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DSP, SSP, and Ad Exchange: What’s the Difference?

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Understanding programmatic advertising is understanding the individual technologies that combine to create it: DSP, SSP, and ad exchanges being key components. What is an Ad Exchange? An ad exchange is a marketplace of ad impressions.

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What’s The CPA On The MCU?; Kroger And Albertsons Merger Rumors

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Continue reading » The post What’s The CPA On The MCU?; Marvelous Marketing Disney and Target are a bellwether case study for how deeply interwoven major enterprise marketing partnerships. Kroger And Albertsons Merger Rumors appeared first on AdExchanger.

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B2B Programmatic Advertising: Complete Guide for 2025

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Here are the critical components of that automated process: Demand-Side Platform (DSP) A Demand-Side Platform (DSP) helps advertisers purchase digital ad inventory. In other words, its an automated buying platform that buys ad space through an ad exchange for a predetermined price.

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Understanding Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs): what they are, how they work, and why they matter

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A Demand-Side Platform (DSP) is a software solution that lets advertisers buy digital ad inventory across multiple ad exchanges, networks, and publishers all in one place. The goal of a DSP is to automate and optimize the buying process, using data to deliver more targeted ads to users at scale. Let’s break it down.

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Understanding Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs): what they are, how they work, and why they matter

illumin

A Demand-Side Platform (DSP) is a software solution that lets advertisers buy digital ad inventory across multiple ad exchanges, networks, and publishers all in one place. The goal of a DSP is to automate and optimize the buying process, using data to deliver more targeted ads to users at scale. Let’s break it down.

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Your Cost Per Action Campaigns Aren’t Protected from Ad Fraud — Here’s Why

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The downside is the inability to measure the effectiveness of each ad campaign—especially if you’re running ads on multiple channels simultaneously. A sustainable solution to this is the CPA advertising model. CPA stands for Cost Per Action, meaning advertisers get charged only when a user performs an action.

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5 DSP Tweaks to Increase Programmatic Performance From an Expert Media Buyer

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Instead of buying traffic resold by intermediaries at subpar CPA or CPC rates, agency-employed media buyers can tweak their CTR and conversion rates directly in the platform. Therefore, media buyers buy traffic from the partners they pick, not the ones offered by the providers’ ad exchange.

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