[privacy] UK: 3 Internet Providers in Deal for Targeted Ads

[Paul Ferguson]

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Via The New York Times.

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For years, Internet service providers have watched with envy as the likes
of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft sliced up the online advertising pie.
Selling Internet access has been a good business, but selling Web
advertising has been an even more lucrative one.

Now, three Internet providers in Britain have teamed up to try to obtain a
piece of online advertising for themselves. The three companies — BT,
Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media — announced a deal last week with a
company called Phorm, whose technology tracks Web users and sends them ads
related to their interests.

Phorm said it would set up a new online advertising platform called the
Open Internet Exchange, which any Web site would be allowed to join.
Proceeds from ads shown on these publishers’ sites will be shared with
BT, Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media, which together represent more than
two-thirds of Britain’s Internet access market.

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More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/technology/18target.html

- - ferg

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