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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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6 Questions About Made-For-Advertising Websites

Basis

Below, Pamuk breaks down how MFAs work, and shares insights on how advertisers can avoid low-quality ad inventory before a campaign starts. These sites are built just to generate traffic: They usually pay for traffic to their site and then generate multiple ad impressions on each page.

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Supply Side Platform (SSP): What Is It and How Does It Work?

MNTN

So again, an SSP facilitates digital advertising by automating the sale of ad inventory from publishers to advertisers. Connection to Demand Sources : The SSP connects to various demand sources, including Demand Side Platforms (DSPs), ad exchanges, and directly with advertisers, expanding the potential buyer pool for the ad inventory.

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What’s the Difference Between SPO and DPO?

Clearcode

Demand-path optimization (DPO) and supply-path optimization (SPO) are processes designed to organize an efficient path to an ad inventory from both the publisher’s and the advertiser’s ends. Supply-path optimization (SPO) is when demand-side platforms (DSP) try to improve the path to ad inventory.

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Why SSP consolidation driven by agencies is benefiting the larger SSPs

Digiday

It’s from a large media agency network that’s reviewing the marketplace solution it put in place several years ago, said one ad exec with knowledge of the brief. In its place, the agency wants to work with SSPs that can reduce redundant, suboptimal and low-quality supply paths.

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Ad Exchange: What Is It and How Does It Work?

MNTN

In other words, it acts as a marketplace that sits in between publishers looking to sell their inventory and advertisers looking to buy it. Here’s how it typically works: Integration with SSPs : Publishers use supply-side platforms (SSPs) to connect their available ad inventory to the ad exchange.

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Viewer’s Attention Metric: How It Can Change the Game for Publishers

Automatad Inc.

Impressions, clicks, and ad viewability are scrutinized for their limitations in measuring ad performance. Attention metrics are gaining traction for providing granular insights, going beyond indicating that the ad is seen. They provide data on whether the audience has interacted with the ad or had its impact on them.