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Prediction of Advertiser Churn for Google AdWords
Abstract: Google AdWords has thousands of advertisers participating in
auctions to show their advertisements. Google's business model has two goals: firrst,
provide relevant information to users and second, provide advertising opportunities to
advertisers to achieve their business needs. To better serve these two parties, it is
important to find relevant information for users and at the same time assist
advertisers in advertising more efficiently and effectively. In this paper, we try to
tackle this problem of better connecting users and advertisers from a customer
relationship management point of view. More specifically, we try to retain more
advertisers in AdWords by identifying and helping advertisers that are not successful
in using Google AdWords. In this work, we first propose a new definition of advertiser
churn for AdWords advertisers; second we present a method to carefully select a
homogeneous group of advertisers to use in understanding and predicting advertiser
churn; and third we build a model to predict advertiser churn using machine learning
algorithms.
