Introduction to Programmatic Advertising (Second Edition) offers a clear and concise introduction to programmatic advertising, from basic concepts to current trends. You will learn: How the open advertising ecosystem works. What are DSPs, SSPs, CDPs, OpenRTB protocol, preferred deals or supply-path optimization? Why data is the lifeblood of programmatic. How is data collected and used by publishers and advertisers to deliver maximum advertising efficiency? What has changed over the recent years. From a switch to first-price auction, to the emergence of consent-management platforms or universal auction adoption by publishers. Why is the demise of third-party cookies such a big deal. How will the programmatic advertising ecosystem respond to unprecedented identity and privacy changes? Where to focus now and in the future. Why are the biggest industry players betting on emerging channels like connected TV or retail media? Just like the well-received first edition, this book was written primarily with people who are new to the world of programmatic advertising in mind. This includes people just entering the industry, students, academics, or anyone who would like to better understand how programmatic works. Some of the topics covered in this book, such as identity or privacy, could be also useful to seasoned professionals.

This fundamental guide on programmatic advertising explains in detail how automated, data-driven advertising really works in practice and how the right adoption leads to a competitive advantage for advertisers, agencies and media. The new way of planning, steering and measuring marketing may still appear complex and threatening but promising at once to most decision makers. This collaborative compendium combines proven experience and best practice in 22 articles written by 45 renowned experts from all around the globe. Among them Dr. Florian Heinemann/Project-A, Peter Würtenberger/Axel-Springer, Deirdre McGlashan/MediaCom, Dr. Marc Grether/Xaxis, Michael Lamb/MediaMath, Carolin Owen/IPG, Stefan Bardega/Zenith, Arun Kumar/Cadreon, Dr. Ralf Strauss/Marketingverband, Jonathan Becher/SAP and many more great minds.

Do you want to become an expert in programmatic advertising? If so, this book will help you gain 360-degree knowledge of programmatic media buying and selling. Indeed, by the end of this book, you will have learnt almost everything about how advertisers and publishers can succeed in the programmatic advertising landscape.At the beginning of this book, you will learn how online advertising has evolved over the years, meaning what approaches were followed in the past, what challenges emerged and how those gave rise to the Ad Exchanges, Demand-Side and Supply-Side platforms. Next, I will introduce you to programmatic advertising and more specifically cover what programmatic advertising is, how much this technology has been adopted over the years, what the benefits for publishers and advertisers are as well as which marketing objectives one can achieve through programmatic advertising campaigns. Following that, you will learn which are the twenty main participants in the programmatic advertising ecosystem such as the Ad Exchange, Demand-Side Platform, Supply-Side Platform, Ad Server and Data-Management Platform. How all those participants can work together, the costs of using their services as well as which platform vendors are the most popular ones. Next, I will take you through the different ways of buying media programmatically such as real-time bidding through open and private auctions as well as programmatic direct deals such as preferred and guaranteed deals. You will learn how all those methods work through the use of illustrated examples, their benefits as well as why some methods are becoming more popular than others. Then, you will learn about the six programmatic advertising formats such as the Display, Video, Native, TV, Audio and Digital out-of-home advertising format. I will explain in great detail, how each advertising format differentiates from the rest in terms of audience targeting, ad serving and campaign performance measurement, as well as highlight the benefits they can bring to both advertisers and publishers.Once all those are covered, you will learn all the prospecting and remarketing tactics followed by advertisers, get to know how to create a successful media plan, as well as how an advertiser's media plan is executed with the help of media planners, media buyers, creative designers and ad traffickers. Next, you will learn all the essential and advanced tactics followed by publishers for managing ad inventory, increasing ad viewability, and of course, ad revenues. I will also take you through the ad operations followed by publishers, which typically consist of inventory managers, ad sellers, ad traffickers and yield managers. In the last part of this book, you will learn more about the major challenges advertisers and publishers face in the programmatic advertising landscape, as well as the new developments that will definitely shape the future of programmatic advertising. More specifically, I will start by covering challenges such as the Ad Tech Tax, the risk of price inflations in real-time bidding auctions, ad blockers, and explain how advertisers and publisher can succeed in this complex field. Lastly, you will learn how artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, and blockchain technologies can shape the future of programmatic advertising.

