{"id":5363,"date":"2014-02-17T11:54:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T18:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5363"},"modified":"2014-03-03T11:59:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T18:59:10","slug":"its-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/17\/its-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2014\/02\/17\/new-technology-allows-for-tv-ads-targeting-specific-individuals-families\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from CBS DC<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>New Technology Allows For TV Ads to Target Specific Individuals,\u00a0Families<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2014\/02\/17\/new-technology-allows-for-tv-ads-targeting-specific-individuals-families\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The days when political campaigns would try to make inroads with demographic groups such as soccer moms or white working-class voters are gone. Now, the operatives are targeting specific individuals. (Photo credit should read KAREN MINASYAN\/AFP\/Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/cbswashington.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/467617907.jpg?w=594&amp;h=349&amp;crop=1\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The days when political campaigns would try to make inroads with demographic groups such as soccer moms or white working-class voters are gone. Now, the operatives are targeting specific individuals.<\/p>\n<p>And, in some places, they can reach those individuals directly through their televisions.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Addressable TV, an emerging technology that allows advertisers \u2014 Senate hopefuls and insurance companies alike \u2014 to pay some broadcasters to pinpoint specific homes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisers have long bought ads knowing that only a fraction of the audience was likely to respond to them. Allowing campaigns \u2014 political or not \u2014 to finely hone their TV pitches to individuals could let them more efficiently spend their advertising dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a traditional TV buy you can end up paying for a lot of eyeballs you don\u2019t care about,\u201d said Chauncey McLean, chief operating officer of the Analytics Media Group, an ad and data firm. \u201cAddressable TV is a powerful tool for those that are equipped to use it. If you know who you want to talk to and what you want to say, you can be much more precise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Data geeks look at everything from voting histories to demographics, magazine subscriptions to credit scores, all in the hopes of identifying their target audience. The advertiser then hands over a list of targets and, without the viewer necessarily realizing it, the ads pop on when viewers sit down to watch a program if their broadcaster has the technology.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2014\/02\/17\/new-technology-allows-for-tv-ads-targeting-specific-individuals-families\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read complete article at CBS DC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CBS DC New Technology Allows For TV Ads to Target Specific Individuals,\u00a0Families WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014 The days when political campaigns would try to make inroads with demographic groups such as soccer moms or white working-class voters are gone. Now, the operatives are targeting specific individuals. And, in some places, they can reach those individuals directly through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}