Attribution of responses to advertising
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1. A method performed by a computing system for analyzing electronic advertising, the method comprising:
- receiving a notification of activation of a search advertising message by a client device,wherein the search advertising message is presented on a search results webpage displayed on the client device in response to a search query input by a user of the client device,wherein the notification includes a URL for a landing page associated with the search advertising message, andwherein the activation of the search advertising message on the client device causes display of the landing page as indicated by the URL;
in response to receiving the notification of the activation of the search advertising message,accessing records of advertising messages that were presented on the client device before presentation of the search advertising message on the client device,wherein the advertising messages are of different types including a banner advertising message, a video advertising message, an animation advertising message, or an audio advertising message,wherein a type of advertising message is selected for presentation on the client device in a particular instance of a particular webpage based on contextual data including;
a subject of the particular webpage,a website of the particular webpage,a section of the website of the webpage,demographic information about the user, orweb browsing behavior of the user, andwherein each record of an advertising message is associated with a target URL for a target landing page such that activation of the advertising message would cause the client device to present the target landing page as indicated by the target URL;
identifying a plurality of advertising messages, from among those associated with the records of advertising messages, whose target URLs match the URL of the search advertising message;
measuring an effect of each type of the identified advertising messages, presented on the client device before presentation of the search advertising message, to cause activation of the search advertising message by the user; and
recording an indication that activation of the search advertising message should be at least partly attributed to presentation of at least one of the identified advertising messages of a particular type and the measured effect of the particular type relative to other types of the identified advertising messages.
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Abstract
A facility for analyzing electronic advertising is described. The facility determines that a particular client device has been used to activate a first advertising message for a particular cause. In response, the facility identifies a second advertising message for that cause that was presented on the same client device at a time before the first advertising message was activated. In response, the facility determines that the activation of the first advertising message is at least partly attributable to the presentation of the second advertising message.
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1. A method performed by a computing system for analyzing electronic advertising, the method comprising:
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receiving a notification of activation of a search advertising message by a client device, wherein the search advertising message is presented on a search results webpage displayed on the client device in response to a search query input by a user of the client device, wherein the notification includes a URL for a landing page associated with the search advertising message, and wherein the activation of the search advertising message on the client device causes display of the landing page as indicated by the URL; in response to receiving the notification of the activation of the search advertising message, accessing records of advertising messages that were presented on the client device before presentation of the search advertising message on the client device, wherein the advertising messages are of different types including a banner advertising message, a video advertising message, an animation advertising message, or an audio advertising message, wherein a type of advertising message is selected for presentation on the client device in a particular instance of a particular webpage based on contextual data including; a subject of the particular webpage, a website of the particular webpage, a section of the website of the webpage, demographic information about the user, or web browsing behavior of the user, and wherein each record of an advertising message is associated with a target URL for a target landing page such that activation of the advertising message would cause the client device to present the target landing page as indicated by the target URL; identifying a plurality of advertising messages, from among those associated with the records of advertising messages, whose target URLs match the URL of the search advertising message; measuring an effect of each type of the identified advertising messages, presented on the client device before presentation of the search advertising message, to cause activation of the search advertising message by the user; and recording an indication that activation of the search advertising message should be at least partly attributed to presentation of at least one of the identified advertising messages of a particular type and the measured effect of the particular type relative to other types of the identified advertising messages. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 27)
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8. One or more instances of computer-readable media collectively storing contents configured to perform a method for analyzing electronic advertising, the method comprising:
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(a) determining that a client device has been used to present a first advertising message of a first type, wherein the first advertising message was presented on the client device in response to input by a user, wherein the first advertising message is associated with a first URL for a first landing page; (b) in response to (a), accessing records of advertising messages that were presented on the client device before presentation of the first advertising message on the client device, wherein the advertising messages are of different types including a banner advertising message, a video advertising message, an animation advertising message, or an audio advertising message, wherein a particular type of a particular advertising message is selected for presentation based on contextual data including; a subject of a webpage on which the particular advertising message is presented, a website of the webpage, a section of the website to which the webpage belongs, demographic information about the user, or web browsing behavior of the user, and wherein each record or an advertising message is associated with a target URL for a target landing page such that activation of the target URL causes presentation of the target landing page indicated by the target URL; identifying a second advertising message, from among those associated with the records of advertising messages, of a second type that has a second URL that matches the first URL for the first landing page; and (c) in response to (b), measuring a relative effect of the first type and the second type of the advertising messages presented on the client device before presentation of the first advertising message, to cause the activation the first URL by the user; and generating an indication that the activation of the first URL is at least partly attributable to the presentation of at least one of the advertising messages of the second type based on the measured effect. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 28)
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13. A method for analyzing electronic advertising, the method comprising:
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(a) determining that a first advertising message of a first type has been activated in connection with a user identifier, wherein the first advertising message is associated with a first URL for a first landing page, and wherein activation of the first advertising message causes display of the first landing page indicated by the first URL; (b) in response to (a), accessing records of advertising messages that were presented at a device before presentation of the first advertising message, wherein the advertising messages are of different types including a banner message, a video message, an animation message, or an audio message, wherein a particular type of advertising message is selected for presentation on a particular webpage based on; a subject of the particular webpage, a website of the particular webpage, a section of the website including the webpage, demographic information about the user, or web browsing behavior of the user, and wherein each record of an advertising message is associated with a target URL for a target landing page such that activation of the advertising message causes presentation of the target landing page indicated by the target URL; identifying a second advertising message, from among the records of advertising messages, of a second type that has a second target URL that matches the first URL of the first landing page for the first advertising message of the first type; and (c) in response to (b), measuring an effect of the second type of the second advertising message on the user to activate the first URL for the first landing page, and generating an indication that the activation of the first advertising message of the first type in connection with the user identifier is at least partly attributable to the presentation of the second advertising message of the second type based on the measured effect. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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16. One or more computer memories collectively storing an advertising attribution data structure, the data structure comprising a plurality of entries, each entry comprising:
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an indication of a first advertising message of a first type activated from a client device at a first time, wherein the first advertising message was presented on the client device in response to input by a user of the client device, wherein the indication includes a first target URL for a first target landing page associated with the first advertising message, and wherein activation of the first advertising message on the client device causes display of the first target landing page indicated by the first target URL; an indication of multiple records of advertising messages presented on the client device before presentation of the first advertising message of the first type on the client device, wherein the advertising messages include the first type and a second type different from the first type, wherein a particular type of advertising message is selected for presentation on a particular webpage based on contextual data of the particular webpage or the user of the client device, and wherein each record of a particular advertising message is associated with a particular target URL for a particular target landing page; for the first advertising message of the first type activated from the client device at the first time; an indication of a second advertising message, from among the records of advertising messages, of the second type that was presented on the client device before the presentation of the first advertising message of the first type on the client device, and an indication of a second target URL usable to retrieve a second landing page for the second advertising message of the second type, wherein the second target URL matches the first target URL usable to retrieve the first target landing page for the first advertising message of the first type such that contents of the data structure are adapted for use to evaluate an effect that presenting advertising messages of the second type has had on activation of advertising messages of the first type. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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