Treading on that Fine Line? - Caselets in Marketing Ethics
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Case Details:
Case Code : MKTG186
Case Length : 14 pages
Period : 2006-2008
Pub Date : 2008
Teaching Note :Not Available
Organization : Emami Ltd.; Pfizer Inc.; Facebook.
Industry : Fast Moving Consumer Goods; Pharmaceutical; Social Media.
Countries : India/ USA
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"Facebook Ads represent a completely new way of
advertising online. For the last hundred years media has been pushed out to
people, but now marketers are going to be a part of the conversation. And
they're going to do this by using the social graph in the same way our users
do."48
- Mark Zuckerberg (Zuckerberg), Founder and CEO, Facebook,
in 2007.
"The new advertising system will target ads
based on personal information shared by users with their friends...
It also reeks of unethical practices since when these users joined Facebook
they were not told or given the chance to opt out and state that
their personal information like interests, relationship status, work
history, etc. should not be used."49
- Sujatha Ganesan, a Business and Technology
Lawyer, in 2007.
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On November 06, 2007, Mark Zuckerberg (Zuckerberg), the
founder and CEO of Facebook50 introduced an ad system called Facebook Ads to
connect business houses with Facebook users. As of November 2007, Facebook had
55 million active registered users, and was the second fastest growing social
networking site, with an astounding year-on-year growth rate of 133 percent51.
This new system was expected to facilitate offering of better targeted
advertisements to the users. According to Zuckerberg, the new ad platform would
provide a very different way of online advertising as it would give the
advertiser a chance to 'be a part of the conversation' by using the 'social
graph' in the same way as the Facebook users did...
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Exhibits
Exhibit I: A Packshot of 'Fair and Handsome'
Exhibit II: A Banner Ad of Shahrukh Khan Promoting 'Fair and Handsome' in Fairandhandsome.Net
Exhibit III: Packshot of Lipitor
Exhibit IV: Global Sales of Lipitor: 2000-2006
Exhibit V: Brand Page of Coca-Cola on Facebook
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