News Pick – Invisible Ads, Phantom Readers – Economist
March 26, 2016 – “Worries about fraud and fragmentation may prompt a shakeout in the crowded online-ad industry. This year, for the first time, advertisers in America may spend more online than on television. Worldwide, online ads may surpass television in 2017, predicts the forecasting unit of Interpublic, a giant ad agency. Digital advertisers’ ambitions border on the divine. They are omnipresent, nestling their ads in news sites, search results and Instagram feeds. They are increasingly omniscient: no longer do advertisers know just general things about you—a worldly professional, say, with superb taste in journalism—but they target you, specifically. Omnipotence, however, is proving harder to achieve.” Read the full story at the Economist
