significant revenue growth and continued investment in more sophisticated digital... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

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Here’s How the IAB’s NewFronts Work

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'News Geek' Google CEO Appeases Publishers With End to 'First Click Free'

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Apple fixes iOS lock screen bypass that gives access to photos, contacts

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