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Real-time bidding has emerged as an effective online advertising technique. With real-time bidding, advertisers can position ads per impression, enabling them to optimise ad campaigns by targeting specific audiences in real-time. This paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Parikshit Sharma

In online display advertising, guaranteed contracts and real-time bidding (RTB) are two major ways to sell impressions for a publisher. Despite the increasing popularity of RTB, there is still half of online display advertising revenue…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Di Wu , Cheng Chen , Xun Yang , Xiujun Chen , Qing Tan , Jian Xu , Kun Gai

Incrementality, which is used to measure the causal effect of showing an ad to a potential customer (e.g. a user in an internet platform) versus not, is a central object for advertisers in online advertising platforms. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru , Zhe Feng , Tianxi Li , Haifeng Xu

Display advertising is an important online advertising type where banner advertisements (shortly ad) on websites are usually measured by how many times they are viewed by online users. There are two major channels to sell ad views. They can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Bowei Chen

The optimization of bidding strategies for online advertising slot auctions presents a critical challenge across numerous digital marketplaces. A significant obstacle to the development, evaluation, and refinement of real-time autobidding…

We propose a new Markov Decision Process (MDP) model for ad auctions to capture the user response to the quality of ads, with the objective of maximizing the long-term discounted revenue. By incorporating user response, our model takes into…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yang Cai , Zhe Feng , Christopher Liaw , Aranyak Mehta , Grigoris Velegkas

We study and formulate arbitrage in display advertising. Real-Time Bidding (RTB) mimics stock spot exchanges and utilises computers to algorithmically buy display ads per impression via a real-time auction. Despite the new automation, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Weinan Zhang , Jun Wang

Online bidding serves as a fundamental information system in mobile ecosystems, facilitating real-time ad allocation across billions of devices while optimizing both platform performance and user experience through data-driven decision…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Huanyu Yan , Yu Huo , Min Lu , Weitong Ou , Xingyan Shi , Ruihe Shi , Xiaoying Tang

Diverse and enriched data sources are essential for commercial ads-recommendation models to accurately assess user interest both before and after engagement with content. While extended user-engagement histories can improve the prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Sohini Roychowdhury , Doris Wang , Qian Ge , Joy Mu , Srihari Reddy

We examine trade-offs among stakeholders in ad auctions. Our metrics are the revenue for the utility of the auctioneer, the number of clicks for the utility of the users and the welfare for the utility of the advertisers. We show how to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Yoram Bachrach , Sofia Ceppi , Ian A. Kash , Peter Key , David Kurokawa

Traditional auction theory posits that bid value exhibits a positive correlation with the probability of securing the auctioned object in ascending auctions. However, under uncertainty and incomplete information, as is characteristic in…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-12-19 Dipankar Das

Brand advertising plays a critical role in building long-term consumer awareness and loyalty, making it a key objective for advertisers across digital platforms. Although real-time bidding has been extensively studied, there is limited…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuanlong Chen , Bowen Zhu , Bing Xia , Yichuan Wang

The ad-trading desks of media-buying agencies are increasingly relying on complex algorithms for purchasing advertising inventory. In particular, Real-Time Bidding (RTB) algorithms respond to many auctions -- usually Vickrey auctions --…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-20 Joaquin Fernandez-Tapia , Olivier Guéant , Jean-Michel Lasry

Given the massive market of advertising and the sharply increasing online multimedia content (such as videos), it is now fashionable to promote advertisements (ads) together with the multimedia content. It is exhausted to find relevant ads…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Huaizheng Zhang , Yong Luo , Qiming Ai , Yonggang Wen

In online advertising markets, budget-constrained advertisers acquire ad placements through repeated bidding in auctions on various platforms. We present a strategy for bidding optimally in a set of auctions that may or may not be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Fransisca Susan , Negin Golrezaei , Okke Schrijvers

Online advertising is progressively moving towards a programmatic model in which ads are matched to actual interests of individuals collected as they browse the web. Letting the huge debate around privacy aside, a very important question in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Panagiotis Papadopoulos , Nicolas Kourtellis , Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez , Nikolaos Laoutaris

In digital advertising, Click-Through Rate (CTR) and Conversion Rate (CVR) are very important metrics for evaluating ad performance. As a result, ad event prediction systems are vital and widely used for sponsored search and display…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Saeid Soheily Khah , Yiming Wu

The rapid advances in e-commerce and Web 2.0 technologies have greatly increased the impact of commercial advertisements on the general public. As a key enabling technology, a multitude of recommender systems exists which analyzes user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Nikhita Vedula , Wei Sun , Hyunhwan Lee , Harsh Gupta , Mitsunori Ogihara , Joseph Johnson , Gang Ren , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

In online advertising, auto-bidding has become an essential tool for advertisers to optimize their preferred ad performance metrics by simply expressing high-level campaign objectives and constraints. Previous works designed auto-bidding…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Chao Wen , Miao Xu , Zhilin Zhang , Zhenzhe Zheng , Yuhui Wang , Xiangyu Liu , Yu Rong , Dong Xie , Xiaoyang Tan , Chuan Yu , Jian Xu , Fan Wu , Guihai Chen , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Bo Zheng

In recent years, RTB(Real Time Bidding) becomes a popular online advertisement trading method. During the auction, each DSP(Demand Side Platform) is supposed to evaluate current opportunity and respond with an ad and corresponding bid…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-29 Huahui Liu , Mingrui Zhu , Xiaonan Meng , Yi Hu , Hao Wang