How Search Engine Advertising Affects Sales over Time: An Empirical Investigation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06809v1
• Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 23:15:33 GMT
• Title: How Search Engine Advertising Affects Sales over Time: An Empirical Investigation
• Authors: Yanwu Yang, Kang Zhao, Daniel Zeng, and Bernard Jim Jansen
• Abstract summary: This study builds an advertising response model within a time-varying coefficient (TVC) modeling framework. It estimates the model using a unique dataset from a large E-Commerce retailer in the United States. Results reveal the effects of the advertising expenditure, consumer behaviors and advertisement characteristics on realized sales.
• Score: 5.171683483168399
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: As a mainstream marketing channel on the Internet, Search Engine Advertising (SEA) has a huge business impact and attracts a plethora of attention from both academia and industry. One important goal of advertising is to increase sales. Nevertheless, while previous research has studied multiple factors that are potentially related to the outcome of SEA campaigns, effects of these factors on actual sales generated by SEA remain understudied. It is also unclear whether and how such effects change over time in highly dynamic SEA campaigns. As the first empirical investigation of the dynamic advertisement-sales relationship in SEA, this study builds an advertising response model within a time-varying coefficient (TVC) modeling framework, and estimates the model using a unique dataset from a large E-Commerce retailer in the United States. Results reveal the effects of the advertising expenditure, consumer behaviors and advertisement characteristics on realized sales, and demonstrate that such effects on sales do change over time in non-linear ways. More importantly, we find that carryover has a stronger effect in generating sales than direct response does, conversion rate is much more important than click-through rate, and ad position does not have significant effects on sales. These findings have direct implications for advertisers to launch more effective SEA campaigns.

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