METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT USING OPENING BID PRICE
Disclosed herein are a method and a system for providing an advertisement using a bidding starting price. The method for providing an advertisement includes: determining a bidding starting price for each keyword based on a minimum cost per click for a keyword and the number of expected clicks for the keyword; determining an area in which an advertisement of an advertiser is to be exposed based on a bidding price per unit time input from the advertiser; and providing the advertisement of the advertiser through the area, wherein the bidding price per unit time has a value of the bidding starting price for each keyword or more.
1 . A method for providing an advertisement, the method comprising:
calculating a bidding starting price based on past data with respect to a search keyword for a search advertisement;
transmitting the bidding starting price to an advertiser arithmetic unit;
receiving bidding information on the search advertisement from the advertiser arithmetic unit, the bidding information including information on a time during which the search advertisement is to be published and a bidding price for the search advertisement;
determining a publication position and/or a publication order of the search advertisement based on an amount of the bidding price corresponding to a predetermined time period within the time during which the search advertisement is to be published in the predetermine time period; and
publishing the search advertisement according to the determined publication position and/or publication order for the predetermined time period,
wherein the bidding starting price is considered based on a certain range.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the past data comprises at least one of a publication number of the search advertisement for a past predetermined time, a click number of advertisement information on the search advertisement, a bidding price for the search advertisement, or a charging amount for the search advertisement.
3 - 5 . (canceled)
6 . A method for providing an advertisement, the method comprising:
calculating a bidding starting price based on past data with respect to a search keyword for a search advertisement;
transmitting the bidding starting price to an advertiser arithmetic unit;
receiving bidding information on the search advertisement from the advertiser arithmetic unit, the bidding information comprising information of time during which the search advertisement is to be published and a bidding price for the search advertisement;
determining a publication position and/or a publication order of the search advertisement based on an amount of the bidding price corresponding to a predetermined time period within the time during which the search advertisement is to be published for the predetermine time period; and
publishing the search advertisement according to the determined publication position and/or publication order for the predetermined time period,
wherein the bidding starting price is discounted based on a depth for the search keyword.
7 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the past data comprises at least one of a publication number of the search advertisement for a past predetermined time, a click number of advertisement information on the search advertisement, a bidding price for the search advertisement, or a charging amount for the search advertisement.
8 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the discount is applied if the depth is less than the number of publishable search advertisements.
9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein a discount rate of the discount is in proportion to a difference value between the number of publishable search advertisements and the depth.
10 . A system for providing an advertisement, the system comprising:
an auction managing unit configured to calculate a bidding starting price based on past data with respect to a search keyword for a search advertisement, to transmit the bidding starting price to an advertiser arithmetic unit, and to receive bidding information on the search advertisement from the advertiser arithmetic unit, the bidding information comprising information based on time during which the search advertisement is to be published and a bidding price for the search advertisement; and
an advertisement executing unit configured to determine a publication position and/or a publication order of the search advertisement based on an amount of the bidding price corresponding to a predetermined time period within the time during which the search advertisement is to be published in the predetermine time period and to publish the search advertisement according to the determined publication position and/or publication order for the predetermined time period,
wherein the bidding starting price is calculated based on a number of search bid advertisements with respect to the search keyword which becomes at least a number of publishable search advertisements.
11 . The system of claim 10 , wherein the past data comprises at least one of a publication number of the search advertisement for a past predetermined time, a click number of advertisement information on the search advertisement, a bidding price for the search advertisement, or a charging amount for the search advertisement.
12 . The system of claim 10 , wherein the bidding starting price is determined if the number of search bid advertisements with respect to the search keyword occur at least the number of publishable search advertisements.
13 . The system of claim 10 , wherein the bidding starting price is determined if the number of search bid advertisements with respect to the search keyword occur at least the number of publishable search advertisements for a recent predetermined time.
14 . The system of claim 10 , wherein the bidding starting price is determined if the number of search bid advertisements with respect to the search keyword occur at least the number of publishable search advertisements for a recent predetermined time.
15 . A system for providing an advertisement, the system comprising:
an auction managing unit configured to calculate a bidding starting price based on past data with respect to a search keyword for a search advertisement, to transmit the bidding starting price to an advertiser arithmetic unit, and to receive bidding information on the search advertisement from the advertiser arithmetic unit, the bidding information comprising information of time during which the search advertisement is to be published and a bidding price for the search advertisement; and
an advertisement executing unit to determine a publication position and/or a publication order of the search advertisement based on an amount of the bidding price corresponding to a predetermined time period within the time during which the search advertisement is to be published in the predetermine time period and to publish the search advertisement according to the determined publication position and/or publication order for the predetermined time period,
wherein the bidding starting price is discounted based on a depth for the search keyword.
16 . The system of claim 15 , wherein the past data comprises at least one of a publication number of the search advertisement for a past predetermined time, a click number of advertisement information on the search advertisement, a bidding price for the search advertisement, or a charging amount for the search advertisement.
17 . The system of claim 15 , wherein the discount is applied when the depth is less than the number of publishable search advertisements.
18 . The system of claim 17 , wherein a discount rate of the discount is determined in proportion to a difference value between the number of publishable search advertisements and the depth.
19 - 44 . (canceled)
45 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the certain range is a range where a number of search bid advertisements with respect to the search keyword is at least the number of publishable search advertisements.
46 . The method of claim 45 , wherein the bidding starting price is determined to be in a range comprising the number of search bid advertisements with respect to the search keyword that has occurred, the number of search bid advertisements with respect to the search keyword being at least the number of publishable search advertisements.
47 . The method of claim 45 , wherein the bidding starting price is determined to be in a range comprising the number of search bid advertisements with respect to the search keyword that occurred at least once for a recent time period, the number of search bid advertisements with respect to the search keyword being at least the number of publishable search advertisements.
48 . The method of claim 45 , wherein the bidding starting price is determined to be in a range comprising the number of search bid advertisements with respect to the search keyword that occurred at least certain times for a recent time period, the number of search bid advertisements with respect to the search keyword being at least the number of publishable search advertisements.