After being cautious of big data for several years, the marketing and advertising technology sector is adopting it cautiously nowadays. Big data analytics has emerged to be a handy tool for these sectors as it allows a more sophisticated analysis of things to get deeper insights into a consumer's behaviour pattern.  The data is gathered using consumer’s digital footprints like googling and facebook liking etc. Then, this information is used by companies to identify the behaviour of the existing online users to offer them the best targeted deals and services which are specially tailored for them. Therefore, this allows the marketing and advertising sector to create more focused, targeted and, effective campaigns by saving money, targeting the right consumers for the right products and increasing the rate of conversion of the deals offered. Read more at:https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/293678