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Minority Report -type advertising not so far away
By caffeinegoddess
Created Dec 23 2002 - 18:57

The billboard is listening. [1]

"In an advertising ploy right out of Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report," electronic billboards in the Bay Area and Sacramento are being equipped to profile commuters as they whiz by -- and then instantly personalize freeway ads based on the wealth and habits of those drivers."

These billboards key into the radio station a driver is listening to and then tailor the ads to the suggested demographic.


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Source URL: http://commercial-archive.com/node/7024

Links:
[1] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/12/22/MN242772.DTL
[2] http://technorati.com/tag/advertising news