In five related studies we examined the efficacy
of psychographic targeting and marketing in the context of ideologically motivated campaigns.
To get to grips with the complex issue
of psychographic targeting online, Sumner and his colleagues created four experiments.
Kaiser's company worked with Ted Cruz's campaign this cycle, gaining attention for its use
of psychographic targeting, particularly ahead of the Iowa Caucuses.
Not exact matches
We used to buy sites, or groups
of sites that we anticipated our
target was likely to be hanging out on based on their demographic or
psychographic profile.
Buyer personas are fictitious representations
of your
target buyers, incorporating not just demographic data, but
psychographic and behavioral insight as well.
That's because most media buyers treat
psychographic data — the kind
of data used by Cambridge Analytica to
target audiences — with skepticism.
Companies like Aimclear explain how
psychographics are expected to eat the traditional display ad budget by showing how much
of typical display ad spend is wasted attempting to reach the wrong people and how much less can be spent with Facebook's detailed behavior
targeting.
As part
of an aggressive new voter -
targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «
psychographic profiles»
of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.
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.
I first learned about Cambridge Analytica because it was involved in the invasive data collection and
targeting practices
of the Ted Cruz presidential campaign, for which Cambridge Analytica used its mythologized
psychographic profiling and
targeting capabilities.
When optimizing for conversion, it is critical to gain some perspective into the
psychographics of your
target audience, and also understand the most common segments
of search intent.
Data experts I've talked with generally say that
psychographic models can be useful in your first rounds
of outreach, since they should give you at least an idea
of whom to
target.
As part
of an aggressive new voter -
targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «
psychographic profiles»
of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.
At first, Cruz campaign officials credited Cambridge's «
psychographic targeting» techniques — including its use
of Facebook data — with elevating Cruz to the top tier
of presidential hopefuls.
Part
of the work that Cambridge Analytica performed for Bolton's super PAC was
psychographic voter
targeting, which the company claimed could profile voters on the basis
of certain characteristics.
Part
of the work the firm performed for Bolton's super PAC was
psychographic voter
targeting that it claimed could profile voters based on certain characteristics.
At the heart
of the debate is
psychographic targeting — the directing
of political campaigns at people via social media based on their personality and political interests.
About 30 million
of those (a number previously reported by The Intercept) contained enough information for Cambridge Analytica to match profiles with other data and complete its «
psychographic» work — learning about individuals and trying to
target them with personally tailored messages.
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.
One
of its key selling points is its embed service, which puts its PhDs in seats at campaign HQs, helping campaign staff to massage ad creative and language to best apply Cambridge's signature
psychographic targeting to television and online video ads in addition to other campaign messaging.
Cambridge Analytica also used its «
psychographic» tools to make
targeted online ad buys for the Brexit «Leave» campaign, the 2016 presidential campaign
of Ted Cruz, and the 2016 Trump campaign.
The company, which burst onto the American political scene in 2012, boasts
of its ability to assemble so - called
psychographic profiles
of American voters based on five dominant personality traits — openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism — and to
target them with uniquely crafted messages based on their unconscious biases.
Regarding one key public concern, though, Kogan's numbers suggest that information on users» personalities or «
psychographics» was just a modest part
of how the model
targeted citizens.
Cruz has largely built his program out
of his Houston headquarters, where a team
of statisticians and behavioral psychologists who subscribe to the burgeoning practice
of «
psychographic targeting» built their own version
of a Myers - Briggs personality test.
If CA had been able to hand the Trump communications team a detailed
psychographic assessment
of every
targeted voter, the practical response would have been a bit like Henry Ford's old comment: «The customer can have any color he wants so long as it's black.»
Psychographic targeting is made easy via big data analytics, the treasure troves
of readily available metadata curated by dragnet surveillance capitalists, and a legislative body that lacks the understanding
of the dangers
of its weaponization.
Where conventional political advertising uses crude demographic factors like age and ZIP code to
target advertising, Cambridge supposedly used a technique called
psychographics, which involves building a detailed psychological profile
of a user that will allow a campaign to predict exactly what kind
of appeal will be most likely to convince any particular voter.
Chinese companies and threat actors are collecting vast stores
of psychographic and demographic data that can be leveraged by Big Data machine learning algorithms to produce insights that facilitate information warfare against populations, Counterintelligence operations against Intelligence assets, and precision -
targeted attacks against critical infrastructure executives.
His group replicated the methods
of psychographic profiling over two years, firstly examining differences in personality traits, thinking styles and cognitive biases between voters in the UK's 2016 EU referendum and then devising their own campaign to test whether it might be possible to identify,
target and influence voters.
This kind
of message
targeting didn't require using purloined Facebook user data to build
psychographic profiles
of voters.
The company used it to create
psychographic profiles
of about 30 million US voters and
target political ads toward them.
Part
of the work the firm performed for Bolton's super PAC was
psychographic voter
targeting that it claimed could profile voters based on certain characteristics.
Sometimes the abuse is malicious and opportunistic, as it was when Cambridge Analytica used an API designed to help people recommend relevant job openings to friends to purposefully harvest data that populated
psychographic profiles
of voters so they could be swayed with
targeted messaging.
Psychographics, suddenly in the news after the Cambridge Analytica - Facebook controversy exploded, is a fairly well - defined concept — psychological profiling
of target groups that helps to understand them better so corporates can make better sales pitches for their products, and governments can tailor their schemes and customise political campaigns.
More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions
of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building
psychographic profiles
of Americans to
target election messages for the Trump campaign.
He admits CA used
psychographic targeting of Americans «all through the 2014 midterms» and all through the Cruz and Carson primaries.
It will feature case studies «with a lot
of real examples
of artwork and
targeting and
psychographics and so forth to illustrate them.»
The firm allegedly used data illegitimately scraped from Facebook to build «
psychographic» profiles
of American voters and
target them with propaganda.
In a paper published last year in the journal Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences, researchers used
psychographic targeting on 3.5 million Facebook users.
Cambridge Analytica, the political marketing firm that claims to use
psychographic profiling to
target individual voters, got hold
of the profiles
of 87 million Facebook users - not 50 millionas it has suggested.
v3.co.uk - Cambridge Analytica, the political marketing firm that claims to use
psychographic profiling to
target individual voters, got hold
of the profiles
of 87 million Facebook users - not 50 millionas it has suggested.
The effectiveness
of Cambridge Analytica's
psychographic targeting, which attempted to influence voters by mapping out their Facebook Likes, is highly suspect and likely overstated.
On the other side
of the equation, he says sellers will be able to use big data to input highly accurate specs for their home and neighbourhood and then
target an increasingly select group
of «ideal» buyers with matching
psychographic profiles — it'll become clearer who to
target and how to
target them.