Welcome to IX State of the Market, a series highlighting the various markets of IX. This month, our Regional Managing Director of DACH & CEE, Joerg Vogelsang, dives into the value of maintaining transparency in the programmatic sphere. The term ‘black box’ has a lot of different meanings. In aeroplanes, and even some cars, black ...continue reading
Welcome to This Woman’s Work, a series highlighting how different women are advancing the tech industry, both professionally and personally. Working women receive a slew of advice — lean in, lean out, be aggressive, but not too aggressive. We’re constantly inspired by the women who are paving the way and taking charge in the ever-evolving world of ...continue reading
“The Advertising ID Consortium, the open identity solution for the digital advertising ecosystem, today announced new platform partners that have agreed to join the Consortium in addition to the three founding members – AppNexus, Index Exchange, and LiveRamp. Since the Consortium’s announcement in May 2017, the founding members have established a governance framework and product ...continue reading
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.
The new programmatic offering is available via a partnership with global ad marketplace Index Exchange.
“The biggest single issue is trust, trust across the supply chain,” said Andrew Casale, president and CEO of Index Exchange. “People want to understand what’s happening with each transaction—Where are the taxes? Where does the dollar go?—and they want to know that they can trust programmatic.”
This is why publishers have been partnering with their former rivals to achieve greater scale and impact from user data and insights. One such collaboration is a consortium (Index Exchange is a launch partner) that will help buyers and publishers leverage a common identifier that, with broad adoption, would drive more value than industry silos with proprietary ...continue reading
Drew Bradstock, SVP of product at Index Exchange, said that before header bidding allowed SSPs to simultaneously bid on the same inventory, SSPs were more likely to have unique inventory, and they could make money by simply selling the inventory they had access to and taking a cut. But with header bidding, several SSPs are ...continue reading
AppNexus and Index Exchange have the broadest adoption of their adapters and wrappers, according to the first-ever Header Bidding Index – a report from ServerBid, an Adzerk spinoff that builds wrappers for the demand side.