Abstract:
Systems and methods for determining a bid landscape for a content placement campaign are provided. A system identifies, for a content placement provider, serving parameters that define an inventory of content serving opportunities. The system creates bid buckets that have bid ranges. The system identifies a portion of the inventory to participate in bid discovery. The system selects, for each opportunity identified to participate, a bid value from within a bid bucket of the bid buckets. The bid value is provided as a bid for an auction to serve content in the opportunity. The system stores, for each of the identified content serving opportunities, the selected bid value and a result of the auction in which the selected bid value was provided as a bid. The system then determines an impression rate for each identified bid bucket and generates, from the determined impression rates, a bid landscape for the inventory.