Why Georgia-Pacific is turning its programmatic scrutinty to the sell side

A packaging and pulp manufacturer is not the obvious answer when the conversation turns to programmatic advertisers. That assumption, it turns out, would be a mistake. 

Georgia-Pacific sits at the more advanced end of the spectrum, with an in-house programmatic team, lower ad tech costs and media dollars concentrated across a smaller set of buying platforms. Now, the company is turning its attention to the sell side, zeroing in on the ad tech firms that move inventory for publishers — the supply-side platforms.

Why? Because these ad tech platforms are plugged directly into the bidstream — the massive flow of data-rich requests sent to advertisers for every available ad impression — making them a critical leverage point for controlling inventory quality pricing dynamics and supply-path efficiency before bids ever reach a DSP.

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Media buyers shift spend from The Trade Desk’s OpenPath over transparency concerns

The Trade Desk’s commercial results have stabilized following its earnings miss in February. But transparency concerns among media buyers over its programmatic supply chain products are proving persistent.

In recent months the company’s OpenPath product has become a focal point for media agency skeptics, Digiday has learned. 

Several U.S. media buyers explained that, following investigations into the overall cost of the product to their clients, they had pulled or paused investment from OpenPath.

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