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16 Jan '11, 10pm

Contextual ads: Everyone, click 'Like'

Sixteen time zones away, snatches of a panel discussion on ordering pizzas had yanked me from my jet-lag stupor to focus my mind on a hairy issue: Should I be impressed by an online advertisement to remove body hair? The discussion on contextual media was a parallel track to the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show 2011. A fairly distinguished panel had gathered to talk about how media, advertisers and content creators are now managing a complex universe containing millions of individual preferences. The talk turned to the topic of contextual advertising, now regarded as something of a Holy Grail for Silicon Valley. It is a tech parlance which basically means displaying ads on a website based on the content shown to the user. The ad pushing is entirely automated, and big money is being poured into the technology to ensure they are "in context" with the content. Most of us h...

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