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 more than 120 top 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 here)

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.

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Featured Technology

Detecting Online Commercial Intention
Predict a customer's intention to buy, sell, or complete another kind of transaction based on their search queries or recently visited URLs.

Demographics Prediction
Predict a user's age, gender, and other demographic information, based on their online behavior.

Product Classification
Automatically classify products into predefined categories based on product name or product description.

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
ADKDD, August 24, 2008
The 2nd Annual International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence. This conference will bring researchers from different areas together to work on solving the numerous challenges faced by the rapidly changing digital advertising industry.

KDD 2008
The 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining. Microsoft adCenter Labs is proud to be a platinum sponsor of KDD 2008.

Microsoft Announces Acquisition of YaData Microsoft has acquired YaData Ltd., a provider of advanced tools for the discovery of unique customer segments.

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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]

Microsoft prototype targets ads based on viewer's gender [Seattle PI]

AdCenter Labs Wants to Lend You Its Tools [Direct Mag]

Microsoft's Video HyperLink Technology Showcasing Kohl's [D'Technology]

Pretty neat tools for SEMs to play with [Search Engine Roundtable]

Microsoft's adCenter Labs Demographic Prediction Demo weighs in on American Idol Popularity [Web Metrics Guru]

Pretty neat stuff … [Search Engine Watch]