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Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting Shaunak Mishra*, Jelena Gligorijevic, and Narayan Bhamidipati Yahoo Research, Verizon Media 1 B2B products Business-to-business (B2B) versus business-to-consumer (B2C) Same


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Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting

Shaunak Mishra*, Jelena Gligorijevic, and Narayan Bhamidipati Yahoo Research, Verizon Media

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

B2B products

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❖ Business-to-business (B2B) versus business-to-consumer (B2C) ❖ Same advertiser can have B2B and B2C products

WiFi service (advertiser)

small-medium enterprise (B2B) home internet (B2C)

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Online buying behavior: B2C

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unaware aware consider intent buy

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p u r c h a s e f u n n e l s t a g e s

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Online buying behavior: B2C

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unaware aware consider intent buy

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p u r c h a s e f u n n e l s t a g e s visiting websites, forums, tech blogs

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Online buying behavior: B2C

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unaware aware consider intent buy

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p u r c h a s e f u n n e l s t a g e s visiting websites, forums, tech blogs

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More details on B2C in poster # 76 KDD Applied Data Science

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Online buying behavior: B2C vs. B2B

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unaware aware consider intent buy

B2C B2B

analyst, IT manager

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influence

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Conversion (purchase) prediction

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❖ Conversion prediction is crucial for ad targeting ❖ Will conversion prediction suffer from multi-user activities for B2B purchase?

conversion prediction model

user 1 user 2 user 3

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Conversion (purchase) prediction

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❖ Conversion prediction is crucial for ad targeting ❖ Will conversion prediction suffer from multi-user activities for B2B purchase?

conversion prediction model

user 1 user 2 user 3

Assumptions ❖ No declared profiles! ❖ Online activity trails available

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Conversion (purchase) prediction

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❖ Conversion prediction is crucial for ad targeting ❖ Will conversion prediction suffer from multi-user activities for B2B purchase?

conversion prediction model

user 1 user 2 user 3

user 1 trail: act1, act2, search WiFi offers, act3, act4, purchase user 2 trail: act2, act4, search WiFi offers, act5, act6 user 3 trail: act1, act3, act5, purchase

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Conversion (purchase) prediction

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❖ Conversion prediction is crucial for ad targeting ❖ Will conversion prediction suffer from multi-user activities for B2B purchase?

conversion prediction model

user 1 user 2 user 3

user 1 trail: act1, act2, search WiFi offers, act3, act4, purchase user 2 trail: act2, act4, search WiFi offers, act5, act6 user 3 trail: act1, act3, act5, purchase

Model can relate “search WiFi offers” to purchase Model cannot relate “search WiFi offers” to purchase

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Conversion (purchase) prediction

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❖ Conversion prediction is crucial for ad targeting ❖ Will conversion prediction suffer from multi-user activities for B2B purchase?

conversion prediction model

user 1 user 2 user 3

user 1 trail: act1, act2, search WiFi offers, act3, act4, purchase user 2 trail: act2, act4, search WiFi offers, act5, act6 user 3 trail: act1, act3, act5, purchase

Model can relate “search WiFi offers” to purchase Intuition: augmenting user trails may help!

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Trail augmentation: relevant users and acts

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user 2 trail: act2, act4, search WiFi offers, act5, act6 user 3 trail: act1, act3, act5, … purchase Consider users in the same cluster/household

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Trail augmentation: relevant users and acts

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user 2 trail: act2, act4, search WiFi offers, act5, act6 user 3 trail: act1, act3, act5, … purchase relevant act (advertiser specific)

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Trail augmentation: relevant users and acts

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user 2 trail: act2, act4, search WiFi offers, act5, act6 user 3 trail: act1, act3, act5, … purchase relevant act relevant user

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Trail augmentation: relevant users and acts

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user 2 trail: act2, act4, search WiFi offers, act5, act6 user 3 trail: act1, act3, act5, … purchase relevant act relevant user augmented user 3 trail: act1, act3, act5, [ act2, act4, search WiFi offers, act5, act6 ], … purchase Model can relate “search WiFi offers” to purchase!

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Proposed approach

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users in an org (commercial IP, household ID) relevant acts seed list

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Proposed approach

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users in an org (commercial IP, household ID) relevant acts seed list Identify relevant users

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Proposed approach

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users in an org (commercial IP, household ID) relevant acts seed list identify relevant users augment user trails in cluster by relevant users’ trails + use in conv. model

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Proposed approach

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users in an org (commercial IP, household ID) relevant acts seed list identify relevant users augment user trails in cluster by relevant users’ trails + use in conv. model

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Relevant acts seed list

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❖ Start with high “conversion rate” activities + manual review (e.g., visiting advertiser website) ❖ Iteratively expand seed list using activity2vec embeddings advertiser specific list of

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Activity2vec based expansion

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user i trail: act1, act3, act5, … act10, act1, act2 activity2vec = word2vec style training with activity trails session = sentence act = word user trail = document

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Activity2vec based expansion

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user i trail: act1, act3, act5, … act10, act1, act2 activity2vec = word2vec style training with activity trails session = sentence act = word user trail = document

neighbor based iterative seed expansion

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Results

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initial seed list vs. no augmentation noise in expanded seed list

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Results

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initial seed list vs. no augmentation noise in expanded seed list

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Summary

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❖ Trail augmentation helps! ❖ Seed list useful for targeting, insights! ❖ Uniform influence assumption

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Mishra, S., Gligorijevic, J., Bhamidipati, N. “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”

Summary

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❖ Trail augmentation helps! ❖ Seed list useful for targeting, insights! ❖ Uniform influence assumption ❖ Questions?