Determining advertising effectiveness outside of a social networking system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8874639
SERIAL NO

12977038

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A social networking system or other user registration site builds a log of exposures by users to advertisements outside of the user registration site to determine their effectiveness. For each user exposed to an advertisement, a log entry is created indicating that the user has been exposed to the advertisement. Tracking pixels are embedded into advertisements that, when accessed, enable the social networking system or user registration site to log access to the advertisement by the user. From the log files, the user registration site identifies exposed users and selects unexposed users with similar demographics and/or behavior information to generate a control group. The two groups can be surveyed about the advertisement to determine its effectiveness. The user exposure information also can be used to retarget advertisements, to measure advertising effectiveness on connections of exposed users, and to measure actions of exposed users.

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  • FACEBOOK, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bruich, Sean Michael Palo Alto, US 30 349
Lindsay, Robert Taaffe San Francisco, US 30 810
Smallwood, Bradley Hopkins Palo Alto, US 13 137

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