Video advertisements

• US 8,160,923 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2008
• Issued: 04/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Taylor, Karen Padham, Gupta, Manish, Dulitz, Daniel, Okamoto, Steve, Moonka, Rajas, Wojcicki, Susan
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Jagdish
• Assistant Examiner(s): HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER
• Application Number:
  US12/016,708
• Publication Number:
  US 20090119166A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,551 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1.1, 705/14.4
• US Class Current: 705/14.4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0256 User search
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising

Abstract

A query including one or more keywords is received. An advertisement associated with the one or more keywords is identified, and display data for displaying the advertisement is generated and a determination is made as to whether the advertisement is associated with a video. Video selection data is generated for displaying the video proximate to the advertisement if the advertisement is determined to be associated with the video, and the display data and the video selection data are provided.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

accessing advertising campaign data from an advertiser, wherein the advertising campaign data specify one or more videos selected by the advertiser as being eligible to be displayed with an advertisement of the advertiser;

receiving a query including one or more keywords;

identifying, by the one or more computers, the advertisement as being associated with the one or more keywords;

generating, by the one or more computers, display data for displaying the advertisement;

determining, by the one or more computers, whether the advertisement is associated with a video eligible to be displayed with the advertisement based on the advertising campaign data;

in response to determining that the advertisement is associated with a video eligible to be displayed with the advertisement;

generating, by the one or more computers, video selection data for displaying the video proximate to or within the advertisement; and

providing the display data for displaying the advertisement and

the video selection data for displaying the video; and

in response to determining that the advertisement is not associated with a video eligible to be displayed with the advertisement, providing the display data without video selection data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating, by the one or more computers, video selection data comprises:

generating instructions for a client device; and

providing the instructions to the client device, wherein in response to receiving the instructions the client device displays a video element and displays the video associated with the advertisement proximate to the advertisement in response to a selection of the video element.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

generating video information data for displaying a video information element proximate to the video at the client device; and

providing the video information data to the client device, wherein in response to receiving the video information data and a selection of the video information element, the client device displays video information associated with the video proximate to the video.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the video information element is a tab element and the video information is information associated with a product or service in the video.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising generating a performance metric for the advertisement, wherein the performance metric is a click-through rate derived from a number of users that clicked on the advertisement.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 5, wherein the performance metric is further derived from a number of users that clicked on the video.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising generating a performance metric for user interactions with the video and a separate performance metric for user interactions with the advertisement.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

ranking the advertisement higher than another advertisement based on the campaign data for the advertisement specifying that videos are eligible to be displayed with the advertisement and campaign data for the another advertisement not specifying that videos are eligible to be displayed with the another advertisement.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating search results data for displaying search results responsive to the one or more keywords; and

providing the search results data for displaying the search results, the display data for displaying the advertisement and the video selection data for displaying the video to a client device.

10. A system, comprising:

a data store configured to store advertisements and videos associated with the advertisements, the association based on advertising campaign data associating the advertisements with videos and enabling the display of the videos with the advertisements; and

an advertisement engine comprising instructions executable by a processing system and stored in a computer readable medium, the processing system in data communication with the data store, wherein upon execution the instructions instruct the processing system to;

access advertising campaign data from an advertiser, wherein the advertising campaign data specify one or more videos selected by the advertiser as being eligible to be displayed with a advertisement of the advertiser;

receive a query including one or more keywords;

identify a advertisement associated with the one or more keywords;

generate display data for displaying the advertisement;

determine whether the advertisement is associated with a video eligible to be displayed with the advertisement based on the advertising campaign data;

in response to a determination that the advertisement is associated with a video eligible to be displayed with the advertisement;

generate video selection data for displaying the video proximate to the advertisement; and

provide the display data and the video selection data; and

in response to a determination that the advertisement is not associated with a video eligible to be displayed with the advertisement, provide the display data without video selection data.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the video selection data comprises instructions for a client device;

and

wherein the advertisement engine is further operable to provide the instructions to the client device and in response to receiving the instructions the client device displays a video element and display the video associated with the advertisement proximate to the advertisement in response to a selection of the video element.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the advertisement engine is further operable to:

generate video information data for displaying video information element proximate to the video at a client device; and

provide the video information data to the client device, wherein in response to receiving the video information data and a selection of the video information element, the client device displays video information associated with the video proximate to the video.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the video information element is a tab element and the video information is information associated with a product or service in the video.

14. A system, comprising:

a data processing apparatus configured to;

access advertising campaign data from an advertiser, wherein the advertising campaign data specify one or more videos selected by the advertiser as being eligible to be displayed with an advertisement of the advertiser;

receive a query including one or more keywords;

identify the advertisement as being associated with the one or more keywords;

generate display data for displaying the advertisement;

determine whether the advertisement is associated with a video eligible to be displayed with the identified advertisement based on the advertising campaign data;

in response to determining that the advertisement is associated with a video eligible to be displayed with the advertisement;

generate video selection data for displaying the video proximate to or within the advertisement; and

provide the display data and the video selection data; and

in response to determining that the advertisement is not associated with a video eligible to be displayed with the advertisement, provide the display data without video selection data.