Abstract:
An online system generates a custom audience for an advertiser from an advertiser-provided list of customers. In order to generate the custom audience, the online system determines a set of attributes corresponding to a received match priority selection and performs a match of the customers with users of the online system based on the determined set of attributes. The custom audience is supplemented with street addresses associated with the matched users of the online system. Content specific to the determined street addresses may then be provided to the matched users.
Abstract:
An online system matches a user with a user of a third party system by comparing user identifying information maintained by the online system with user identifying information maintained by the third party system. To determine how accurately different types of user identifying information identify an online system user, types of user identifying information maintained by the online system are compared to types of user identifying information maintained by the third party system. A score is associated with various online system users based on the number of types of user identifying information associated with the user by the online system matching types of user identifying information associated with a third party system user. Based on the scores associated with different users, a measure of accuracy in identifying an online system user is determined for each type of user identifying information.
Abstract:
An online system receives information describing a target group of online system users from a third party system and stores the information describing the target group. The online system subsequently uses the target group to select content for presentation to one or more users. For example, users included in the target group are identified as eligible to be presented with content items. Based on revenue obtained by the online system from presenting content based on the target group, the online system determines a monetization value for the target group. The online system determines whether to continue storing the information describing the target group based on the monetization value.