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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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The Crazy Advertising Technology Landscape

InMobi

They’ll either use proprietary technology or a Demand Side Platform (DSP) to buy and optimize media campaigns on ad exchanges, ad networks and other available inventory sources they are connected with. Verification Tech Verification services add an additional layer of tech to each ad campaign.