Reinventing Sponsored Search Auctions

Data Skeptic

Episode | Podcast

Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:00:00 +0000

<p>In this Data Skeptic episode, Kyle is joined by guest <a href="http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cavallo/">Ruggiero Cavallo</a> to discuss his latest efforts to mitigate the problems presented in this new world of online advertising. Working with his collaborators, Ruggiero reconsiders the search ad allocation and pricing problems from the ground up and redesigns a search ad selling system. He discusses a mechanism that optimizes an entire page of ads globally based on efficiency-maximizing search allocation and a novel technical approach to computing prices.</p>