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UK finally opens antitrust probe of Google’s role in the adtech stack

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“The CMA is assessing whether Google’s practices in these parts of the ad tech stack may distort competition. “The CMA is also concerned that Google may have used its publisher ad server and its DSPs to illegally favour its own ad exchange services, while taking steps to exclude the services offered by rivals.”

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Omnichannel DSPs vs Specialized DSPs: How to Choose Between the Two

InMobi

When selecting a demand-side platform (DSP) for your programmatic campaigns, should you choose an omnichannel DSP or a more specialized DSP? This gives advertisers the ability to buy media across multiple ad exchanges. DSPs also often centralize ad bidding and reporting in one interface. That all depends.

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Understanding the Basics of Bid Shading

Basis

In the formative years of programmatic advertising , second-price auctions were the industry standard—a crucial component in helping build the online ad marketplace as we know it today. Much like eBay , ad exchanges saw second-price auctions as a better, more accurate valuation of publishers’ inventory. Enter bid shading.

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Understanding the Basics of Bid Shading

Basis

In the formative years of programmatic advertising , second-price auctions were the industry standard—a crucial component in helping build the online ad marketplace as we know it today. Much like eBay , ad exchanges saw second-price auctions as a better, more accurate valuation of publishers’ inventory. Enter bid shading.

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Why we care about adtech: The complete guide

Martech

Adtech comprises two primary platforms: demand and supply-side. While demand-side platforms (DSPs) are used by digital advertising buyers to manage programmatic ad buying, supply-side platforms (SSPs) are used by publishers to sell digital ads in online auctions.

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Best Practices for Scaling Your Mobile Performance Advertising Campaigns

InMobi

Performance advertisers would leverage social media (including Facebook and Twitter ads), search engine marketing and a wide variety of ad networks and ad exchanges to reach just about everyone. Some down-funnel demand-side platforms ensure marketing are paying only for those that actually use their app.

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The WIR: Publicis Plans €300 Million AI Investment, Skydance Media Makes a Bid for Paramount, and Sky’s UK&I CEO Steps Down

VideoWeek

Index Exchange Announces Omnichannel Platform ‘Marketplaces’ Index Exchange, an ad exchange business, has announced a new omnichannel platform called Marketplaces. The company is reportedly in discussions with Egmont, Schibsted and Bonnier, which sold TV4 Group to Telia for SEK10 billion in 2019.

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