Tag: Ad Server

May 17, 2023 by Natalia Figas

Before your ad can reach the site where it is supposed to show, it has to travel a certain path. It starts with the advertiser’s server, going through DSP, SSP, ad exchanges to the right target. All subsequent links in this chain are an essential part of the supply (advertiser activity) and demand (publisher activity) […]

January 9, 2023 by Paulina Zawiślak, Michael Sweeney

The ad server is often regarded as the first piece of advertising technology, which emerged during the 1990s. Even though many other types of advertising technology (AdTech) have since been released, ad servers still play a key role in the programmatic advertising process.

January 18, 2023 by Michal Wlosik

Understanding the concept of header bidding is central to understanding how programmatic ad buying works. The process originally emerged as a novel solution to remedy the inefficiency, and Google’s preference, of its own ad exchange (AdX), during the waterfall ad-buying process. However, it quickly gained traction and became a widely accepted and expected industry standard. […]

August 31, 2022 by Maciej Zawadziński

Since the very beginning of online advertising over two decades ago, a number of technologies have been introduced to the AdTech ecosystem to solve the numerous problems advertisers and publishers face, and improve the entire media buying and selling process. While the invention of AdTech platforms such as demand-side platforms (DSPs), supply-side platforms (SSPs), and […]

June 7, 2022 by Maciej Zawadziński

Back when print publishers first started moving online, they soon discovered they needed a way to generate some revenue, so they looked at the main revenue model they’d been using in print—advertising—and aimed to replicate that in the online world. Display ads seemed to be the most intuitive way to monetize their content. To do […]

November 10, 2020 by Maciej Zawadziński

Cookies are a fundamental mechanism used in the advertising industry for ad personalisation and behavioural targeting, re-targeting, frequency capping and much more. Nowadays, a majority of ad technology providers that are disrupting* advertising industry are still relying on cookies to a great extent. With recent bad publicity around cookies, new European legislation (so called Cookie law) and new […]

November 10, 2020 by Maciej Zawadziński

Ad invocation codes (called also placement tags or ad codes) are a bit different from web trackers covered in an earlier post. Their main task is to load a creative (an ad) into the placement on a website or in an app. Additionally, they usually are responsible for cookie management, impression tracking, ad rotation, visibility tracking and other tasks. There are […]