2014 trend: #Criteo or #Adroll #Retargeting is the new TV commercial. Consumers will reject it. CTR will fall.
Retargeting = displaying ads showing products recently viewed (or related products to the one recently viewed) on other visited websites through ads. An image from AdRoll describe the process. Criteo (a French brand, Cocorico) built a huge success on it. Congrats to them!! I think retargeting success will kill retargeting as it is today. Why? Because it's too much!! If you visit an ecommerce website and see a couple of Nike shoes, then, EVERYWHERE, you'll see shoes you've checked and other ones that look like more or less the same. Whether you buy it or not, whether you checked it for curiosity or really intent to buy, whether it's a present for your wife or your kid who use the same computer as you (argh!!), you'll see EVERYWHERE these ads: on news websites, on Facebook , soon on Twitter , on search engines, etc. These ads are like TV commercial . They bet on repetition ! Here is the bet: If somebody checked Air Max Nike shoes, we can expect that...