A method for transacting an advertisement transfer is disclosed which
facilitates expressing the rate structure for the individual
advertisement as a function of a profile of the individual potential
customer; and which is directed to the creation of a mechanism from the
vantage of an Internet site that is being visited. It should be
appreciated that this must include the participation of other entities in
the Internet (such as distributors, clients, intermediary agencies,
etc.). The method is for transacting an advertisement transfer, from an
advertisement distributor to a visitor, the method including, upon the
occurrence of a visitor visitation at a communications node, the
communication node performing the steps of: constructing a visitor
profile; broadcasting the profile to at least one distributor; collecting
responses from the at least one distributor; selecting a response from
the at least one responding distributor; contracting, between the node
and the at least one distributor of the selected response, a transference
of an advertisement from the distributor to the visitor; and effecting a
transfer of the advertisement to the visitor.