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February 27, 2023\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0\u00a03 min read<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 By Seb Joseph<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The way programmatic advertising is done is changing from an open marketplace,<\/a> where everyone transacts with one another, to something more controlled. Publisher LADbible Group believes that moment can\u2019t come soon enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably not the first publisher many observers would tip to make such a claim. After all, most of the money it makes from programmatic advertising comes from the open marketplace.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes that money comes after the publisher\u2019s impressions have been sold via the unified auction that is Google\u2019s Open Bidding, other times it\u2019s done through ad tech vendors like OpenX and Sharethrough directly. Then there are those moments when impressions are sold via a reseller like Improve Digital, which essentially acts like LADbible Group\u2019s agent to find buyers sourced directly from another ad tech vendor or through reselling arrangements.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur private marketplace spend is still relatively small compared to the open market, despite the industry seeing the opposite,\u201d said Roy Beeharry, head of programmatic at LADbible Group.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all there in the publisher\u2019s ads.txt file, which contains information about its programmatic partners. As it stands, there are 23 partners helping it sell impressions.<\/p>\n

Sure, this all serves a purpose: it allows a publisher like LADbible Group to sell more ads on the back of lower costs. But it\u2019s not necessarily sustainable given the state of the open marketplace. Look to the evolution of curated marketplaces,<\/a> as proof.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurated marketplace offers up a perfect synergy between publishers (sellers), advertisers (buyers) and third parties (SSPs),\u201d said Beeharry. \u201cThis is typically transacted through deals, and not via the open market. Curated deals give a buyer and advertisers access to premium curated supply, with improved brand safety, targeted audiences, contextual environments and focused device types.\u201d<\/p>\n

If moves like this pan out, it could potentially mean more upside<\/a> for publishers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole supply chain benefits from this new wave of innovation, with sellers and buyers finding greater control of what supply paths they are comfortable working towards,\u201d\u00a0said Beeharry. \u201cAs Marlo from The Wire said so eloquently without any remorse, \u2018the price of the brick is going up\u2019, but in all fairness that\u2019s great news for the entire programmatic ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n

At least that\u2019s the theory. The reality might not bear this out. Not least because a lot of this shift toward curated marketplaces is being driven by media agencies<\/a>. Whenever this happens in ad tech it tends to mean they have to fall into line behind the agencies otherwise no ad dollars. This industry is nothing but cyclical.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve always been of the view that much of this technology, if we embrace it properly, will help us grow, not dis-intermediate us,\u201d said WPP CEO Mark Read on the company\u2019s earnings call last week. On the ad tech point, it looks like the estimates I\u2019ve seen indicate that the so-called ad tech tax is decreasing, which is what you\u2019d expect as the market gets bigger and more efficient.<\/p>\n

Still, the latest cycle will be slow to come full circle. After all, most advertisers continue to do the bulk of their programmatic advertising this way, by bidding against any number of other advertisers in auctions for online ad inventory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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