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The effectiveness of cross-platform targeted advertising strategy

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This study examines the effectiveness of cross-platform targeted advertising (CPTA), referring to the phenomenon that a platform (the advertiser) cooperates with another platform (the host) to retarget consumers through targeted advertising. Using a game-theoretic framework, we find that, first, the advertiser optimally sets a medium precision for its advertising, because an excessively high precision would discourage the cooperation between the advertiser and the host. Second, the moderate targeting precision motivates the advertiser to adopt CPTA. Third, when the precision level is relatively low, CPTA may make the host better off at the expense of the advertiser, in which case the advertiser would like to advertise by itself. Fourth, CPTA is always good to the host as well as the seller participating in the advertiser’s platform. Finally, there exists a Pareto zone wherein the advertiser, the host and the seller can formulate a win–win–win situation under CPTA.

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This work was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (71871054, 72171103); Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (KYCX21_0169); China Scholarship Council (202106090236).

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  1. School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China

    Juan Liu, Weijun Zhong & Shu’e Mei

  2. School of Business, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China

    Jianqiang Zhang

  3. The Institute for National Security and Green Development, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China

    Jianqiang Zhang

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Liu, J., Zhong, W., Zhang, J. et al. The effectiveness of cross-platform targeted advertising strategy. Electron Commer Res (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-022-09659-0

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