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HAI Weekly Seminar with Harikesh Nair

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Date
Wednesday, February 03, 2021 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST/PDT
Topics
Communications, Media

Digital Advertising: The Golden Age of Experiments

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Running experiments is part and parcel of science and have lead to dramatic breakthroughs in fields such as biology, medicine and physics. Compared to these, business experiments – focused on outcomes and issues of interest to firms – are a relatively newer phenomenon but are now becoming increasingly prevalent. In some areas, such as digital advertising, experimentation has become a core feature of how business is run, so much so that the current decade in computational advertising represents a golden age of experimentation in the social sciences. This talk describes how online experimentation works in modern ad-systems, and how advertising experiments differ significantly from their natural science counterparts. I also discuss practical challenges in building experimental systems within technology-driven platforms and in driving adoption of experimentation-driven tools amongst advertisers and marketers using examples from the Chinese and US markets.

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Harikesh Nair
Jonathan B. Lovelace Professor of Marketing, Stanford GSB; Faculty Director, Stanford Computational Marketing Lab

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