Study of click through rate prediction in online advertisement

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1000-5641.2017.05.008

Abstract

Abstract: With the development of the Internet and the growth of users, the advertising industry originated from the traditional offline advertising model, is gradually transforming into online advertising model. At the same time, due to the use of large data analysis technology, online advertising shows great advantages when compared with traditional advertising. The advertisers deliver their advertisements to the platform's specific positions by competition auction of counterparts. Therefore, it is important to predict the click through rate (CTR) of a given advertisement before auction, which is important for advertisers to reduce costs and expand their likely revenue.This paper introduces the commonly used ad click rate prediction model, uses the information from different advertisers, advertisements and media platforms as the features of machine learning, and uses real data sets to illustrate the advantages of various models,and the impact of different features on the ad click rate.

Key words: computational advertising, CTR, machine learning

CLC Number:

TP391

XIAO YAO, BI Jun-fang, HAN YI, DONG Qi-wen. Study of click through rate prediction in online advertisement[J]. Journal of East China Normal University(Natural Sc, 2017, 2017(5): 80-86,100.

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