Impression-plus-click auctions

  • Authors:
  • Sharad Goel;Sébastien Lahaie;Sergei Vassilvitskii

  • Affiliations:
  • Yahoo! Research;Yahoo! Research;Yahoo! Research

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGecom Exchanges
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Internet search companies generate the majority of their multibillion dollar revenue from selling ad placement, often in the form of short, textual ads that appear next to web search results. Such sponsored search ads are typically sold via pay-per-click auctions in which advertisers bid for placement, but pay publishers (i.e., search companies) only when users click on their ads. As payments are made only when ads are clicked, publishers consider both the advertiser's click bid and also the ad's quality (i.e., the probability of it being clicked) when deciding which ads to display [Edelman et al. 2007].