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

Ad Monsters

Are demand-side platforms to blame for underperforming traffic? 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. Switch the Bidding Model to CPC RTB auctions are initially based on CPM pricing.

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DV360 Accepts The IAB Tech Lab’s New Video Guidelines. How Will That Impact Buyer Demand For Video Ads?

AdExchanger

Buyers will soon have far more transparency into video ad inventory sold through Google’s platform. Google confirmed to AdExchanger that DV360, its demand-side platform, has already adopted the IAB Tech Lab’s new video.plcmt field in OpenRTB bid requests.

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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. Hundreds of businesses were affected, including ad agencies, demand-side platforms, ad networks, SSPs, data providers, ad verification services, and more.

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

MNTN

DSP stands for a demand-side platform. Where a supply-side platform is a tool for publishers, a DSP is a piece of software that allows advertisers to access available advertising inventory. SSPs typically use dynamic pricing models to maximize publisher revenues, adjusting prices based on market demand.

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Top DSP Features You Should Consider Before You Start Your Programmatic Campaigns

RevX

Finding the right Demand Side Platform (DSP) for your needs is not easy, but it's crucial to running successful digital marketing campaigns. To help you better analyze the capability of different Demand Side Platforms, we are dividing this article into two parts. 3) Platform Focus.

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Understanding the Basics of Bid Shading

Basis

While this represents a more attractive model for publishers, advertisers may find themselves overspending and paying an increased average cost per 1,000 impressions (CPM). A compromise between the two models, bid shading is an optimization tactic available in most enterprise demand side platforms (DSPs).

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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.