The Evolution of Programmatic Buying and Selling

The Evolution of Programmatic Buying and Selling

Although programmatic selling was developed in response to a need for scale and price efficiency in an open marketplace. Over the next several years, private marketplaces became more common, where only those who received an invitation could complete transactions...
Google Creates a Bold Alternative to Header Bidding

Google Creates a Bold Alternative to Header Bidding

In April of 2016, Google turned the ad tech world on its head when it announced that it was in the process of testing a pilot program that would give all bidders equal footing in the competition for ad inventory on websites. Industry media erupted, proclaiming that...
Rise of the Header Bidding Wrapper

Rise of the Header Bidding Wrapper

In the early 2000’s, Supply Side Platforms (SSPs) came to the foreground. These SSPs helped publishers aggregate their ad network demand into one platform. In 2017, the rise of header bidding has left publishers with a highly advanced, yet familiar problem: how to...
What is Header Bidding?

What is Header Bidding?

Header bidding is a programmatic technique leveraged by publishers that offers inventory to multiple ad exchanges at the same time before making calls to their ad server. The technology unites all publishers’ header bidding demand sources into one unified auction....