Establishing a Progammatic Media Buying Solution – Perils, Pitfalls and Partnerships

Noelia Amoedo, CEO of Mediasmart 

Many advertisers are now looking to internalise their media buying processes, and numerous companies are being set up to offer advertisers a media buying service in the programmatic space. There are two possible routes here, as in any decision that involves using technology: buy or build your DSP. But firstly, let’s define what a DSP actually is.

Ad Formats and Mobile Programmatic Evolve and Collide

Noelia Amoedo, CEO of mediasmart

Introduction

The rapid evolution of programmatic ad tech has created platforms that can now use first and third party data and artificial intelligence to deliver very sophisticated predictive targeting – enhancing the media buying process to allow marketers to quickly target very specific audiences.

Why Programmatic is not Killing Creativity

Nick Hugh, Yahoo VP & GM, Advertising EMEA

Since the advent of programmatic buying, there has been much debate about whether digital advertising is moving towards an era of man versus machine.

According to the IAB, 47 per cent of display ads were traded in programmatically in 2014, nearly doubling from 28 per cent the previous year. Given such huge growth, a key question on marketers’ lips is whether science and automation does indeed pose a threat to creativity?

Creativity in the digital age is about more than just the format alone, it’s about both design and distribution and that’s key where data is key. Yahoo processes around 150 billion user data events every day globally – that’s an incredible amount of knowledge that we have about consumers but it’s how we process data that really counts.