Integrated Ad Delivery Planning for Targeted Display Advertising

The Planning of Guaranteed Targeted Display Advertising

As targeted advertising becomes prevalent in a wide variety of media vehicles, planning models become increasingly important to ad networks that need to match ads to appropriate audience segments, provide a high quality of service (meet advertisers’ goals), and ensure that ad serving opportunities are not wasted. We define Guaranteed Targeted Display Advertising (GTDA) as a class of media vehic...

Electronic Companion: Yield Optimization of Display Advertising with Ad Exchange

Targeted Advertising and Advertising Avoidance

I examine how the increasing ability of firms to target their advertisements to particular individuals influences market outcomes when consumers have access to advertising avoidance tools. Today firms possess an unprecedented and rapidly improving ability to discover details about individuals and reach them with advertising based on this information. For instance, as many readers know, an indiv...

Bidding for Representative Allocations for Display Advertising

Display advertising has traditionally been sold via guaranteed contracts – a guaranteed contract is a deal between a publisher and an advertiser to allocate a certain number of impressions over a certain period, for a pre-specified price per impression. However, as spot markets for display ads, such as the RightMedia Exchange, have grown in prominence, the selection of advertisements to show on...

A Unified Framework for the Scheduling of Guaranteed Targeted Display Advertising Under Reach and Frequency Requirements

Motivated by recent trends in online advertising and advancements made by online publishers, we consider a new form of contract which allows advertisers to specify the number of unique individuals that should see their ad (reach), and the minimum number of times each individual should be exposed (frequency). We develop an optimization framework that aims for minimal under-delivery and proper sp...