Prebid Takes Over AdCP’s Code For Creating Sell-Side AI Agents
The group that turned header bidding software into an open standard is bringing the same approach to publisher-side AI agents.
The group that turned header bidding software into an open standard is bringing the same approach to publisher-side AI agents.
Advertising’s “agentic” future is a compelling vision, but one that relies on capabilities that do not exist yet. AdCP may one day make buying easier, but it will not make buying better by itself.
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It won’t fail because the protocol is bad; it will fail because you’ve been sold a simplistic dream – a “universal API” for ad tech – and that’s what you’re budgeting for.
Understanding where AI agents make financial sense today is the difference between building a sustainable competitive advantage and burning through your margins in pursuit of buzzwords.
The AI advertising agents will need their own trade group eventually. For now though, a bunch of companies are forming the Ad Context Protocol, or AdCP.