School of Social and Political Science

Research questions

Introduction

Here is a sample of the issues we are investigating:
  1. How do practitioners measure advertising's effectiveness and optimise campaign performance?
  2. How are data gathered and used for measurement, attribution and personalisation?
    • How is this changing?
  3. How are publishers seeking to increase revenues from online advertising?
    • What obstacles do they face?
  4. How do practitioners in smaller firms negotiate a world with large and influential
  5. companies?
  6. How do practitioners ensure that advertisements don't appear in inappropriate contexts?
  7. How do advertising professionals protect campaigns against fraud?
  8. Are practitioners happy to have the conduct of campaigns and, e.g., bidding steered by platforms' machine learning tools?
  9. How is demand for advertising brought together with supply of opportunities for it?
    • E.g., how and why have forms of auction changed?