Abstract:
An advertising system receives an advertisement from a merchant system and receives data from a call center associated with the merchant system and with the advertisement. The advertising system determines a call center occupancy at the merchant system call center. The advertising system determines a first bid for an advertising space auction based on the call center occupancy and transmits the first bid to an advertising platform hosting the advertising space auction. The advertising system receives a notice of progress of the advertising space auction from the advertising platform system. If the advertising space auction is still open, the advertising system determines the current call center capacity and adjusts the first bid for the auction based on the current call center capacity. The advertisement is displayed on a user computing device. When a user selects the advertisement, the user computing device dials the merchant system call center.