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A Pubmatic Server Anomaly, $1 Billion CPMs, and a Complicated Programmatic Ecosystem

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After some ad experts investigated the programmatic ad auction, they found that some advertisers were bidding at rates as high as $1 billion. While the cost looked high, no real ad dollars were spent. Experts expect the financial repercussions for individual publishers and ad tech firms will be insignificant.

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