Google Plans To Show Ads Through Thermostats, Cars…

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google-car-adsScience fiction got a few things right.

Our home appliances are becoming intelligent, drones are flying through the skies and cars are starting to drive themselves. But they can’t fly – yet.

But it seems science fiction thinkers may have missed one big and possibly frightening (or annoying) prediction: that these devices would be another place for advertising.

According to a December letter sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which became public on Tuesday, Google hopes to put ads “on refrigerators, car dashboards, thermostats, glasses, and watches, to name just a few possibilities.”

How would this work? Imagine that it’s a cold winter day. The snow starts floating down, a wind kicks up and you go to your thermostat to kick up the heat. In Google’s world, that action could be met with an advertisement on your thermostat for a new wool sweater.

Google said in its S.E.C. filing that this plan to advertise in places beyond the desktop and cellphones came about partly because the company expects people to be using several different kinds of Google services and products in the near future. If that is the case, which it probably is, the company said its advertising would be able to follow customers between those experiences.

Google hopes to offer advertisers a new feature called “Enhanced Campaigns,” which are advertisements that can be aimed at people across several kinds of devices or experiences, including cellphones, cars or thermostats.

“Enhanced Campaigns allows our advertisers to write one ad campaign, which we serve dynamically to the right user at the right time on whatever device makes the most sense,” Google wrote in the filing. “Because users will increasingly view ads and make purchase decisions on and across multiple devices, our view of revenue is similarly device-agnostic.”

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4 COMMENTS

  1. That all we need to turn our house into an ad campaign
    When will this invasion stop
    Enough unless they pay us cash for bill board space

  2. Science fiction did get it right, and even more advanced than Google. See “Minority Report”.

    What Google doesn’t realize is that most people ignore the ads. Sites like Matzav and others, with there annoying ads all over the place, are good examples. I have yet to make a single purchase based on an ad I saw on the internet.

  3. I think that, that would be an invasion of privacy. I don’t want to be bombarded with ads every time I raise the thermostat or open the refrigerator. I am sure most people wouldn’t want it either. It’s enough to have ads on radio, TV, internet etc.

  4. #2 you may be right! You feel bombarded by ads.

    However you are wrong regarding the effectiveness of advertising.

    If you thought ads make you go out and buy something, you would be very mistaken!

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