SSP

The marketing ecosystem is filled with intricate moving parts, and one of the more confusing ones is the DSP, leaving many marketers asking themselves, just what is a DSP anyway? Well, as a Demand Side Platform, or DSP, we here at RTB House are well-placed to answer that question for you. This article will answer that question, explain how a Demand Side Platform works, and what its role in the often complicated digital marketing landscape actually is.

• Contextual SDA passed both quality tests we performed and described in this article
• The mechanisms we used to assess the contextual SDA signals’ quality were: SSPs’ audiences sent via Deal IDs and RTB House’s proprietary ContextAI engine

Have you heard of Seller-Defined Audiences (SDA) yet? SDA was released at the beginning of 2022 by Project Rearc – an initiative that came to life as the IAB Tech Lab’s answer to the impending demise of 3rd-party cookies. Although a year hasn’t passed since its release, SDA has received significant attention in the press and industry conferences and is considered one of the go-to solutions for targeting when the 3rd-party cookie pond dries up.

The digital world is a complex ecosystem designed to simplify access to information and help people connect easier with fewer limitations. While not paying for it directly, we need to remember that apart from being a content platform, the Internet is also an enormous marketplace, where we – as users – are clients.

The process of advertising inventory purchasing has significantly evolved over the course of recent years. Another (r)evolution is right around the corner and it’s because of the deprecation of 3rd-party cookies.

The world of online advertising faces significant changes. Advanced technologies are not only addition that improves efficiency of marketing campaigns – they rule the market. Demand-side platforms (DSP) and supply-side platforms are two important elements of this automated market. Keep reading to learn more about them.