Category SSP

A Smart Pipe Manifesto

September 19, 2011 · by · in CONTEXTWEB, Google, RTB, SSP · 1 Comment

Auctions conducted—impression by impression—inside of 125 milliseconds. Real time bidding (RTB) holds the promise of making our digital plumbing smart—solving major challenges around media, audience and data fragmentation. But in practice, despite all the promises, and despite all the actually capabilities, most of the time we still have a dumb pipe. But the market is […]

SSPs are Dead

SSPs Are Dead. Admeld, Pubmatic, Rubicon – All Dead

June 16, 2011 · by · in RTB, SSP · 5 Comments

SSPs are Dead. Admeld. Dead. Pubmatic. Dead. Rubicon. Dead. Niedermeyer. Dead. (anyone?) SSPs (supply side platforms) began to emerge in 2007 to help large publishers “YIELD OPTIMIZE” demand from ad networks—all 400 of them. It was a great pitch: Mr. Big Publisher, you utilize 20-70% of your inventory to make 80% of your revenue from […]