Impression based television advertising
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- identifying advertisement time slots;
identifying television advertisement parameters associated with television advertisements, the television advertisement parameters including a cost per action parameter for each television advertisement;
identifying quality scores associated with the television advertisements, each quality score being for a corresponding television advertisement and derived from historical impression data measuring the impressions of the television advertisement from the broadcast airings of television advertisement on television channels, the historical impression data defining a historical impression rate that is proportion to a number of reliable impressions for the television advertisement divided by a total number of received impressions for the television advertisement, wherein each reliable impression is an impression that satisfies a condition that determines that the impression was likely viewed by one or more persons, the measuring of each impression being dependent on a channel tune status of a television channel at a viewing device when the advertisement aired on the television channel;
auctioning the advertisement time slots based on, for each television advertisement, the cost per action parameter of the television advertisement multiplied by the quality score for the advertisement, the multiplication generating an auction rank for the television advertisement; and
selecting, by the computer, one or more television advertisements to air during the advertisement time slots based on the auction rank of the television advertisements.
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Abstract
Television advertisements and associated advertisement parameters are received from advertisers. The television advertisements are automatically selected for airing during an advertisement availability based on the associated advertisement parameters. Data related to the selected television advertisements are provided to a television provider to facilitate airing of the selected television advertisements during the advertisement availability. Reporting data related to television advertisement airings and impressions are received from the television provider.
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
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identifying advertisement time slots; identifying television advertisement parameters associated with television advertisements, the television advertisement parameters including a cost per action parameter for each television advertisement; identifying quality scores associated with the television advertisements, each quality score being for a corresponding television advertisement and derived from historical impression data measuring the impressions of the television advertisement from the broadcast airings of television advertisement on television channels, the historical impression data defining a historical impression rate that is proportion to a number of reliable impressions for the television advertisement divided by a total number of received impressions for the television advertisement, wherein each reliable impression is an impression that satisfies a condition that determines that the impression was likely viewed by one or more persons, the measuring of each impression being dependent on a channel tune status of a television channel at a viewing device when the advertisement aired on the television channel; auctioning the advertisement time slots based on, for each television advertisement, the cost per action parameter of the television advertisement multiplied by the quality score for the advertisement, the multiplication generating an auction rank for the television advertisement; and selecting, by the computer, one or more television advertisements to air during the advertisement time slots based on the auction rank of the television advertisements. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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10. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
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identifying a television advertisement availability; identifying a context associated with the television advertisement availability; receiving television advertisement parameters associated with television advertisements; receiving quality scores, each quality score associated with a corresponding television advertisement, each quality score for each television advertisement being derived from historical impression data related to the measuring of impressions of the television advertisement from the broadcast airings of the television advertisement on television channels, the historical impression data defining a historical impression rate that is proportion to a number of reliable impressions for the television advertisement divided by a total number of received impressions for the television advertisement, wherein each reliable impression is an impression that satisfies a condition that determines that the impression was likely viewed by one or more persons, the measuring of each impression being dependent on a channel tune status of a television channel at a viewing device when the television advertisement aired on the television channel; and selecting, by the computer, from the television advertisements one or more television advertisements to air during the television advertisement availability, the selection based on the television advertisement availability, the context, the quality score for each of the television advertisements, and the advertisement parameters for each of the television advertisements; wherein; the television advertisement parameters include, for each television advertisement, a maximum cost per action bid for the television advertisement; and selecting one or more television advertisements comprises; for each television advertisement, multiplying the maximum cost per action bid of the television advertisement by the quality score of the television advertisement to determine an auction rank for the television advertisement; and selecting one or more television advertisements with the highest auction ranks as the one or more advertisements.
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25. A system, comprising;
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a television advertisement scheduling device configured to; receive a television advertisement request from a television provider, the television advertisement request defining a television advertisement availability; issue a request for candidate television advertisement data based on the television advertisement request; receive candidate television advertisement data in response to the request for candidate television advertisement data, the candidate television advertisement data corresponding to candidate television advertisement; receive quality scores, each quality score associated with a corresponding candidate television advertisement, each quality score for each candidate television advertisement being derived from historical impression data measuring the impressions of the candidate television advertisement from the broadcast airings of the candidate television advertisement on television channels, the historical impression data defining a historical impression rate that is proportion to a number of reliable impressions for the candidate television advertisement divided by a total number of received impressions for the candidate television advertisement, wherein each reliable impression is an impression that satisfies a condition that determines that the impression was likely viewed by one or more persons, the measuring of each impression being dependent on a channel tune status of a television channel at a viewing device when the candidate television advertisement aired on the television channel; and select one or more television advertisements from the candidate television advertisements to air during the television advertisement availability, the selection based on the television advertisement request, the quality score for each candidate television advertisement, and the candidate television advertisement data; wherein; the candidate television advertisement data include, for each candidate television advertisement, a maximum cost per action bid for the candidate television advertisement; each quality score for each candidate television advertisement is derived from the impression data measuring the impressions of the candidate television advertisement; and selecting one or more television advertisements from the candidate television advertisements comprises; for each candidate television advertisement, multiplying the maximum cost per action bid of the candidate television advertisement by the quality score of the candidate television advertisement to determine an auction rank for the candidate television advertisement; and selecting one or more television advertisements with the highest auction ranks as the one or more advertisements. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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