supply side platforms

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All Work And No Pure-Play … Nobody wants to be an SSP anymore. But is supply-side ad tech really in such bad shape?  Index Exchange is the loudest – if not the only – voice still backing the pure-play publisher ad tech role. Co-founder […]

Deal IDs are helping publishers package their audience data while providing advertisers the flexibility and transparency that they’ve desired for so long, writes Tony Mowad, VP of business development at Bombora.

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is written by Jonathan Teitloff, director of product management at TripleLift. Don’t go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the bidders and the auctions that you’re used to. Ultimately, we know that you’re going to have it your […]

The supply-side platform Index Exchange and WPP’s media buying unit GroupM are approaching publishers with an unusual partnership. According to three publishers who were briefed about the deal, GroupM will begin to rout a majority of its demand through Index Exchange as part of a supply-path optimization (SPO) effort. Concentrating demand on Index’s pipes will […]

Slow-loading ads are still a perennial problem for publishers. Wise Publishing, a Toronto-based publisher of personal finance content with around 5 million monthly unique visitors, acquires a significant portion of its traffic through paid channels. But if an ad loads slowly and a visitor leaves, so does that monetization opportunity. “Dealing with latency is incredibly […]

Independent mobile supply-side platforms (SSPs) are going extinct, the result of commoditization and natural evolution. “It’s been really hard to be a single-point solution player in the ad tech space for a long time, but now it’s almost impossible,” said Christopher Hansen, chief product officer at IgnitionOne. “Just take a look at the Terry Kawaja […]

Berlin-based mobile ad platform Fyber (formerly SponsorPay) wants to become what it calls a full-stack “specialized supply-side platform.” “Specialized” refers to its focus on the world of freemium apps, said Janis Zech, CRO and co-founder of Fyber, which announced its acquisition of German ad tech company Falk Realtime on Wednesday for €10.75 million, which translates to […]

Supply-side platforms (SSPs) such as OpenX, Rubicon Project and PubMatic are under heavy pressure to increase value for publishers who pay a premium to use their technologies. “The fact that SSPs are positioned on the sell side after much of the transaction value has been extracted by other intermediaries puts more pressure on their margins […]

“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Ed Carey, VP of sales at The Rubicon Project. As advertising technology moves from agencies’ back offices to the front — and from auctions to deals — digital publishers are […]

For the past year, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has emphasized the company’s position as a programmatic player, discussing the importance of its “tech stack” and building up its year-old demand-side platform AdLearn. The company hopes to complete the circle around its automated ad services with the launch of its long-promised supply side platform, dubbed simply […]