Epsilon CEO Bryan Kennedy Defends Data Mining for Advertising

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60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft interviews Epsilon CEO Bryan Kennedy, who says consumers know they have to give up some privacy to get the benefits of the Internet.

Epsilon provides a broad range of loyalty marketing services spanning database marketing, direct mail, email marketing, web development, loyalty programs, analytics, data services, strategic consulting and creative services, among others. Loyalty programs are sophisticated marketing efforts that reward, and encourage, loyal buying behavior, which is potentially beneficial to the company engaged in loyalty marketing. Retail reward cards are a specific example of loyalty cards.

Epsilon is a subsidiary of Alliance Data Systems Corporation, and was acquired in 2004. Epsilon had previously acquired Aspen Marketing Services, located in West Chicago in 2011.

In late February 2013, Facebook announced partnerships with Epsilon to help reshape its targeted advertising strategy

Steve Kroft investigates the private companies that collect analyze and sell the personal information of millions of Americans.

See also …

www.alliancedata.com

www.aspenms.com

www.epsilon.com

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