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What is Header Bidding and How it Works?

Automatad Inc.

Header bidding was conceptualized in 2014 and went mainstream in 2016. It begins loading as soon as the webpage loads in the user’s browsers by connecting to its supply-side platforms for bids before the ad server is called. These bid requests are made either directly by the user’s browser or via an ad server.

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What Is Demand Path Optimization (DPO)?

Clearcode

Demand-path optimization (DPO) is the process of evaluating and improving the way advertisers buy ad space from publishers. The most important benefits for publishers are increasing transparency in the media-supply chain and eliminating bad actors, e.g. ad fraudsters. Key Points. How Does Demand-Path Optimization Work?

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Google Creates a Bold Alternative to Header Bidding

MediaFuse

In April of 2016, Google turned the ad tech world on its head when it announced that it was in the process of testing a pilot program that would give all bidders equal footing in the competition for ad inventory on websites. Historically, it has been used by competitors of Google to reclaim their stake in the auctions.

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Case Study: How we created Adblock Bypass and raised StarLightMedia’s programmatic ad sales by 50%

Adtelligent

Adtelligent also won awards as one of the fastest-growing US companies in 2016. By implementing it, any website can sell advertising space through an open auction. The one offering the best price will get this ad space. Supply Side Platform (SSP) can totally replace the ad management on the website and app.

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Understanding the Complicated World of Advertising Technology (AdTech) & Programmatic Advertising

Clearcode

For those of you who haven’t heard about Clearcode before, we’re a software development company that specializes in designing and building advertising and marketing technologies, such as ad servers , DSPs , SSPs , CDPs , etc. The first ever ad server was invented by a company called FocaLink Media Services in 1995.

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What is OpenRTB & How Does It Work?

Lemonads

Its efficiency, along with its advantages for both advertisers (quick access to competitively priced ad space) and publishers (greater yield on inventory combined with data monetization possibilities), have pushed RTB and programmatic to new heights. It’s not hard to see where the popularity of the OpenRTB protocol has come from.