‘Facebook to Serve Up Ads Based on Your Offline Shopping Habits’ – ‘Mashable’

Todd Wasserman says, “Facebook will now be able to target some ads based on your offline shopping habits thanks to some partnerships it announced on Wednesday.

The social networking giant has inked a deal with data mining firms Datalogix, Acxiom and Epsilon that will apply their records about customers’ offline purchases to Facebook’s Custom Audiences product. Facebook is also working with BlueKai “as a marketing data platform to bring a brand’s first party site data to use for targeting on Facebook,” according to the company. Custom Audiences, which was released last August, lets advertisers identify Facebook users by their Facebook ID, phone number or email address. Now, advertisers can match that information with data from the firms, which was gleaned through shopper loyalty programs”.