Better Data Needed To Improve Ad Targeting

by Laurie Sullivan Published

The advertising industry rallying around improving the quality of data to target ads continues to make improvements to processes and techniques. Google began rolling out a remarketing tool in Google Analytics on Friday to help marketers gain insight into targeting ads. But if the brand's data mixed with inadequate information from a third-party data seller,  a company's retargeting strategy will deliver less than stellar results. At Guthy-Renker, Colette Dill-Lerner, vice president of Internet marketing, said she has looked at data files "where nearly 50% of the gender is wrong." Some marketers think this characteristic remains one of the most difficult to identify. Aside from gender, other discrepancies exist in third-party…

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