Marketers are currently focused on proper budget allocation to maximize ROI from online advertising. They use conversion attribution models assessing the impact of specific media channels (display, search engine ads, social media, etc.). Marketers use the data gathered from paid, owned, and...

We analyze a large-scale randomized field experiment in which a search engine varied the prominence of search ads for 3.3 million US users: one group of users saw the status quo, while the other saw a lower level of advertising (with prominence of search ads decreased). Revealed preference data...

A large share of the ads displayed by digital publishers (e.g., newspapers and blogs) are sold via intermediaries (e.g., Google), that have large market power and reportedly allocate the ads in an opaque way. We study the incentives of an intermediary to disclose consumer information to...

Understanding how to more effectively advertise is an important area for practitioners, many of whom are struggling to stay in business. Nowadays, both product and corporate branding are important and given the increase in online advertising, additional research to better understand advertising...

Why do some online video advertisements go viral while others remain unnoticed? What kind of video content keeps the viewer interested and motivated to share? Many companies have realized the need to innovate their marketing strategies and have embraced the newest ways of using technology, as...

This work aims to explore in a Mexican context how for two different market segments of age, the digital media (digital magazines) could be a more effective communication channel than the traditional media (printed magazines). With a qualitative approach, it is intended to understand the effects...

The advertising efforts in social networks grow every year. Since their appearance in the late 1990s Social Network Web Sites were considered as a uniform group. The only differentiation factors were the number of users and the amount of traffic passed through the site. This paper classifies the...

Online advertising campaigns often consist of multiple ads, each with different creative content. We propose a model that evaluates the effectiveness of each creative in a campaign given the targeted individual’s ad impression history, as characterized by the timing and mix of previously seen...

It is a well-researched fact that TV advertising is the most effective form of advertising; but this fact is now met with much skepticism. Also, in comparison to TV, the potential of other media such as radio, print and web, are not given due importance. The objective of this study is to compare...

The usage of social networking sites (SNS’s) by advertisers is paramount and the trend is on the rise. The approach of adopting SNS’s suits marketers’ objectives to reach and communicate their users and potential customers with relevant ads and personalized messages. This approach is...