Auto-bidding and Auctions in Online Advertising: A Survey

Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru Varadaraja
Ariel Schvartzman
Hanrui Zhang
Kelly Spendlove
Georgios Piliouras
Haihao (Sean) Lu
Andres Perlroth
Christopher Liaw
Mingfei Zhao
ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 22 (2024)

Abstract

In this survey, we summarize recent developments in research fueled by the growing adoption of automated bidding strategies in online advertising. We explore the challenges and opportunities that have arisen as markets embrace this autobidding and cover a range of topics in this area, including bidding algorithms, equilibrium analysis and efficiency of common auction formats, and optimal auction design.