In recent years, manufacturers have become increasingly disposed toward the use of sales promotions, often at the cost of advertising. Yet the long-term implications of these changes for brand profitability remain unclear. In this paper, we seek to offer insights into this important issue. We...

This paper considers how a publisher should set reserve prices for real-time bidding (RTB) auctions when selling display advertising impressions through ad exchanges, a $115 billion market and growing. Conducting a series of field experiments to induce exogenous variation in reserve prices at a...

This paper summarizes the display advertising literature, organizing the content by the agents in the display advertising ecosystem, and proposes new research directions. In doing so, we take an interdisciplinary view, drawing connections among diverse streams of theoretical and empirical...

Television (TV), the predominant advertising medium, is being transformed by the micro-targeting capabilities of set-top boxes (STBs). Accordingly, this paper uses a proprietary, household-level, single source data set to develop a second-by-second show and advertisement viewing model, using...

Sponsored search advertising is ascendant -- Jupiter Research reports expenditures rose 28% in 2007 to $8.9B and will continue to rise at a 26% CAGR, approaching 1/2 the level of television advertising and making it one of the major advertising trends to affect the marketing landscape. Yet...