Paid placements on search engines reached sales of over $10 billion in the U.S. last year and represent the most rapidly growing form of online advertising today. In its classic form, a search engine sets up an auction for each search word in which competing web sites bid for their sponsored links to be displayed next to the search results. We model this advertising market focusing on two of it...

In internet advertising, negative key phrases are used in order to exclude the display of an advertisement to non-target audience. We describe a method for automatically identifying negative key phrases. We use Wikipedia as our sense inventory and as an annotated corpus from which we create context vectors and determine negative phrases, which correlate with negative senses of a positive key ph...

In this paper, we defined a new concept “e-commerce e-marketing”, and focused on six aspects to analyze and study the problems related, such as definition, content, relationship, functions, characteristics, significance and its developing model. First, we analyzed the basic content of e-commerce and e-marketing. Second, we discussed the common features and relationship between e-commerce and e-...

We consider the use of advertising expenses as quality signals in multiproduct firms, extending previous results on single product firms. In our model a firm introduces sequentially two products whose qualities are positively correlated. We investigate whether there exist information spillovers from the first to the second market. We show that, when correlation is high, the equilibrium in marke...

This study demonstrates how semiotics, which constitutes the “linguistic turn” in human sciences, is a powerful tool for revealing concealed meanings in Internet marketing. Semiotics deals with symbols in the form of text and pictures, and also with their underlying meaning. Hence, since Internet marketing makes extensive use of symbols in order to affect product awareness and cultural meaning,...

An economic model of the online advertising market is presented, focusing on the effect of ad fraud. In the model, the market is comprised of three classes of players: publishers, advertising networks, and advertisers. The central question is whether ad networks have an incentive to aggressively combat fraud. The main outcome of the model is to answer this question in the affirmative.

The internet offers advertisers many opportunities for targeting their advertisements. The traditional approach to the demographic targeting of advertisements assumes the existence of internet servers with sufficient homogeneity of visits. The aim of this paper is to identify the variations in internet content consumption habits of different groups of Czech internet users, according to gender a...

Chinese advertising industry has dramatically developed as consumers’ concerns over the impact of environmental degradation on their lives and interests increase, which results in a significant sale of green products. This study aims to explore how green advertising affect consumers purchase intention of green products. The data were collected from 313 consumers in Shanghai, China. The research...

Paid Search algorithms play an important role in online advertising where a set of related ads is returned based on a searched query. The Paid Search algorithms mostly consist of two main steps. First, a given searched query is converted to different sub-queries or similar phrases which preserve the core intent of the query. Second, the generated sub-queries are matched to the ads bidded keywor...