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WTF is traffic shaping? 

Digiday

Traffic shaping has been used within the ad tech industry for a while, particularly by supply-side platforms (SSPs) and demand-side platforms (DSPs) filtering out available programmatic ad inventory that isn’t quite up to snuff before passing them along to media buyers and advertisers.

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Should I run AdX only, Header bidding only or both?

Monetize More

Run them both together, Ad Exchange and header bidding. With Ad Exchange and Header Bidding competing in a publisher’s ad stack, all your ad inventory is ensured to be monetized as efficiently as possible. AdX, short for Ad Exchange, is an advertising marketplace and programmatic platform developed by Google.

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Great programmatic ad strategies on Meta for 2024

illumin

Meta already makes it incredibly easy to include their ads in your programmatic approach; Facebook ads purchased directly from Facebook’s ad inventory are delivered programmatically. Ad strategies on Meta with a DSP Many marketers don’t feel a need to use a demand-side platform to buy Meta ads.

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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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How to Win a Board Game Full of Ad Ops Burning Challenges

Ad Monsters

Meet Vladimir Lyubarskiy, Oxagile’s Chief Solution Architect, who’s an old hand at this game, continually interacting with ad tech clients, knowing their reasons for frustration inside out, and helping them deal with it. Making a bad bargain is likely to happen if not to generate different inventory package prices.

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Why In-house Programmatic Is Not Always a Good Idea

YieldBird

Programmatic advertising has become an integral part of digital marketing strategies, with companies investing heavily in this automated buying and selling of ad inventory. Creating a robust programmatic infrastructure requires substantial investment in technology, including demand-side platforms and brand safety tools.

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What is Programmatic Media Buying?

AdvertiseMint

This exchange then evaluates the user data and matches it with the criteria set by advertisers on demand-side platforms. Within milliseconds, the highest bidding ad from the advertisers is selected and displayed to the user. Other types, like programmatic direct, involve reserved ad inventory for specific advertisers.

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