用统一模型同时优化播客广告和推广,解决冷启动难题。
Cold-Starting Podcast Ads and Promotions with Multi-Task Learning on Spotify
- 多任务学习共享用户、内容等特征表示,联合优化流媒体、点击等目标。
- 线上测试显示,低播放量播客的每流成本降低22%,播放率提升18%-24%。
- 适合需要快速部署新广告目标的平台方,提升系统可维护性。
我们提出一种统一的多目标模型,用于 Spotify 播客生态中的广告与推广精准投放。针对个性化推荐和新广告目标冷启动难题,该方法在多任务学习(MTL)框架下,利用大规模广告与内容交互进行迁移学习,使单一联合模型可直接或微调应用于新任务,包括应用内推广。该模型通过共享用户、内容、上下文及创意特征表示,联合优化广告与推广的播放量、点击率、关注数等指标,有效支持多元商业目标并提升用户体验。在线 A/B 测试显示,有效每流成本(eCPS)最高降低 22%,尤其在低播放量播客中表现显著;播放率提升 18%-24%。离线实验与消融分析验证了辅助目标及特征组对冷启动性能的贡献。实际应用表明,统一建模策略提升了系统可维护性、冷启动能力与覆盖范围,打破以往孤立的投放管道。本文还讨论了真实广告系统中此类联合模型的实用权衡。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We present a unified multi-objective model for targeting both advertisements and promotions within the Spotify podcast ecosystem. Our approach addresses key challenges in personalization and cold-start initialization, particularly for new advertising objectives. By leveraging transfer learning from large-scale ad and content interactions within a multi-task learning (MTL) framework, a single joint model can be fine-tuned or directly applied to new or low-data targeting tasks, including in-app promotions. This multi-objective design jointly optimizes podcast outcomes such as streams, clicks, and follows for both ads and promotions using a shared representation over user, content, context, and creative features, effectively supporting diverse business goals while improving user experience. Online A/B tests show up to a 22% reduction in effective Cost-Per-Stream (eCPS), particularly for less-streamed podcasts, and an 18-24% increase in podcast stream rates. Offline experiments and ablations highlight the contribution of ancillary objectives and feature groups to cold-start performance. Our experience shows that a unified modeling strategy improves maintainability, cold-start performance, and coverage, while breaking down historically siloed targeting pipelines. We discuss practical trade-offs of such joint models in a real-world advertising system.
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