Study: Online Ad Value Spikes When Data Is Used to Boost Relevance
Ads with cookies are up to seven times more valuable, and smaller Web sites benefit disproportionately from the value those ads create
WASHINGTON – February 10, 2014 – Online advertising that uses cookie technology to increase relevance by leveraging consumers' information generates significantly greater economic value than advertising without cookies, according to an economic study by Professors Howard Beales and Jeffrey Eisenach of Navigant Economics. This new research has important implications for publishers, ad technology firms, agencies, advertisers, consumers and policy makers.