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Semantic Advertising. Ame Wongsa INF 385T – Semantic Web. Background – Online Advertising. Banner ads allowed tracking of click through rates Arms race for people’s attention led to increasingly intrusive ads (blinking banners, pop-ups, video ads, inline ads, etc. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Semantic AdvertisingAme Wongsa
INF 385T – Semantic Web
Background – Online Advertising
Banner ads allowed tracking of click through rates
Arms race for people’s attention led to increasingly intrusive ads (blinking banners, pop-ups, video ads, inline ads, etc.
GoTo.com started pay-per-click-ads and keyword bidding
Google AdWords and AdSense network
Contextual Advertising
Behavioral Targeting
Contextual Advertising
Behavioral Targeting
Use individual browsing behavior (page visited, searches, purchase history) to select advertising to display.
Used with geography, demographics, content.
Uses cookies -- Privacy issues
What is important to online advertisers?
Targeted advertisingPreventing negative associations
ROI – Return On Investment
Competition, brand protection
CTR – Click Through Rate
Pay per clicks (PPC), Cost per action (CPA), cost per thousand (CPM)
Semantic Advertising
Four Kinds:
1.Contextual advertising with semantic technology
2.Semantic search advertising
3.Dynamic advertising content
4.Advertising inside semantic data
Source: http://www.chiefmartec.com/2008/09/semantic-advertising-of-4-different-kinds.html?cid=130782220#comments
1. Contextual Advertising with semantic technology
Use semantic technology as a competitive advantage to contextual advertising
Goal is to understand content of page to provide more targeted advertising
Peer93* Base on proprietary algorithms for natural language
processing and machine learning to understand page meaning and sentiment
iSense taxonomy base system hand built by 40 linguists and
lexicographers
2. Semantic search advertising
Semantic search engines try to provide people with better search experience
Advertising can provide a business model
May bid on concepts and relationships instead of keywords
Example of semantic search engines: Powerset, Hakia
3. Dynamic advertising content
Advertisers expose offerings in XML semantic data and agencies read data to dynamically change content of ad accordingly
Little coordination to update ads
Require standardized format of semantic data across advertisers
Ex. Dapper’s MashupAds platformDapper is a data extraction and API creation service
and is used for semantic indexing.
4. Advertising inside semantic data
Ex. Yahoo! SearchMonkeyAllow developers and site owners to use structured
data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and to drive more relevant traffic to their site
Structured data: microformats, RDFa/eRDF, atom feeds, web services
Example
4. Advertising inside semantic data (cont.)
Content providers can charge advertisers to provide semantic data
Semantic listing is more noticeable even if they have lower ranking and useful presentation can increase ranking
Search engine optimization
Ex. OpenCalaisGenerates semantic metadata from content
(text/HTML/XML) using natural language processing, machine learning and other methods.
Semantic advertising by adding sponsor’s metadata.
Advertising and the semantic web
Semantic advertising is involved in improving experiences for users (who don’t care about technology)
Better advertising as a reward can create incentive for good semantic data.
References:
Brinker, Scott. (2008, September). Semantic advertising: 4 different kinds. Retrieved October 1, 2008, from http://www.chiefmartec.com/2008/09/semantic-advertising-of-4-different-kinds.html?cid=130782220#comments
Glaser, Mark. (2005, July). The good, bad and ugly of contextual ads from Google, Yahoo. Retrieved October 1, 2008, from http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050706glaser/
Glaser, Mark. (2007, June). Your Guide to Online Advertising. Retrieved October 1, 2008, from http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/06/your-guide-to-online-advertising178.html
Miller, Paul. (2008, October). Scott Brinker talks with Talis about Semantic Marketing. Retrieved October 1, 2008, from http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/10/scott-brinker-talks-with-talis-about-semantic-marketing.php