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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 excessively high bids from PubMatic’s error affected only a small portion of ad impressions.

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

Ad Monsters

According to the Epom client survey, 71% of programmatic agencies prioritize performance over reach. 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. Likewise, demand-side platforms add CPC bidding as an option.

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

MNTN

Programmatic advertising has enabled a myriad of businesses to advertise across platforms without having to engage an expensive third party like an advertising agency. The DSP will work to find available impressions that fit within all of these criteria. An ad exchange is a marketplace of ad impressions. What is a DSP?

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Understanding the Basics of Bid Shading

Basis

more than the second-highest bid on an impression (think the eBay model). For example, if two buyers bid $10 and $5, respectively, then the buyer who bid $10 will win the impression—but they’ll only pay $5.01. Easy: any agency or brand (regardless of industry) looking to gain more efficient CPMs. Enter bid shading.

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Media Buying Briefing: How TikTok agencies work — and why they don’t fear a U.S. ban of the app

Digiday

New agencies blurring the lines between media and creative, as well as brand and performance, are increasingly specialized in the art of TikTok advertising. But there isn’t a one-size fits all approach to advertising on the short-form video app, according to five agencies that spoke to Digiday.

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Netflix lets advertisers take their money back after missing viewership targets

Digiday

Netflix is falling short of ad-supported viewership guarantees made to advertisers and allowing advertisers to take their money back for ads that have yet to run, according to five agency executives. So they’re literally giving the money back,” said one of the agency executives. A Netflix spokesperson declined to comment.

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How much ad revenue can apps generate?

Monetize More

Every brand, organization, or agency seems to have an app these days. Ad revenue = ad impressions multiplied by eCPM. The revenue from gaming ads is estimated by multiplying the number of impressions an ad receives on an ad platform by the eCPM. per impression. Structure of CPM Pricing. What exactly is ad revenue?

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