The subject personalized consumer advertising/ad placement system provides the ability for advertisers, ad agencies, and any other applicable organization to determine and electronically present their ideal consumer profile and have their advertisement/promotion placed in front of all consumers who match the profile based on the anonymous mining of the consumers actual spending across a broad base of spending categories.

Techniques for identifying groups of local features in an image and presenting advertisement information associated with stored images that match one or more features within the group of local features are described. The techniques include providing an image, identifying a region of interest in the image, providing a user-selectable link associated with the region of interest in the image, receiving a request for the region of interest in the image via the user-selectable link, and presenting advertisement information associated with a stored image that matches one or more features within the requested region of interest.

There is provided a method for monitoring of web browser media object(s) received in response to a web browser request rendering a web page, comprising: loading ad-monitoring code with the web page that includes at least one designation for placement of at least one web browser media object received in response to a web browser request by the web browser; monitoring, using the ad-monitoring code, at least one of actions and events driven by the at least one web browser media object; identifying a deviation from a set-of-rules according to an analysis of the monitored at least one of actions and events, wherein the set-of-rules define at least one of allowable and prohibited actions and events of the at least one web browser media object; and at least one of filtering and outputting an indication of the at least one web browser media object identified as deviating from the set-of-rules.

A server receives an indication that a user of a client device has selected social network data associated with a social network provider that maintains a social graph. The selected social network data indicates approval of a coupon offer by the user. In response to receiving the indication, the server computer provides the coupon to the user and sends a link message that causes a user node that is associated with the user to be linked, within the social graph, with a coupon node that is associated with the coupon offer. A message including data associated with the coupon offer is sent to a subset of a set of other users identified, in the social graph that the social network provider maintains, as connected to the user.

Apparatuses and methods are provided for storing information related to objects associated with a hand of a user via a wearable camera system. In one implementation, a wearable apparatus for storing the information is provided comprising a wearable image sensor configured to capture a plurality of images from the environment of the user, and at least one processing device programmed to process the images. The processing device may detect the hand of the user, and an object associated with the user's hand. The processing device may proceed to store information related to the object. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, the stored information may be used for various purposes, such as warning the user of dangers, catering advertising to the user, and helping the user find objects when they are lost.

Advertisements of commodity or service of companies and stores are not easily delivered to customers and readers. Even when the advertisements are delivered with difficulty, the advertisements are lost or discarded without being stored for a long period. Thus, the advertisements are hardly memorized. When conventional four types of mass communication are used, cost effectiveness is poor. When an Internet media is used, it is difficult to attract an attention. Thus, advertising technology capable of exposing individual advertising material while being connected with printing medium and Internet medium is required to cause an action. Calendar numbers are regarded as an advertising medium, advertisements and a calendar are printed integrally on both sides of pages and published. To achieve this, a layout format of combined advertisement for laying out advertisement frames having page numbers or calendar numbers is provided so that the advertisements are invited and laid out on a blank page located at a reverse side of a calendar page. A new advertisement tool is provided to create and bind a catalog calendar (registered trademark) which is an information medium for keeping good relation with customers. A frame number inserted in the advertisement frames is converted to an advertisement number or a commodity/service number. In addition, the calendar numbers and advertisement date numbers are printed on the both sides of the paper and uploaded on the Internet while being in association with each other. Thus, printing, publishing, Internet delivery and commercial transaction are secured by smooth editing technology.

A method for disseminating ads over a communications network is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a plurality of ads to a plurality of terminals, receiving from a terminal a consumer's telephone number/email address/social network handle, a unique ad identifier for a particular ad and a unique terminal identifier, generating and storing a record including the consumer's telephone number/email address/social network handle, the unique ad identifier and the unique terminal identifier, generating a message associated with the particular ad, transmitting to a text message gateway/email server/social network a request to send a message to the consumer's telephone number/email address/social network handle, receiving a request from the consumer's mobile device, accessing the record using the unique record identifier, generating a custom page based on the data from the record, and transmitting the custom page to the consumer's mobile device.

Systems and methods directed advertising via a tagged video stream are provided. Content and a tag associated with a product represented by at least a portion of the content may be received by a media device. The media device may be associated with at least one end user. The content may correspond to television programming. The content may be output by the media device for display. A user selection corresponding to the tag associated with the product represented by at least the portion of the content may be processed by the media device. The user selection may be received during display of at least the portion of the content. Responsive to the user selection, the media device may facilitate provision of information related to the product represented by at least the portion of the content to a second device and/or an account associated with the at least one end user.

Techniques for providing targeted content may be described. In particular, a network-based document may be provided to a computing system of a user in response to a request for information. The network-based document may include the information, an identifier of another network-based document, and code. The code may be configured to, upon execution, determine whether the other network-based document was accessed prior to providing the network-based document. An indication that the other network-based document was accessed may be determined. For example, the indication may be received based on an execution of the code at the computing system. The user may be associated with a user characteristic based on the indication. Further, targeted content may be provided to the computing system based on the user being associated with the user characteristic.

A method for an exchange computer system. Supply data are received from one or more internet publishers, the supply data specifying media space to be supplied to content providers for delivery of the providers' content at future times by respective supplying publishers and compensated in per-delivery charges as respective supplying publishers deliver providers' content over the internet. Request data are received from one or more content providers, the request data specifying requests to acquire media for subsequent display of providers' content, and storing the request data into the memory of the exchange computer. The request data are matched against the supply data to form respective contracts between publishers and content providers for delivery of internet content, and compensation in per-delivery charges as contracted publishers deliver the contracted content providers' content over the internet.