Roughly 60 percent of the top 1,000 publishers in the U.S. have uploaded ads.txt files to their sites as of last week, according to OpenX, which used comScore’s list of top publishers. Index Exchange has told ad buyers that it has seen higher adoption rates. “They say 82 percent of the top 10,000 domains that ...continue reading
The company is ramping up its ad tech, with Ads.txt-certified vendors AppNexus, Index Exchange, Teads, OpenX, Rubicon Project and Kargo. “Our core business is still native,” Brown says, citing the company’s long-time bread-and-butter sponsored content revenue. But building and targeting BuzzFeed-branded audience segments based on interests (a cash cow product with social media platforms) is too tempting ...continue reading
Automated media trading is now the norm for all desktop advertising, and if forecasts are to be believed, it will soon take over the entire industry. However, this transition has not been without controversy, with ‘transparency’ one of the catch phrases concerning the sector in recent years. In many cases, advertisers simply don’t know who ...continue reading
Another initiative has emerged, ads.txt, from IAB’s Display Trading Council members: Adform, Index Exchange, IAS, PubMatic, and Rubicon Project. However, ads.txt is not getting the wide adoption it needs. Publishers are dragging their heels to get their tech teams to implement it. Even though it’s fairly simple, requiring only the dropping of a text file ...continue reading
We sat down at our IX Roundtable for part 2 of our conversation with Tim Sims, of the Trade Desk, and Liane Nadeau, of Groupe Connect, to take a look back at the evolution of programmatic ads.
Our SVP of Product, Drew Bradstock, explains how to recognize fraudulent ad sales patterns.
Drew Bradstock, SVP of product at Index Exchange, said this policy will cut down on advertisers’ costs. “For too long, I think people saw this [fee] as a cost of business and ad tech,” he said. “It’s kind of sad that a number of SSPs saw this [need to disclose] as a big switch.”
“Index Exchange has been a leader in transparency from day one,” said Andrew Casale, CEO of Index Exchange. “We applaud Adobe Advertising Cloud for spearheading this initiative and look forward to collaborating with them in the future to help both marketers and publishers better achieve their business objectives.”
Among the digital ad tech companies that have signed contracts with Adobe to disclose all fees includes Oath, Pubmatic, The Rubicon Project, Index Exchange, Triple Lift and SpotX.
Auction dynamics implemented by supply-side platforms often confuse ad buyers. In order to provide more transparency, exchanges like OpenX, Index Exchange and Rubicon Project all started experimenting with first-price auctions, where the highest bidder determines how much an impression gets sold for.