OpenPath

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The Trade Desk recently made waves with the rollout of OpenPath, its direct-to-publisher offering, and its plan to turn off Google Open Bidding, a one-two punch in supply path optimization (SPO). Both of these SPO moves could reshuffle the ad buying ecosystem, making publishers less reliant on SSPs and cutting off a revenue source for Google’s Open Bidding.

Supply-path optimization (SPO) is one of three key growth strategies for PubMatic this year, Rajeev Goel, PubMatic’s CEO and co-founder, told investors during the company’s Q4 earnings call on Monday. Omnichannel and audience addressability are the other two top priorities.

The Trade Desk’s OpenPath demonstrates supply path optimization (SPO) is moving from concept to reality. But what does it practically mean for publishers or yield teams tasked with driving business KPIs? The question is to whom SPO is important, writes Emry DowningHall, SVP of programmatic revenue and strategy at Unwind Media.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. OpenPath … To Cutting Out SSPs Wait, did The Trade Desk just disintermediate SSPs? A new product called OpenPath apparently allows advertisers to directly connect to a handful of enterprise publishers, effectively cutting out Google Open Bidding (and everyone else) in the process. […]