«We are not data harvesters by any stretch of the imagination and, certainly, we don't
do psychographic profiling or profiling of any other type,» he told the House of Commons committee.
«I don't want to break your heart; we actually didn't
do any psychographics with the Trump campaign,» Matt Oczkowski, Cambridge's head of product, said at a postelection panel hosted by Google in December.
So if I'm purchasing an asset located in this area,
does the psychographic profile of the population match the type of tenant I'm looking to find?
Not exact matches
«We don't miss any demographics but we miss one
psychographic — people who can't see the positive side of things,» John Jacobs told me during a recent interview, during which I kept my dark underbelly discreetly cloaked.
But both Brad Parscale, who ran the Trump campaign's data operation, and Matt Oczkowski, the chief product officer for Cambridge Analytica, have said the campaign didn't use
psychographic targeting based on people's personality types.
Moreover, while Facebook offers advertisers the ability to target both demographically (using users» gender and geography) and psychographically (using users» interests and behaviors among other things based on their likes) on its Facebook Ads Manager tool, most buyers don't consider
psychographic traits reliable for ad targeting due to their predictive nature.
But
did we go out and rollout a long form quantitive
psychographics survey specifically for Trump supporters?
So now that we understand what
psychographics are, how
do we go about acquiring them?
He has previously said that the Trump campaign
did not use any
psychographic data from Cambridge Analytica.
That company absolutely nailed the messaging to their target audience (you), and they
did it by understanding both the demographics and
psychographics of their target buyer.
You may not have the luxury of bringing your customers into your office for a face - to - face discussion, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be talking directly to your buyers to figure out some of the
psychographic data you need.
As the Atlantic's David Graham notes, dirty tricks like these don't really have anything to
do with big data or
psychographic personality profiling.
While company officials said they
did not have sufficient time to employ
psychographics in that campaign, they
did data modeling and polling that showed Trump's strength in the industrial Midwest, shaping a homestretch strategy that led to his upset wins in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Cambridge's work for the Cruz campaign ultimately proved uneven, according to campaign officials, who said that while the firm's data scientists were impressive, the
psychographic analysis
did not bear fruit as hoped.
«It's how little work they
did for the Trump campaign and the fact that they
did zero
psychographic data work.»
While company officials said they
did not have sufficient time to employ
psychographics in that campaign, they
did data modeling and polling that showed Trump's strength in the industrial Midwest, shaping a homestretch strategy that led to his upset wins in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
He has previously said that the Trump campaign
did not use any
psychographic data from Cambridge Analytica.
«So what we're telling dealers is, don't look at a demographic; look at a
psychographic.
It's a book hasn't been published yet, it'll come out next month, just talking really in quite technical terms about how communication is changing, what how technology is impacting that, what data is
doing to advertising and political campaigns and then using a lot of case studies with a lot of real examples of artwork and targeting and
psychographics and so forth to illustrate them.
While company officials said they
did not have sufficient time to employ
psychographics in that campaign, they
did data modeling and polling that showed Trump's strength in the industrial Midwest, shaping a homestretch strategy that led to his upset wins in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Brad Parscale, the campaign's digital director, told the Wall Street Journal that the «
psychographic» firm's invoices is «mislabeled» in the FEC filing but he didn't elaborate how or why.
Do its «
psychographic» tools, built with the misused Facebook data, actually work?
He has previously said that the Trump campaign
did not use any
psychographic data from Cambridge Analytica.
Mr. Trump's 2016 campaign digital guru, Brad Parscale, told «60 Minutes» last year that they didn't use the controversial «
psychographic» practice because it «doesn't work.»
Cambridge's work for the Cruz campaign ultimately proved uneven, according to campaign officials, who said that while the firm's data scientists were impressive, the
psychographic analysis
did not bear fruit as hoped.
The claim was widely questioned, and the Trump campaign later said that it didn't rely on
psychographic data from Cambridge Analytica.
While I
do agree that
psychographics and demographics are valuable, they (a) aren't a secret sauce unknown to savvy online marketers and (b) aren't powerful enough alone to sway an election.
But, in a statement after the original publication of the article, the company also claims that it
does not use data from Facebook and hardly used
psychographics at all.
«It's how little work they
did for the Trump campaign and the fact that they
did zero
psychographic data work.»
Using «
psychographic» profiles of individual voters generated from publicly stated interests really
does work, according to new research presented at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.»
When I lived in Moscow I met some girls who worked on KGB honey traps and I've got a lot more confidence in their methodology than I
do in CA's «
psychographics», though unfortunately for Nix, the Moscow approach «doesn't scale» as they say in the Valley.
He said the practice of
psychographics «doesn't work,» but he said he doesn't believe it's «sinister.»
This kind of message targeting didn't require using purloined Facebook user data to build
psychographic profiles of voters.
The data firm started partnering with U.S. political campaigns around 2015 with the promise that it had the ability to
do what it called «
psychographic» targeting, which allowed Cambridge Analytica to create psychological profiles to «effectively engage and persuade voters using specially tailored language and visual ad combinations» that appeal to each person on an emotional level, according to Cambridge Analytica's website.
The «
psychographic» personality profiling the political consulting firm was touting as its flagship offering and which is believed to have relied on the improperly harvested data was refused by the campaign, with some insiders recently stating the technology doesn't even work.
And there was no «long form quantitive
psychographics survey»
done for the Trump campaign.
However, he
did admit that «there's
psychographic data that's baked - in to legacy models that we built before because we're not reinventing the wheel.»
«The work that CA is accused of
doing — building «
psychographic profiles» based on demographics and online behavior in order to figure out how to segment and market to a vulnerable population — is a succinct description of how Facebook makes money,» Ceglowski wrote on Twitter.
«It is actually stunning to think, with the clarity that perspective brings, that you could stand up the kind of ridiculous quiz or survey that they
did and then walk away with
psychographic profiles on 50 million Americans,» Weston muses now.
They don't know their demographics or
psychographics and they have no idea if there's enough potential tenants that might be interested in that particular location.