Methods and systems for planning advertising campaigns
First Claim
1. In a system, including at least one processor, configured to display advertisements associated with an advertising campaign, a method for scheduling the advertising campaign to achieve an advertising impression goal, the method comprising:
- a step for receiving historical data at a planning module, the historical data representing a number and a type of a plurality of advertising impressions of advertisements viewed by one or more target viewers;
a step for retrieving existing campaign data representing the number of the plurality of advertising impressions of the advertisements scheduled for future display to the one or more target viewers; and
a step for combining the historical data and the existing campaign data to generate a schedule of available advertising inventory, the schedule usable by an advertiser to reserve advertising inventory of the available advertising inventory for the advertising campaign so that the advertising impression goal for the advertising campaign is achieved within the timeframe and among the one or more target viewers selected by the advertiser.
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Abstract
A system, including a planning module, a control module and a receiver module, configured to schedule display of advertisements to achieve an advertising impression goal. The planning module enables scheduling of advertising impressions in accordance with target criteria. Further, the planning module enables selecting an advertising impression goal for advertisements, assigning an advertising type and defining a weight for the advertisement. The control module receives the schedule, the advertising type and the defined weights and generates one or more metadata files that contain target criteria, advertising type and weights for the advertisement. The one or more metadata files and advertising content for the advertisement, are delivered to the receiver module that is configured to define a display frequency for the advertising content based upon one or more of the metadata files. The receiver module selectively displays the advertising content of the advertisement to achieve the advertising impression goal.
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43 Claims
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1. In a system, including at least one processor, configured to display advertisements associated with an advertising campaign, a method for scheduling the advertising campaign to achieve an advertising impression goal, the method comprising:
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a step for receiving historical data at a planning module, the historical data representing a number and a type of a plurality of advertising impressions of advertisements viewed by one or more target viewers;
a step for retrieving existing campaign data representing the number of the plurality of advertising impressions of the advertisements scheduled for future display to the one or more target viewers; and
a step for combining the historical data and the existing campaign data to generate a schedule of available advertising inventory, the schedule usable by an advertiser to reserve advertising inventory of the available advertising inventory for the advertising campaign so that the advertising impression goal for the advertising campaign is achieved within the timeframe and among the one or more target viewers selected by the advertiser. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A computer program product for implementing, in a system that includes at least one processor and is configured to display advertisements associated with an advertising campaign, a method for scheduling the advertising campaign to achieve an advertising impression goal, the computer program product comprising:
a computer readable medium carrying computer executable instructions for implementing the method, the computer executable instructions, when executed, performing;
a step for receiving historical data at a planning module, the historical data representing a number and a type of a plurality of advertising impressions of advertisements viewed by one or more target viewers;
a step for retrieving existing campaign data representing the number of the plurality of advertising impressions of the advertisements scheduled for future display to the one or more target viewers; and
a step for combining the historical data and the existing campaign data to generate a schedule of reservable advertising inventory for the advertising campaign, the schedule being useable by an advertiser to plan one or more advertising campaigns that achieve an advertising impression goal within a timeframe and among the one or more target viewers selected by the advertiser. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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21. In a system, including at least one processor, configured to schedule the display of an advertisement from an available advertising inventory of advertising impressions, a method for weighting scheduled advertisements, the method comprising:
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a step for identifying an advertising impression goal for the display of an advertisement to at least one target viewer; and
a step for defining a weight for the advertisement based upon the advertising impression goal and the available advertising inventory, the weight defining the display frequency of the advertisement to achieve the advertising impression goal.
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27. In a system, including at least one processor, configured to schedule an advertising campaign for displaying an advertisement to one or more target viewers in accordance with an advertising impression goal, a method for weighting a scheduled advertising campaign, the method comprising:
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a step for identifying one or more advertising impression goals for one or more advertising campaign; and
a step for defining a weight for each advertising campaign of the one or more advertising campaigns, the weight defining the display frequency of the advertisement to achieve the advertising impression goal and further being either an absolute weight or a relative weight.
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32. In a system, including at least one processor, configured to schedule an advertising campaign for displaying an advertisement to one or more target viewers in accordance with an advertising impression goal, a method for weighting a scheduled advertising campaign, the method comprising:
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a step for defining one or more target attributes for one or more advertising campaigns, each advertising campaign of the one or more advertising campaigns comprising a unique combination of the one or more attributes;
a step for defining a weight for each advertising campaign of the one or more advertising campaigns, the weight for each advertising campaign defining the display frequency of the advertisement associated with the advertising campaign to achieve the advertising impression goal.
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