Methods and apparatus to determine an adjustment factor for media impressions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9497090-B2
Application number	US-201414463309-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 19, 2014
Priority date	Mar 18, 2011
Publication date	Nov 15, 2016
Grant date	Nov 15, 2016

Abstract

Examples to determine media impressions are disclosed. An example method includes determining an exposure of first media, wherein the exposure occurs after a cookie identifier is received at a computing device, wherein the cookie identifier is received from a database proprietor, determining a first panelist identifier associated with the exposure based on the cookie identifier, determining a second panelist identifier associated with the exposure based on a determination of a user identity by a panelist meter associated with the computing device, determining an adjustment factor by comparing the first panelist identifier and the second panelist identifier, determining a number of impressions of second media from data logged by the database proprietor, the data logged in response to requests transmitted to the database proprietor in response to clients accessing the second media, and applying the adjustment factor to the number of impressions to determine an adjusted number of impressions.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
determining an exposure of first media has occurred, the exposure occurring after a cookie identifier is received at a computing device, the cookie identifier received from a database proprietor;
determining, via a processor, a first panelist identifier associated with the exposure based on the cookie identifier;
determining, via the processor, a second panelist identifier associated with the exposure based on a determination of a user identity by a panelist meter associated with the computing device;
determining, via the processor, an adjustment factor by comparing the first panelist identifier and the second panelist identifier;
determining, via the processor, a number of exposures of second media from data logged by the database proprietor, the data logged in response to requests transmitted to the database proprietor in response to clients accessing the second media; and
applying the adjustment factor to the number of exposures with the processor to determine an adjusted number of exposures.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second panelist identifier is different than the first panelist identifier.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining of the adjustment factor by comparing the first panelist identifier and the second panelist identifier includes:
incrementing a first count of exposures for a first demographic group associated with the first panelist identifier when the exposure is associated with the first panelist identifier;
incrementing a second count of exposures for a second demographic group associated with the second panelist identifier when the exposure is associated with the second panelist identifier, the first demographic group and the second demographic group being the same; and
dividing the first count by the second count to determine the adjustment factor.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the second count is incremented based on exposures associated with a plurality of panelist meters including the panelist meter.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the exposure occurs before detecting a second cookie identifier established by the database proprietor.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining of the first panelist identifier includes:
determining a plurality of computing sessions;
determining the first panelist identifier associated with a first subset of the computing sessions;
determining a third panelist identifier associated with a second subset of the computing sessions; and
determining that the cookie identifier is associated with the first panelist identifier because the cookie identifier is established during the first subset of the computing sessions more frequently than the cookie identifier is established during the second subset of the computing sessions.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the determining of the first panelist identifier further includes:
determining a start of an estimated computing session based on a time at which the cookie identifier is established; and
determining an end of an estimated computing session based on a time at which a second cookie identifier is established.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining the exposure of the first media has occurred includes detecting that the first media was received at the computing device.

9. The method of claim 1 , further including determining adjustment factors for each of a plurality of demographic groups, wherein applying the adjustment factor includes applying an adjustment factor for a demographic group to the number of exposures, the number of exposures determined for the demographic group.

10. The method of claim 1 , further including:
determining a first media provider and a second media provider associated with a campaign, the adjustment associated with the first media provider;
determining a second adjustment factor;
multiplying the adjustment factor by a first number of exposures determined for the first media provider to determine a first adjusted number of exposures;
multiplying the second adjustment factor by a second number of exposures determined for the second media provider to determine a second adjusted number of exposures; and
adding the first adjusted number of exposures and the second adjusted number of exposures to determine an adjusted number of exposures for the campaign.

11. The method of claim 10 , further including determining a proportion of campaign exposures associated with the first media provider, wherein the adjusted number of exposures for the campaign is determined based on the proportion of campaign exposures associated with the first media provider.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the adjustment factor is indicative of a difference between a number of exposures calculated using a plurality of panelist meters and a number of exposures calculated by the database proprietor.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first media is the same as the second media.

14. An apparatus comprising:
a cookie to panelist matcher to determine a first panelist identifier associated with a cookie identifier received at a computing device, the cookie identifier received from a database proprietor;
a partner sessions pageview analyzer to determine that a first media exposure is associated with the first panelist based on the cookie identifier;
a panelist sessions pageview analyzer to determine that the first media exposure is associated with a second panelist identifier based on a determination of a user identity; and
an adjustment factor generator to compare the first panelist identifier and the second panelist identifier to determine an adjustment factor, determine a number of exposures of second media from data logged by the database proprietor, the data logged in response to requests transmitted to the database proprietor in response to clients accessing the second media, the adjustment factor generator to apply the adjustment factor to the number of exposures to determine an adjusted number of exposures.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 , further including a panelist meter associated with the computing device to determine the user identity.

16. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the second panelist identifier is different than the first panelist identifier.

17. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein:
the partner sessions pageview analyzer is to increment a first count of exposures for a first demographic group associated with the first panelist identifier when the exposure is associated with the first panelist identifier;
the panelist sessions pageview analyzer is to increment a second count of exposure for a second demographic group associated with the second panelist identifier when the exposure is associated with the second panelist identifier, the first demographic group and the second demographic group being the same; and
the adjustment factor generator is to compare the first panelist identifier and the second panelist identifier by dividing the first count by the second count to determine the adjustment factor.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the panelist sessions pageview analyzer is to increment the second count based on exposures associated with a plurality of panelist meters including the panelist meter.

19. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the exposure occurs before the cookie to panelist matcher detects a second cookie identifier established by the database proprietor.

20. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the partner sessions pageview analyzer is to determine th

Assignees

• Nielsen Co Us Llc

Inventors

• Srivastava Seema Varma
• Oliver James R
• Donato Paul
• Mazumdar Mainak
• Aurisset Juliette
• Rao Kumar Nagaraja
• Perez Albert R
• Gaunt Josh
• Peng Yutao

Classifications

• G06Q30/0201

  Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data · CPC title

• G06F16/955

  using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL] · CPC title

• G06Q30/0277 Primary

  Online advertisement · CPC title

• G06F16/48

  Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually · CPC title

• G06Q30/0251

  Targeted advertisements · CPC title