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But if they're having fun with friends, and see display ads for Coke (or GM), then the brand gets associated with their lives.

This points to Facebook as a marketing platform, whereas Google is a sales platform.



True. But from a business perspective, how can Coke or GM quantify whatever they get back from that particular user though? At this point, I don't think they can unless they can tie in a whole bunch of other data which would probably raise privacy flags.




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