This article reports on a large-scale implementation of marketing science models to solve the bidding problem in search engine advertising. In cooperation with the online marketing agency SoQuero, the authors developed a fully automated bidding decision support system, PROSAD (profit optimizing...

This paper reports on a large-scale implementation of marketing science models to solve the bidding problem in search engine advertising. In cooperation with the online marketing agency SoQuero, we developed a fully automated bidding decision support system, PROSAD (Profit Optimizing Search...

This paper reports on a large-scale implementation of marketing science models to solve the bidding problem in search engine advertising. In cooperation with the online marketing agency SoQuero, we developed a fully automated bidding decision support system, PROSAD (Profit Optimizing Search...

Ad exchanges, i.e., platforms where real-time auctions for ad impressions take place, historically emphasized targeting based on users, and advertisers often did not know which sites their ads would appear on, i.e., the ad context. More recently, some ad exchanges have been encouraging...