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Archive for the Demand-Side Platforms Category

DSPs, such as VivaKi (Publicis) and Cadreon (IPG), were a hot topic last week at the Interactive Advertising Bureau annual confab in Carlsbad, Calif., with publisher sentiments ranging from wariness to downright paranoia. And conversations with publishers revealed a sentiment that premium sites should opt out of selling this way. Said Brian Quinn, vp/gm, ad sales for the Wall Street Journal Digital Network: “If people want to buy from us, we want them to call us.”

Buyers can reach close to 100 percent of Internet users through a single buy because there are now over 10 « mega suppliers » of real-time bidding, and most of them have massive reach. Buyers can execute against their message frequency goals, even with tight audience constraints, because there are in excess of a trillion real-time bidding impressions available per month currently!

Tom Hespos challenges the industry in his iMedia piece on whether it should « it should support buyer-side audience development platforms » and asks, « Is it morally correct for agencies to be opaque with publishers and/or clients as to how they’re leveraging data? » Hespos is definitely on the traditional side of agency as pure « agents » of their clients.

Top tier Web publishers–already wary of ad networks and exchanges–are growing increasingly squeamish about the potential impact of demand-side buying platforms created by the top agency holding companies.

LucidMedia, an optimized display ad network and scalable targeting platform, announced today that its pioneering demand-side platform (DSP) with integrated real-time bidding (RTB) is available to interactive advertising agencies. LucidMedia ADvisor DSP™ is designed for interactive agencies that need to control their campaigns, extend their reach into the online community, and streamline the complex process of acquiring inventory.

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