Online Monitoring Systems to Determine Offline Advertising Effectiveness
First Claim
1. A method performed by one or more computers, the method comprising:
- receiving, by one or more computers, information related to an advertisement for a product, wherein the advertisement is presented through offline media other than a public, packet-switched data network and wherein the information includes an advertising schedule based on which the advertisement is to be presented to a market including consumers;
detecting, by the one or more computers, communications related to the product from the consumers in the market at times in the advertising schedule during which the advertisement is presented, the detected communications received through offline media and a public, packet-switched data network;
collecting, by the one or more computers, data responsive to the detected communications, the data representing a number of consumers in the market from whom the communications related to the product were detected responsive to the advertisement;
determining, by the one or more computers, a statistical correlation between the collected data and the advertising schedule, the statistical correlation representing an effectiveness of presenting the advertisement for the product during the advertising schedule; and
providing, by the one or more computers, a report of the effectiveness based at least in part on the determined statistical correlation.
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for online monitoring systems to determine offline advertising effectiveness. Information related to an advertisement for a product is received. The advertisement is presented through offline media. The information includes an advertising schedule. Communications related to the product that are received from the consumers in the market at the time the advertisement is presented, are detected. Data responsive to the detected communications are collected; the data represent a number of consumers in the market. A statistical correlation between the collected data and the advertising schedule is determined and provided to the advertiser as a report of the effectiveness of the advertising.
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14 Claims
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1. A method performed by one or more computers, the method comprising:
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receiving, by one or more computers, information related to an advertisement for a product, wherein the advertisement is presented through offline media other than a public, packet-switched data network and wherein the information includes an advertising schedule based on which the advertisement is to be presented to a market including consumers; detecting, by the one or more computers, communications related to the product from the consumers in the market at times in the advertising schedule during which the advertisement is presented, the detected communications received through offline media and a public, packet-switched data network; collecting, by the one or more computers, data responsive to the detected communications, the data representing a number of consumers in the market from whom the communications related to the product were detected responsive to the advertisement; determining, by the one or more computers, a statistical correlation between the collected data and the advertising schedule, the statistical correlation representing an effectiveness of presenting the advertisement for the product during the advertising schedule; and providing, by the one or more computers, a report of the effectiveness based at least in part on the determined statistical correlation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer-readable medium encoding software instructions executable by one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
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detecting, for a duration, visits to a website related to a product by consumers in a geographical region, the website identified in an advertisement for the product that is broadcast by a radio station to the geographical region, the duration corresponding to an advertising schedule during which the advertisement is broadcast by the radio station; collecting a number of visits to the website at periodic intervals during the duration based on the advertising schedule; determining an increase in a number of visits to the website in comparison to an average number of visits to the website for each of the periodic intervals during which the number of visits to the website is collected; generating a plot of the increase in the number of visits to the website versus a number of periodic intervals; and providing the generated plot to an advertiser from whom the advertisement was received. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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