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

Ad Monsters

A spokesperson for the SSP said that the anomaly occurred at one of its US data centers, causing publisher ad servers to receive abnormally high CPMs on a limited number of impressions. ” The Butterfly Effect is strong even in ad tech. The error lasted for 40 seconds on March 15 and had by then been resolved.

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The Crazy Advertising Technology Landscape

InMobi

The media agency can choose to implement additional layers of reporting and verification tech to their campaigns. For instance, an ad server is a technology platform that can host and serve display ads, along with providing reporting and other important campaign analytics. What specific websites/apps the ad ran on.