arXiv:2505.10791cs.CYcs.AI2025-05中稿 · COMPASS 2025

分析印度报纸广告模式,发现广告投入与报道偏袒存在显著关联。

Analyzing Patterns and Influence of Advertising in Print Newspapers

  • 通过图像处理和OCR技术提取12,000+期报纸中的数百万条广告数据。
  • 六年来印刷广告量稳定,政府广告贡献远超其占比,头部版面广告集中。
  • 企业广告越多,媒体正面报道越多,该关系跨地区、跨时间持续存在。

本文采用数据驱动方法,研究印度多家报纸的广告实践。我们开发了一套图像处理与OCR流程,从数字化印刷报纸中高精度提取文章与广告内容。针对覆盖多个地区、三种语言(英语、印地语、泰卢固语)的五份主流报纸,构建了包含超过12,000期、数百万条广告的数据集,这些报纸总读者量超一亿。基于此数据,我们系统回答了广告主体、内容、时间、位置及形式等关键问题。研究发现:尽管印刷发行量下降,过去六年广告总量保持稳定;公司类广告在显要版面过度集中;政府广告收入占比远高于其市场地位。进一步通过回归分析检验广告是否影响报道量与情感倾向,结果表明对企业广告商而言,广告投入越大,获得的媒体报道越积极、越广泛,且该关系在不同地区与广告主知名度下均保持稳健。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This paper investigates advertising practices in print newspapers across India using a novel data-driven approach. We develop a pipeline employing image processing and OCR techniques to extract articles and advertisements from digital versions of print newspapers with high accuracy. Applying this methodology to five popular newspapers that span multiple regions and three languages, English, Hindi, and Telugu, we assembled a dataset of more than 12,000 editions containing several hundred thousand advertisements. Collectively, these newspapers reach a readership of over 100 million people. Using this extensive dataset, we conduct a comprehensive analysis to answer key questions about print advertising: who advertises, what they advertise, when they advertise, where they place their ads, and how they advertise. Our findings reveal significant patterns, including the consistent level of print advertising over the past six years despite declining print circulation, the overrepresentation of company ads on prominent pages, and the disproportionate revenue contributed by government ads. Furthermore, we examine whether advertising in a newspaper influences the coverage an advertiser receives. Through regression analyses on coverage volume and sentiment, we find strong evidence supporting this hypothesis for corporate advertisers. The results indicate a clear trend where increased advertising correlates with more favorable and extensive media coverage, a relationship that remains robust over time and across different levels of advertiser popularity.

广告分析媒体影响数据挖掘印刷媒体

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