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<b>Call for Workshop Papers</b></div>
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<b> The 19th Edition of AdKDD - AdKDD 2025</b></div>
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<b>in conjunction with</b></div>
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<b>The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2025)</b></div>
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<b>Toronto, Canada, August 3rd - 7th, 2025</b></div>
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<b>http://www.adkdd.org</b></div>
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As of the second quarter of 2024, the worldwide internet user spent more than 6.5 hours daily across all devices interacting with online content almost entirely sponsored by advertisements. At almost $700B global market size in 2024, and expected to reach $870B
by 2027, digital advertising has already surpassed traditional ads in global spending and continues to grow. Digital advertising and in particular computational advertising is perhaps the most visible and ubiquitous application of machine learning and one
that interacts directly with consumers. When done right, ads connect us to opportunities to enrich our lives and creep us out when done badly. Recently at the forefront of political battles between governments, large multinational corporations, and consumers,
digital advertising remains a dynamic industry and research area. </div>
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Looking at the published literature over the last few years, many researchers might consider computational advertising as a mature field. Yet, the opposite is true. Computational advertising is evolving from simple rule-based ads controlled by monolithic publishers
and randomly rotating banner ads to highly personalized content experiences within native, video, and display formats on mobile devices, connected TV, and audio—all utilizing data amassed from petabytes of stored user data collected increasingly through inferred
identity providers. The increasing use of sequence models and the rise of Generative AI is spawning new directions such as the auto-generation of ad creatives or pay-for-use shopping assistants. Ads are far from done.</div>
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The AdKDD workshops have had a lot of interest and success in the past years. A total of eighteen workshops have been organized every year since 2007, focusing on highlighting state-of-the-art advances in computational advertising. All the workshops were well
attended, often with standing room only, and very well received both by the academic community and the advertising industry. We look forward to seeing you in-person to discuss the past, present, and future of computational advertising!</div>
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<u>Topics:</u></div>
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The workshop focuses on three main aspects of computational advertising.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Evolution of computational advertising:</span> Online advertising has progressed beyond the notion of traditional desktop ads to ads that are native, social, mobile, and contextual. In tandem, the rise of new mechanisms, such
as header bidding, complex ad exchanges, repeated auctions, ad blockers, viewability trackers, and increasing application of Graph-based NN and Generative AI models, challenge the traditional notions of advertising. There also continue to exist controversial
issues in advertising, such as privacy, security, fraud, ethics, and economic attribution. We invite papers that are focused on some of the above aspects.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Large-scale and novel ad targeting:</span> Recent advances in real-time, big data systems, and easier accessibility to different types of data make it possible to design more personalized and efficient ad targeting systems. We
invite papers that advance the state-of-the-art in related areas of ad targeting. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Deployed systems & battle scars:</span> We particularly encourage papers that highlight experience in deploying real-time ad targeting systems, data, and audience insights, as well as position papers on the future of online advertising.</div>
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<u>Submission Instructions:</u></div>
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Following the KDD conference tradition, reviews are single-blind, and author names and affiliations should be listed. Submitted papers will be assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, insightfulness, depth, clarity, and reproducibility.
For each accepted paper, at least one author must attend the workshop and present the paper. </div>
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Submissions are limited to a total of six pages, including all content and references, must be in PDF format, and formatted according to the new Standard ACM Conference Proceedings Template. Additional information about formatting and style files is available
<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a href="http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template" id="OWA4ea3c389-4bb7-4a4c-e91e-8026be6c2231" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">here</a></u></span>.</div>
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All accepted papers will be archived on the AdKDD website, and we are also working on having them published in official proceedings as well. </div>
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Please note: All of the attendees need to register through the main conference of KDD. In addition, in line with earlier KDD workshops, we do not provide separate registration only for the workshop itself. </div>
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<u>Important Deadlines (anywhere on Earth):</u></div>
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Submission : May 25th, 2025</div>
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Decisions : June 9th, 2025</div>
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Camera-ready : June 15th, 2025</div>
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Video Submission: July 23rd, 2025</div>
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Workshop : August 6th, 2025</div>
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<u>Submission Website:</u></div>
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<u><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adkdd2025" id="OWA5928f203-476b-3292-3db0-49c1e73a04cd" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adkdd2025</a></u></div>
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<u>Program Committee Chairs:</u></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/abagher" id="OWA6e7eaca9-07fe-a727-c7ea-8bb745610ce4" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Abraham Bagherjeiran</a></span> (eBay)</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://djurikom.github.io/" id="OWAf9712869-6da4-2009-37b1-b136112e24d1" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Nemanja Djuric</a></span> (Aurora Innovation)</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="http://vision.ucsd.edu/~leekc/" id="OWA4b6aecc5-dec8-1a72-9dc8-8f197952eac4" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Kuang-chih Lee</a></span> (Walmart)</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/linsey-pang-50590450" id="OWAd4c5ba98-4c0e-84af-9c6c-5da1ed4f0137" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Linsey Pang</a></span> (Salesforce)</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/suju-rajan-9b56581" id="OWA32c3f102-69cc-439b-f7a0-e1afdc2e23e8" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Suju Rajan</a></span> (Amazon)</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladan-radosavljevic-69244265/" id="OWA154a12c1-6a8d-d08f-bd08-5b154c712a55" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Vladan Radosavljevic</a></span> (Spotify)</div>
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For further questions please contact the organizers at <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">
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