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DSP, SSP, and Ad Exchange: What’s the Difference?

MNTN

Understanding programmatic advertising is understanding the individual technologies that combine to create it: DSP, SSP, and ad exchanges being key components. Programmatic advertising has enabled a myriad of businesses to advertise across platforms without having to engage an expensive third party like an advertising agency.

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What Is Ad Exchange and How Does it Work – A Guide for Publishers

Automatad Inc.

Global spending on digital ads keeps increasing yearly and will reach $650 billion in 2024. Ad exchanges play a major role in distributing these ads. In the ad tech ecosystem, many publishers and advertisers use ad exchanges, and 994,727 companies use ad exchange software , but few can explain what an ad exchange is.

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5 DSP Tweaks to Increase Programmatic Performance From an Expert Media Buyer

Ad Monsters

Are demand-side platforms to blame for underperforming traffic? Instead of buying traffic resold by intermediaries at subpar CPA or CPC rates, agency-employed media buyers can tweak their CTR and conversion rates directly in the platform. Switch the Bidding Model to CPC RTB auctions are initially based on CPM pricing.

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Introduction to Programmatic Advertising | What is Programmatic Advertising?

Ad Ops Hero

Multiple platforms exist for programmatic, such as sell-side platforms (SSPs) and demand-side platforms (DSPs), allowing advertisers to buy ad inventory across an open network of platforms. This platform encompasses both DSPs and ad exchanges. Demand-side platform.

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B2B Programmatic Advertising: Complete Guide for Marketers

MNTN

And in the case of B2B digital advertising, those two respective parties are the advertiser seeking to serve their ads to specific audiences, and a publisher with the digital ad space to display those ads. In other words, it’s an automated buying platform that buys ad space through an ad exchange for a predetermined price.

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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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What is Real-Time Bidding (RTB) and how does it work?

Lemonads

RTB (Real time bidding) is an automated digital auction process that allows advertisers to bid on an ad space from publishers on a cost per thousand impressions or CMP basis. Those auctions are often facilitated by ad exchanges or supply-side platforms, so let’s check which platforms RTB involves!