Taskmaster Technologies Inc.

John Holsworth

Matt LeBaron

Generating a cannibalism score for a paid ad in a search engine results page (SERP) by gathering keywords relevant to an advertiser, defining rules that compute a cannibalism score for the ad in relation to a corresponding unpaid listing, where the cannibalism score estimates the reduction in revenue to the advertiser due to the ad appearing in the same SERP as the corresponding listing, providing a keyword to a search engine, receiving a SERP from the search engine, determining the position of a first ad placed by the advertiser from among one or more ads in the SERP, determining the position of a corresponding unpaid listing from among a plurality of unpaid listings in the SERP, and applying the rules to the ad and to the corresponding unpaid listing to obtain a cannibalism score for the ad.

Management of cannibalistic ads to improve internet advertising efficiency

Generating an estimate of reclaimed ad spend for an Internet advertising campaign, by receiving a set of keywords, where each keyword corresponds to a paid ad that is supplied to a search engine, gathering a cannibalism score for each paid ad, where a cannibalism score indicates that the presence of a designated paid ad in a SERP reduces the chance that a user will click on a corresponding unpaid listing, and estimating a reclaimed ad spend as the difference between the actual revenue reported for a period of time and an estimate of the expected ad spend for a comparable period of time when de-cannibalizing actions were taken; and reporting the estimate of the reclaimed ad spend.

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John Holsworth