Automatically mapping ad targeting criteria between online Ad platforms

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Abstract

Targeting criteria in online advertising differ across platforms and frequently change. Because advertisers are increasingly taking a multi-channel approach to online marketing, there is a need to automatically map the targeting criteria between ad platforms. In this research, we test two algorithmic approaches - Word2Vec and WordNet - for mapping ad targeting criteria between Google Ads and Facebook Ads. The results show that Word2Vec outperforms WordNet in finding matches (97.5% vs. 63.6%), covering different criteria (20.0% vs. 13.5%), and having higher similarity scores. However, WordNet outperforms Word2Vec in expert evaluation (Mean Opinion Score = 3.05 vs. 2.46), implying that algorithmic performance metrics may not correlate with expert ratings. Overall, due to specific requirements for mapping ad targeting criteria, automatic means do not (at least yet) offer a satisfactory solution for replacing human judgment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2021
EditorsTung X. Bui
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages940-948
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9780998133140
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 4 Jan 20218 Jan 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Volume2020-January
ISSN (Print)1530-1605

Conference

Conference54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period4/01/218/01/21

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