Academic Report
‘The Benefits and Drawbacks of Cookies’
Jeff Andrew (B00107736)
Department of Business
School of Business & Humanities
Institute of Technology Blanchardstown
Dublin 15
[Word limit for assignment: 1500 Actual word count: [1560]
Digital Enterprise/Semester one
Personal Development-
Digital Marketing
29th November 2017
Essay #3: Cookies are widely used to track consumers and profile their preferences and interests. Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the use of cookies for both businesses and consumers.
Introduction:
Cookies have become an online phenomenon. They have many benefits and drawbacks for both businesses and consumers in modern society. Everyone that has access to the internet, a phone or laptop and uses the Google search engine to browse for their content of interest, is prone to the implementation of cookies on their virtual profiles. Cookies are controversially beneficial to businesses more so than consumers; however, consumers do get suggestions/advertisements of the content they are interested in occasionally.
Consumers often use a search engine such as Google to browse for content that applies to their lifestyle, interests, hobbies and career focused information. Every search that is carried out by a consumer, on any browser, is monitored and recorded. This data is collected using a size 1x1 bit code labelled cookies, that acts
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Prior research has reported that online consumers are often confused about the pros and cons of cookies, also that most are not able to properly identify what a cookie is (Ha et al. 2006; Hoofnagle 2005). Many consumers are not aware of numerous technologies that they can use online which can reduce the invasion of privacy through cookies, at no extra
Consider an e-business site that needs to keep a buy record for each of its clients. Depict how this can be done with cookies.
This section discuss about the common traits or ideas observed in the three research topics. Although, each of the three articles discuss a unique idea, all of them are aimed at utilizing the web data to produce better results. Web data mining is a hot research topic in the current realm of big data. These papers discuss about the utilization of the valuable user generated data from the social media or the browser cookies to provide the best user experience in order to maintain the user interest in the company's product or to take effective decisions by an individual. All the three articles propose an idea to solution the problem stated, compared their results to the existing models and showed significant improvement.
Here we discuss about the common traits or ideas observed in the three research topics. Although, these three papers discuss about different ideas, they all fall under the web data mining domain. web data mining is a hot research topic in the current realm of big data. These papers discuss about the utilisation of the valuable user generated data from the social media or the the browser cookies to provide the best user experience in order to maintain the user interest in the company's product or to take effective decisions by the individual.
A website places a cookie on your computer to remember certain data so it may run smoother when you return to the site, some government’s collect data to collect data for national security, Google can also collect data to send to marketing companies.
Cookies are used to collect the information about your visit to the website. This information can be used in many ways for the multiple devices to monitor and maintain the information about the visitors to our website. Some visitors may set the browser not to accept the cookies or notify when you receive the cookies for deciding whether to accept the cookies. If you do not accept the cookies then you will not experience any visit orelse you have to subscribe the service offerings on this website. These cookies play an important role for providing the good customer experience.
In Jim Harper’s essay “Web Users Get as Much as They Give” (546), he states that “Most web sites track users, particularly through the use of cookies, little text files placed on Web surfers’ computers. Sites use cookies to customize a visitor’s experience.” This does make it hard to have privacy, but what Harper may not have considered is the good things about the cookies being stored. If someone were looking something up and they press the “stay logged in” button, they could close their browser and start back up where they left off, by staying logged in. This helps people who have a bad memory, or who browse the web frequently without remembering all the sites they
Websites can learn what types of products interest you. They use things called cookies, which can put your privacy at great risk. Cookies are pieces of information passed between an internet server and a user’s web browser(Cunningham 52). Cookies also obtain information about the user an his or her computer(Cunningham 52). The website using cookies will be able to determine the users Internet Protocol (IP) address, the type
We optimize engagement, conversion and retention by offering a multi-channel, interactive, inbound marketing approach through a hyper-personalized, hyper-targeted experience. My marketing technology targets people's desktops and mobile devices with video ads without the use of cookie data. Cookie data relies on consumers visiting a website first; however, our tech targets consumers before they visit your website or your competitors. The technology dominates PMA's, Conquest and databases for fixed and variable operations. We can target 95% of your audience's devices in a matter of
v) We need to consider business strategy: will the process capacity be higher if Kristen offers only non-customized cookies of one type? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this alternative strategy compared to what Kristen now plans?
At a very young age, I remember becoming a divination scout, it was probably one of the proudest moments of my life. Unfortunately, this was not the case during the cookie sales- I would flash a bright smile, but would always be met with faces of repugnance.
The Internet?s leading advertising company, DoubleClick, Inc. compiled thorough information on the browsing routine of millions of users. They
As part of its marketing and branding efforts, H&M developed a social media strategy; a key component of which states that ‘’through the effective use of social media, millions of H&M fans and followers share ideas and opinions and get quick answers to their queries.” (H&M, 2014) This allows the company to get closer to its customers, allowing for better communication and feedback, and more useful marketing data. H&M collects massive amounts of raw information through the use of such data analysis tools as Google Analytics and Core Metrics, this is known as “cookies.” These are text files that are created every time you visit a particular website, and they can contain useful and valuable information about your interests and shopping habits. ‘’Previous purchases are often the single best guide to what a customer will buy next’’ (Davenport et al, 2011) This gives H&M the information to strategically target individuals through social media advertising creating what seems like a personal approach.
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include .......
Explain why cookies are useful in an environment that is based on a stateless protocol, and provide some concrete examples of their use. See page 296 (2 points)
Advertising has changed significantly since the introduction of the Internet. In the past, advertising mediums such as radio, print, and television ads dominated companies’ marketing plans. As the Internet gained prevalence, more and more of companies’ money has been siphoned into email, social media, and Pay Per Click advertising. In recent years, this has led to marketers placing more and more weight on analysis like Click Through Rate, Cost Per Click, and Cost Per Acquisition. All of these terms exist within the world of Pay Per Click advertising, which has become one of the most prominent forms of advertising on the internet. Due to society’s increased reliance on the Internet, Pay Per Click advertising will continue to grow for years to come.