In recent years, the field of information and communication technology
has started to change dramatically. Carriers are threatened by high
revenue losses requiring them to identify new revenue potentials beyond
their core business. Targeted advertising can be one of these revenue
opportunities. Christian Schlee provides a broad overview of the latest
developments and trends in targeted advertising in the ICT space. The
author focuses on the technological aspects of targeted advertising, but
also covers business and legal aspects. He analyzes the most interesting
use cases in the Web, IPTV, the mobile environment, and in converged
scenarios and examines important technological key building blocks.