adCenter Labs - Innovations in Digital Advertising

Microsoft adCenter Labs is an applied research group dedicated to researching and incubating new digital advertising technologies. Formed in 2006, Microsoft adCenter Labs combines the talents of researchers and engineers, all dedicated to developing cutting-edge ways for consumers and advertisers to connect. Our researchers work across a broad range of technology areas, including keyword and content technologies, audience intelligence, ad selection and relevance, social networking, and video and interactive media. The algorithms developed by our team operate in the engines of Microsoft adCenter products such as Paid Search, Content Ads, and Behavioral Targeting. We are also committed to investing in developing online advertising products that will shape the future of advertising through more relevant and meaningful ads across online video, television and mobile devices. Read more about us.

This web site hosts a representative sample of some of our innovative research tools in the area of digital advertising and Internet marketing. Enjoy exploring the web site, and please feel free to contact us for more information.

Featured Technology

Gaze: Rich Media Technology
Gaze is an in-text advertisement solution that helps publishers to better monetize their content and users to gather meaningful and contextual information at the fingertip. It is based on Contextual Ads and Rich Entities. The contextual advertising uses semantic analysis to determine dominant keywords within the content of a published web site, while rich entities are the pieces of content that are enriched with additional pre-defined attributes that are interesting to the users. See Gaze in action here or download it for your website.

Relationships

Relationships
Microsoft adCenter Labs works closely with other research and development labs in Microsoft, and we have built strong collaborations with researchers in Microsoft Research Asia.

Researchers at adCenter Labs also actively participate and contribute to academic research communities, attending numerous conferences including SIGKDD, WWW, SES, AdTech, and SIGIR. Many of our research results and prototypes were presented at these conferences. Microsoft adCenter Labs is the Platinum Sponsor for KDD 2008, KDD 2007, and KDD 2006, and is the organizer of the International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising 2008 (ADKDD 2008).

We also work closely with the Microsoft adCenter team. Many of the algorithms created at Microsoft adCenter Labs are currently running in the core of Microsoft adCenter products.

Happenings

Happenings
Digital Advertising Demo Fest 2009
Advertising Demo Fest event hosted by Microsoft adCenter Labs to showcase some of the new advertising innovations and technologies under development in adCenter labs.

Runner-up awards at KDD08
Researchers at Microsoft adCenter labs received recognition for their work at prestigious conference KDD08. Their collaborative work has been selected as the runner-up among the Best Application Paper Awards category.

Buzz!

What others are saying about us!

Microsoft works to deliver better ads [PC World]

What's new, and what's not, from Microsoft's advertising gurus [TechFlash]

Microsoft wants to speed discovery of user likes, dislikes in online advertising [Seattle Times]

Video: Microsoft 'Gaze' Demo [TechFlash]

Microsoft demos next-gen ad technologies [CNet]

Microsoft Unveils Video and Contextual Targeting Features [ClickZ]

Contextual ads could be served alongside video by using speech recognition [InformationWeek]