Programmatic advertising is the most exciting thing that happened in marketing in a long time- perhaps since the advent of mass advertising itself. This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to the world of programmatic advertising. If you are new to this revolutionary technology, it will help you get quickly up to speed. The book is intentionally relatively short and dense, so it can be read over a weekend - and then kept on your desk for reference. Here's a quick overview: Chapter one outlines the basic technologies enabling programmatic advertising - such as cookies, pixels, banner ads, or ad exchanges. Chapter two introduces the programmatic ecosystem and its various players, including publishers, advertisers, SSPs, DSPs, DMPs, agency trading desks, and the most important industry bodies. Chapter three is dedicated to programmatic ad trading, with special attention given to the real-time bidding (RTB) auction, role of the Deal ID, and publisher prioritization including header bidding. Chapter four is all about data and ad targeting. Retargeting and various prospecting tactics are covered, including contextual targeting, behavioral targeting, and look-a-like modeling. Chapter five expands the scope of this book into mobile. Mobile cookies, cross-device identification solutions, or location data are covered here. Chapter six offers an overview of the current issues discussed across the digital ad industry - including fraud, viewability, attribution, ad blocking, or privacy. Chapter seven is about new formats available programmatically, such as rich media, video, or native. It also covers new programmatic channels including TV, audio or print."

Guide to Marketing Automation and Accelerated ROI on Advertising KEY FEATURES ● Demonstrates how a DSP works, its bidding strategies, impression tracking, and configurations. ● Exemplifies how AI/ML simplifies bidding strategies. ● Illustrates how SSP, exchange, ad-server, and header-bidding (client and server-side) work in detail. DESCRIPTION This book provides you with an in-depth understanding of programmatic advertising. This knowledge can be applied to the checklist for procuring the appropriate stack, optimizing existing platforms, and/or building the system from the ground up. With comprehensive treatment of programmatic issues, this book establishes a solid foundation with ID systems, data management systems, and data thinking, among other topics. It explores the different data sources, attributes, and the real-time bidding protocol in detail (RTB steam). It makes its way even further into the larger systems of DSP and SSP. This book will help assist you in all aspects of running an ad-tech system. By the end of this book, you will gain a vast amount of knowledge about programmatic systems. You will become an independent expert that will help you to evaluate the advertising techniques for your own business. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Learn about the ID mechanics of cookies and GAID/IDFA. ● Gain an intuitive and in-depth understanding of the data's role in AI/ML. ● Learn about various data-centric strategies around buy and sell of media. ● Learn about DSP, bidder, bidding strategies, RTB, paid impression, and various syncs. ● Learn about SSP, Exchange, Ad-Server, header bidding systems, and AI-led floor price optimization. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR The book is essential for the architects, senior developers, and ad-tech operations to learn about programmatic in-housing from a design, process, strategic thinking, and operational standpoint. It also attracts business professionals who want to learn the tricks of the trade for increasing revenues and learn the art of asking the right questions. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Cookies, and Sync Mechanics 2. Data and AI Strategies 3. Working of DMP and CDP 4. Exchanges, Ad-Servers, and Header Bidding 5. Bidders and Meta DSPs 6. Data Privacy by Design 7. In-Housing - The Way Forward

This book is your ultimate guide to advertising data landscape. It covers everything from basic concepts all the way to developing a successful data strategy. You will learn where advertising data comes from and how it flows around the ecosystem. It will help you understand what data is available for targeting from third-party vendors, as well as standalone advertising platforms, such as Facebook, Google, or Amazon. Data Management Platforms (DMPs) are explored in depth, with detailed profiles of the most popular providers. All of this is set into context of key privacy regulations, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The final chapter gives you a blueprint for designing your own successful data strategy.

Understand the marketing revelation that commercialized the Internet. Ad Serving provides a commercial infrastructure to the internet, spanning all sites, and touching all users, all the time. Ad Serving gives marketers the ability to deliver and measure their ads for exceptionally low cost, revealing the true value of the ad space they pay for. Utilizing cookie and page-level analysis, marketers can build vast pools of pseudonymous data about websites, ads and the users that encounter them. This data, and the trusted publisher-independent methodology for measurement, secures investment for Publishers. The counting, tracking and the delivery of ads to enable this data takes place at massive scale. The processes and systems behind data collection are complex, and marketers are expected to learn how to use them as the industry grows; applying this knowledge to their new roles in Digital Advertising. Many undertake this challenge, unaware of the complexity that lies ahead. The learning resources are few and far between. This book satisfies an intermediate-level of tuition to Ad Serving Technology, illustrating how and why Advertisers continue to grow their ad spend in the planet's favorite new media channel. Topics covered includes: Introduction to Digital Advertising, Introduction to Ad Serving technologies, Campaign Setup in the Ad Server by Channel - Standard Display, Rich Media, Instream Video, SEO, Paid Search, Affiliate, Email and Social. This book also covers Conversions, Attribution, Retargeting, Optimization Strategies, Adserver Reporting, Adserver Analytics, Privacy technology and an Introduction to Programmatic including DSPs, SSPs, DMPs, ATD's, ITD's and RTB.