Gadget offers salvation from TV ads

Categories:
Somehow related:
Recent articles:

Please install Flash® and turn on Javascript.

Bring me home, please

A digital device to be launched today in the UK apparently allows "addressable advertising" - only showing commercials viewers want to watch.

family.jpg

Its developer, Packet Vision, claims the PV1000 could be the saviour of TV advertising because it screens different adverts to different TV viewers during the same ad break, showing commercials relevant to viewers. The device works with TV delivered via broadband, also known as internet protocol TV.

TV companies would programme the PV1000 with demographic information about their subscribers: where they live, what they watch, and any other marketing information available.

Of course the technology would have to overcome privacy restrictions to create a top-class demographic database.

The company does not plan to seriously market the device until next year.

Via The Guardian. Images of the device.

2 TrackBacks

Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Gadget offers salvation from TV ads.

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/4939

» Daily Click 09.09.05 from My Aim Is True

Apple presents the impossibly small iPod Nano. Wow. And I guess I should also mention the iTunes phone. Meh. The iPod Updater 9/6/05 is available. How to get a human on the phone when you reach an automated system.... Read More

» Daily Click 09.09.05 from My Aim Is True

Apple presents the impossibly small iPod Nano. Wow. And I guess I should also mention the iTunes phone. Meh. The iPod Updater 9/6/05 is available. How to get a human on the phone when you reach an automated system.... Read More

Sponsored by:



sponsored by: