Monitoring advertisement impressions
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1. A method for tracking advertisement impressions, the method comprising:
- storing an advertisement in memory of an advertising server, the advertisement having a play length, wherein only a portion of the play length concerns an advertised product;
receiving a request sent from an end-user device over a game network to the advertising server, the request concerning a digital content title and including an identified geographic location of the end-user device;
providing the end-user device with access to the requested digital content title over the game network; and
executing instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by a processor;
inserts the advertisement into the digital content title based on one or more tags within the digital content title, wherein the advertisement is played when a trigger event occurs during play of the digital content title,tracks an amount of play time that the advertisement is played,determines whether the portion of the play length concerning the advertised product has been played,records an impression based on the tracked amount of time and the determination that the portion of the play length has been played, wherein the recorded impression is associated with the identified geographic location of the end-user device at a time the impression is recorded, andcounts the recorded impression against a total ad buy when the identified end-user device location is within an advertiser-specified geographic region, wherein a total number of recorded impressions based on the tracked amount of time is different than a total number of impressions counted against the total ad buy.
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Abstract
A targeted in-game advertising system is provided where advertising content may be delivered to a video game network environment. Advertisements may be delivered through the tagging of advertising assets in the video game environment according to one or more characteristics including user geographical location, personal preferences, a personal profile, video game preferences or video game genre. Methodologies for tracking advertising impressions are also provided based on monitoring the video game environment to determine the quality of impression to which the user is exposed in the video game environment.
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1. A method for tracking advertisement impressions, the method comprising:
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storing an advertisement in memory of an advertising server, the advertisement having a play length, wherein only a portion of the play length concerns an advertised product; receiving a request sent from an end-user device over a game network to the advertising server, the request concerning a digital content title and including an identified geographic location of the end-user device; providing the end-user device with access to the requested digital content title over the game network; and executing instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by a processor; inserts the advertisement into the digital content title based on one or more tags within the digital content title, wherein the advertisement is played when a trigger event occurs during play of the digital content title, tracks an amount of play time that the advertisement is played, determines whether the portion of the play length concerning the advertised product has been played, records an impression based on the tracked amount of time and the determination that the portion of the play length has been played, wherein the recorded impression is associated with the identified geographic location of the end-user device at a time the impression is recorded, and counts the recorded impression against a total ad buy when the identified end-user device location is within an advertiser-specified geographic region, wherein a total number of recorded impressions based on the tracked amount of time is different than a total number of impressions counted against the total ad buy. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 18, 19, 20)
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9. A system for tracking advertisement impressions, the system comprising:
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memory that stores an advertisement, the advertisement having a play length, wherein only a portion of the play length concerns an advertised product; a communications interface that communicates over a game network to; receive a request from a user of an end-user device, the request concerning a digital content title and including an identified geographic location of the end-user device; and provide the end-user device with access to the requested digital content title; and a processor that executes instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor; inserts the advertisement into the digital content title based on one or more tags within the digital content title, wherein the advertisement is played when a trigger event occurs during play of the digital content title, tracks an amount of play time that the advertisement is played, determines whether the portion of the play length concerning the advertised product has been played, records an impression based on the tracked amount of time and the determination that the portion of the play length has been played, wherein the recorded impression is associated with the identified geographic location of the end-user device at a time the impression is recorded, and counts the recorded impression against a total ad buy when the identified end-user device location is within an advertiser-specified geographic region, wherein a total number of recorded impressions based on the tracked amount of time is different than a total number of impressions counted against the total ad buy. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor for performing a method for tracking advertisement impressions, the method comprising:
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storing an advertisement having a play length, wherein only a portion of the play length concerns an advertised product; receiving a request from a user of an end-user device, the request concerning a digital content title and including an identified geographic location of the end-user device; providing the end-user device with access to the requested digital content title; inserting the advertisement into the digital content title based on one or more tags within the digital content title, wherein the advertisement is played when a trigger event occurs during play of the digital content title; tracking an amount of play time that the advertisement is played; determining whether the portion of the play length concerning the advertised product has been played; recording an impression based on the tracked amount of time and the determination that the portion of the play length has been played, wherein the recorded impression is associated with the identified geographic location of the end-user device at a time the impression is recorded, and counting the recorded impression against a total ad buy when the identified end-user device location is within an advertiser-specified geographic region, wherein a total number of recorded impressions based on the tracked amount of time is different than a total number of impressions counted against the total ad buy.
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