EA has announced a new service called EA Legend, designed not for consumers but to provide marketers with information about how players are using and engaging with EA products and their related advertisers. For example, EA would be able to provide advertisers with information about their users on iOS apps, Facebook games, and even online and other console games where advertising takes place, and those advertisers and marketers would then be able to figure out when and where best to reach the audience they want.
EA's Senior VP of Global Media Solutions Dave Madden says that the company has increased its reach by 30% in the past year, and that EA Legend will help advertisers break that audience down, and give them "actionable insights across all of our platforms and a complete view into how their campaigns are driving engagement with consumers."
In other words, EA's got your eyeballs, and EA Legend will help advertisers buy them. EA is premiering the service at next week's Advertising Week conference in New York City.
Reader Comments (16)
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 6:07AM SamuraisShadow said
Big Brother is watching you.
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 8:26AM foxhound said
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Posted: Sep 30th 2011 10:01AM (Unverified) said
@SamuraisShadow more like Big Brother is profiling you... then marketing items to you based on that profiling. creeeeepy.
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Posted: Sep 30th 2011 6:23AM SSGeorgiecomingthrough said
First came Origins and the corruption of their EULA, then came Legends, specifically to market and analyze gamers.
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 6:58AM Cap Morgan said
@SSGeorgiecomingthrough
All EA is doing is capturing data and providing it to marketers. Any business class will tell you uncaptured data is just a lost resource.
It means easy money for EA without asking gamers for money (ala project ten dollar). IMO it will appease shareholders that EA is trying to milk the cow dry while not putting the squeeze on us.
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All EA is doing is capturing data and providing it to marketers. Any business class will tell you uncaptured data is just a lost resource.
It means easy money for EA without asking gamers for money (ala project ten dollar). IMO it will appease shareholders that EA is trying to milk the cow dry while not putting the squeeze on us.
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 11:08AM Sh1fty said
@Cap Morgan
Some people don't like it when their information, habits and preferences are captured and then sold to third parties.
Even if I'm part of aggregated data and those things can't be linked directly back to me, that's still not information that I want shared with 3rd parties that I did not authorize.
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Some people don't like it when their information, habits and preferences are captured and then sold to third parties.
Even if I'm part of aggregated data and those things can't be linked directly back to me, that's still not information that I want shared with 3rd parties that I did not authorize.
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 10:02PM Valkesh said
@Cap Morgan
That's funny, because doing shit like this is exactly what I would call putting the squeeze on us. And considering they're already charging a $60 price point on the PC release, and have setup plenty of spots in the game for streaming in-game advertising, I have a feeling they're planning on doing that anyway...
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That's funny, because doing shit like this is exactly what I would call putting the squeeze on us. And considering they're already charging a $60 price point on the PC release, and have setup plenty of spots in the game for streaming in-game advertising, I have a feeling they're planning on doing that anyway...
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 6:44AM Nook said
BOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: Sep 30th 2011 8:42AM Starcade said
I like how EA is using the name of former game companies for their services, Origin... Legend... :)
More than likely, Legend will be something that EA will be sued over at some point. People tend not to take lightly to being tracked.
If memory serves there was a similar service a few years ago that got people up in arms.
More than likely, Legend will be something that EA will be sued over at some point. People tend not to take lightly to being tracked.
If memory serves there was a similar service a few years ago that got people up in arms.
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 9:42AM akeso said
I knew there was a reason I didn't have an E.A. account.
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 10:07AM TheSecretMe said
Get the advertisements off of my Xbox and out of my games!!
This is overload, and makes me not want to play games. Hell, I pay for Hulu Plus and still have to watch ads! This is farking stupid!
Boycott EA and Microsoft and Hulu, for starters.
This is overload, and makes me not want to play games. Hell, I pay for Hulu Plus and still have to watch ads! This is farking stupid!
Boycott EA and Microsoft and Hulu, for starters.
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 10:33AM arucious said
Hide Yo kids.... hide jo wives.....hide yo k-....
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 11:03AM Sh1fty said
I really hope this is something I can opt out of for EA products.
As I want nothing to do with this and the less advertisers know about me the better.
As I want nothing to do with this and the less advertisers know about me the better.
Posted: Sep 30th 2011 1:08PM Cranky Penguin said
@Sh1fty Judging by their Origin EULA, there will not be an opt-out. I'm going to have a moral dilemma in March when my EA boycott comes head to head with the release of ME3.
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Posted: Sep 30th 2011 7:39PM RX3115 said
I didn't ask for this.






