Panama (ad system)

Panama (ad system)

Panama is an online advertising platform created by Yahoo!.

The new advertising platform is Yahoo’s effort to close the wide gap with Google in the race for search advertising dollars, a fast-growing and incredibly lucrative business that Google dominates.

The first release was code-named Project Panama, which went live in October 2006 for the Yahoo!'s existing customers [http://sg.news.yahoo.com/061212/1/45f5a.html] . Customers with accounts already on Yahoo! were transferred over to the new system over the following few months.

Features

The platform provides advertisers with a digital dashboard where they can manage their marketing campaigns, aim ads geographically and test their effectiveness. It includes interactive tools that suggest to advertisers what to bid based on their budget and the number of users they want to attract. [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/technology/05yahoo.html?ei=5090&en=7c66de3983c44830&ex=1328331600&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all A Long-Delayed Ad System Has Yahoo Crossing Its Fingers - New York Times ] ]

'Quality Index'

The 'quality index', as Yahoo! engineers call it, gives advertisers a sense of how the system will rank an ad, and sophisticated analytical tools that give advertisers insights on why certain campaigns are effective.

History

Yahoo! inherited the search advertising business when it purchased Overture (previously named Goto.com). Until Panama, Yahoo! search continued to operate the original simplistic algorithm which ranked text ads according to how much advertisers bid for the keyword searched by user. Meanwhile, Google operates under a more sophisticated model, which ranks paid ads on the basis of bid price as well as prior click through rates. This improvement generally produces higher click through rates (hence higher revenues) for the search engine.

For example, an ambulance chasing attorney bidding for keywords "back pain" will likely get lower click through rate than a physiotherapist, regardless of what the two parties bid per click. An algorithm that eventually de-prioritises attorney's ad is better for the search engine (in terms of revenue produced) and the user (more relevant ads).

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