The 2024 election will break advertising and fundraising records, with the Presidential election, every seat in the House and a razor-thin Senate majority on the line. Ad Impact, a political research company, forecasts 2024 US political cycle spend to cross the $10 billion mark for the first time ever. But with that kind of money […]
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The TV term du jour is supply-path optimization. And SSPs in particular are under intense pressure to carve out competitive edges.
The supply-path optimization trend is catching on with video publishers, including the AVOD platform Future Today.
Supply-side platforms are under intense pressure to prove unique value or hit the chopping block. And Magnite is using connected TV as its competitive edge.
TV fragmentation is only getting worse. And, according to FreeWheel’s newly promoted chief product officer, troubleshooting means simplification.
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How should the ad industry treat consumers’ call for data privacy? The IAB, ANA and 4A’s are at odds on how to tackle a thorny issue.
Havas Media named FreeWheel a preferred SSP partner for premium video for two reasons: transparency and supply path optimization.
Sustainability was a hot topic for the advertising industry in 2022. The momentum will only grow in 2023, though decarbonization remains a multiyear journey.
In 2022, SPO solutions largely revolved around creating direct connections to so-called premium publishers. But machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) also took on a bigger role in SPO this year. And 2022 was the year the ad industry began touting SPO as the solution of choice for sustainability-focused marketers.
Dramatic shifts in consumer viewing habits during the pandemic have led, predictably, to an intense focus on the corresponding connected TV (CTV) advertising opportunity. CTV ad spend is growing leaps and bounds – and for good reason. But for continuation of that growth to be warranted, there are a number of enhancements that must be brought to bear.
SSPs had traditionally been among the first in the ad tech ecosystem to build profitable businesses. But their future in the programmatic tech stack is uncertain because they’ve evolved from publisher-centric technologies to demand aggregation businesses, often competing with their biggest customers: buy-side platforms or DSPs.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Has Lifetime Value Timed Out? It was the best of LTV, it was the worst of LTV. In mobile marketing, lifetime value (LTV) has long been considered a key metric for many data-savvy marketers. But times are changing, writes Eric Seufert at Mobile Dev […]
Programmatic advertising can be notoriously complex. But in the streaming category in particular, there is ample opportunity to improve transparency, revenue and user experience — namely, supply-path optimization and better data technology, writes Troy Bubley, co-founder and president of diDNA.
Tremor International has been on a journey to rebuild its biz with assets on both the buy and sell sides of digital media. And with its acquisition of Amobee announced earlier this week, Tremor is now making inroads into linear inventory. Tremor International CEO Ofer Druker spoke with AdExchanger about the company’s plans for its most recent acquisition.
The Trade Desk’s OpenPath gives advertisers a direct link with premium publishers, collapsing the supply chain from the DSP directly to the publisher’s inventory. While a win under the guise of supply path optimization, it also spells danger for SSPs, the traditional guardians of publisher inventory who now risk being squeezed out entirely, writes Joseph Lospalluto, US Country Manager of ShowHeroes Group.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All Systems Ro’ Roku insiders are abuzz about a potential acquisition by Netflix, Insider reports. There’s no firm reporting of a deal, or even of negotiations. But two employees say Roku abruptly closed the trading window to sell vested stock. That kind of trading […]
Go to any SSP or DSP website and you’re likely to see a mention of programmatic “premium.” But programmatic premium shouldn’t stop at inventory – ad tech companies should also be supplying premium service to make sure advertisers can actually optimize their buys by maximizing the value of that premium inventory, writes Steve Pelletier, SVP of strategic partnerships & corp development at FatTail.
The complexity and lack of transparency in the programmatic ad buying ecosystem makes it hard to understand who you’re buying from and how big of a bite they’re taking out of a buyer’s ad spend. Hence the need for supply path optimization (SPO). Simply put, SPO is about buyers identifying the most efficient connections and using them to transact with sellers. The goal is to stop buying through inefficient or expensive paths to supply.
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The Trade Desk’s OpenPath demonstrates supply path optimization (SPO) is moving from concept to reality. But what does it practically mean for publishers or yield teams tasked with driving business KPIs? The question is to whom SPO is important, writes Emry DowningHall, SVP of programmatic revenue and strategy at Unwind Media.
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Romain Job, Chief Strategy Officer, Smart AdServer. With our programmatic marketplace becoming increasingly unwieldy, the challenge of identity resolution in a privacy-first, consent-based marketplace has made curation essential. What is curation? Simply put, it’s […]
Programmatic advertising used to be an afterthought for The Associated Press. AP, the largest and oldest newswire service in the US, makes the majority of its revenue through a subscription fee that news organizations pay for to access vetted content. But there’s no reason why an entity founded in 1846 can’t also optimize its supply […]
GroupM wants to move from using 40 to 50 supply partners globally to five to six partners. As part of that push to consolidate its programmatic supply chain, it struck a global deal with the SSP PubMatic. “We want to use our scale effectively to help clients,” said Andrew Meaden, global head of investment at […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Marc Goldberg, CRO at Method Media Intelligence. Supply-path optimization (SPO) is yet another vague ad tech initialism, the definition of which changes depending on who is speaking. Most people think […]
District M and Sharethrough will merge to form a single exchange covering native, display, mobile, instream and video. Their combined scale serves a dual purpose. First, it puts them in a better position with buyers, who are working with fewer, but larger exchanges. Second, the two companies will double their revenue, putting them in a […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Chris Kane, founder at Jounce Media. Depending on when you start the clock, we’re now two to three years into the first wave of supply path optimization (SPO). Here’s what we’ve learned […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Craig Aron, SVP of growth and strategic business development at Bidtellect. Never has it been clearer that the programmatic ecosystem is in need of reform. As Archimedes once articulated, the shortest path between two […]
