Large audience sizes of the client TV network have placed our client, in turn, in a dominant position regarding market share among open broadcast networks. In this context, the strong demand serviced by our client had saturated occupation levels of several segments on the programming grid.
In this scenario, the issues to be solved were the following:
- How to configure the advertising grid to maximize revenue.
- Acquiring the capability to simulate the effect of different segment configurations and program performances on the forecasted audience.
- Determine optimal commercial ad placements.
In sum, the goal was not to attain a solution to find a good configuration by trial and error. On the other hand, it was intended to empower our client with a system capable of automatically recommending optimal ad placement to maximize economic profit.