PMP

Index Marketplaces activates the curation capabilities of DSPs, DMPs and RMNs – and the demand for their PMP deals – across Index Exchange’s network of publishers.

DEI is increasingly coming under scrutiny from activists and politicians. But some minority-owned and -targeted media and advertising businesses are thriving despite the increasingly fraught atmosphere around DEI initiatives.

Since advertisers now treat connected TV more like a digital performance channel, expect programmatic CTV demand to keep ramping up – including in the open exchange.

Yahoo’s new Blueprint feature for its DSP offers midflight optimization recommendations to meet campaign goals and help advertisers determine a person’s lifetime value and likelihood to convert.

With last year’s lingering slide in ad spend, PubMatic sees itself playing the long game by innovating in CTV and retail media, leaning into the SPO trend and adopting cookieless tech.

First-party data is bolstering Slickdeals’ direct sales efforts and offsetting an industry-wide decline in programmatic CPMs. That data is also making ad targeting more effective for its native retail media inventory as demand for retail ads ramps up.

CTV is entirely its own thing. Doggedly following display practices can cost you time and money.

ArcSpan’s new DMP, called AMS, was specifically built to organize a publisher’s first-party data into buyable contextual audiences and also highlights which audiences are likely to drive the most revenue.

In addition to buy-side integrations, content curation, proprietary ad formats and flexible pricing models are also helping set SSPs apart.

Is there a correlation between high attention scores, low emissions scores and business outcomes? To find out, Mars and Nestle-owned Nespresso are testing two new private marketplace (PMP)-based products developed by attention metrics provider Adelaide.

Sebastian Tomich, The Athletic’s chief commercial officer and a longtime fixture in the Times’ ad tech division, believes the Times can use its blueprint for building a publishing business on The Athletic. And he’s also betting that advertising is an easier sell for sports fans than news readers.

Recurrent Ventures is ramping up its focus on programmatic direct and PMPs to make up for flagging open auction revenue. Marketers now have access to Recurrent’s 28 publisher brands through Audigent’s private marketplaces.

The SSP Sharethrough partnered with attention metrics provider Adelaide to curate ad inventory packages based on attention.

Advertisers are starting to gravitate toward attention as a way to measure a campaign’s impact on the lower funnel, including conversion rate. Luxury car manufacturer Audi recently experimented with using attention metrics to algorithmically adjust programmatic bidding on ad inventory based on the amount of attention those ad placements are likely to draw. Audi then measured the impact high-attention placements had on post-click conversions.

TV advertising is undergoing a tectonic shift from programmed to programmatic. Not unlike on the open web – but unlike on linear – advertisers can use programmatic to get scale across connected TV. There’s demand for biddable CTV because buyers realize they can get more flexibility and transparent signals from publishers.

UK-based publisher LADbible Group is testing post-cookie alternatives and building its contextual targeting capabilities. But the social-first publisher has yet to be convinced that any of these alternatives will be a truly viable replacement for the much-maligned – and yet still widely used – third-party cookie.

Supply-path optimization remains a hot industry topic. Increasingly, advertisers and publishers see the value in SPO to get closer to one another’s audiences. But identity is stoking the fire on the convergence of programmatic supply and demand, writes Lauren Fisher, GM of business intelligence at Advertiser Perceptions.

The Financial Times has long avoided chasing open web programmatic ad revenue. Now, with signal loss prompting a renaissance for contextual targeting and direct deals – and with momentum behind attention metrics, of which the FT was an early proponent going back to 2015 – the publisher’s longtime strategy seems prescient. Brendan Spain, the FT’s VP of advertising for the Americas, spoke with AdExchanger.

Investment firm North Equity has amassed a portfolio of established media brands like Popular Science, Field & Stream and Saveur with a few new media upstarts mixed in, including The Drive, Task & Purpose, Donut Media and MEL Magazine. In 2021, North Equity launched Recurrent Ventures as its media division. Its CRO, Matt Young, spoke with AdExchanger about Recurrent’s acquisition strategy, its ambitions in CTV and gaming and why the company is prioritizing its private marketplace business to reduce its reliance on open web programmatic.

Video games can support intrinsic or native in-game ads, as well as ads that are delivered alongside gameplay but exist outside the game itself, like pause-menu display ads and rewarded video. Marketers can also sponsor and advertise on channels related to gaming, such as at esports events and across online streaming platforms, particularly Twitch and YouTube. And we can’t forget about the metaverse.

Google’s decision to delay third-party cookie deprecation until 2023 came the day before Salon CRO Justin Wohl’s wedding. Salon had converted its ad business to an open-web programmatic model a few years earlier, so the brief reprieve from signal loss came as a huge relief and another reason to pop some champagne. Since then, Wohl has been laying the groundwork for effective post-cookie monetization on the open web.

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.

The Ad Council said Thursday it has launched a programmatic private marketplace (PMP) for public service announcements related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This initiative is its first major foray into donated programmatic media, though it has experimented with targeting audiences on social and specific publishers. The Ad Council coordinates public service advertising campaigns for a […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jason Boshoff, chief operating officer at Bidtellect. If an advertiser’s primary objective is to hit a numeric KPI or a first- or third-party audience to achieve one, does it make sense to pay two to […]

Remember when Hulu opened its automated private marketplace at the beginning of 2019? Turns out Telaria is the vendor that’s powering it. As part of a two-year deal, Hulu will use Telaria’s tech to enable its PMP for advertising across all screens, the video ad platform said Wednesday – from the big one in the […]

The Big Story is a breezy podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. On “The Big Story” this week, the team stirs some alphabet soup. Rejuvenated after the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas to worship at the mighty […]

On Jan. 1, 2019, Hulu will release an automated private marketplace that will allow advertisers to bid on Hulu inventory without going through the additional steps of working with Hulu’s sales team. Instead, advertisers can use their own DSPs or trading desks to plug into the marketplace. The PMP will initially house standard 30-second spots, […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community.  Today’s column is written by Michael Lehman, vice president of supply at TripleLift. The original promise of PMPs was impossibly compelling: Marry the high CPMs, large revenues and control of direct sales with the efficiency and data of programmatic […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, COO at Goodway Group. In the past two weeks, I’ve been to two supply-side platform (SSP) summits and spoken in depth to more than a dozen publishers. I’ve learned a lot. In short, […]

Ad buyers are turning to a tool called curated marketplaces to get more reach for their private marketplaces. Curated marketplaces let buyers set up a group deal ID across several publishers based on likeminded attributes. Supply side platform SpotX first developed them in 2015, and they’re gaining more traction with buyers. Of the 65% of its […]