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Retargeting Keyword Ads for Potential New Uses

Keyword advertising should be seen as simply one band on the spectrum of online advertising by franchisors and others to promote their brands. Much of that spectrum is now occupied by various types of behavioral advertising, in which advertisers can track conduct of users on the Internet to deliver advertising targeted to a user profile or recent Internet activity. Viewed in this light, a perhaps greater concern to brand owners than the types of sponsored links served by search engines are new opportunities for use of keywords to retarget advertising based on behavioral patterns of Internet users and in manners almost impossible to monitor.

22 minute read December 21, 2010 at 10:18 AM
By
Jonathan E. Moskin
Retargeting Keyword Ads for Potential New Uses

At a recent Practising Law Institute presentation, attended by a solid sampling of intellectual property attorneys, many of whom acknowledged representing major brand-name companies, the author sought a show of hands of those who would recommend that a client bring suit against a third party buying keyword ads based on one of those brands.

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