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by riskable 858 days ago
It's a simple equation: Money spent on ads will go where the users (ears and eyeballs) are. By providing fine-grained targeting an advertising platform can extract more money from "the long end of the tail" which is where most of the money lives.

The rule for selling ads is: Know your users.

The rule for buying ads is: Know their users.