Programmatic Glossary & Definitions

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  • Behavioral targeting is an advertising method that uses knowledge about users' behavior across the web to improve the success of their campaigns. This sort of programmatic ad targeting focuses on the individual customer to target their specific lifestyle.
  • Bid Rate is a Programmatic Auction metric that shows how many Bids are occurring in the Auction. The frequency cap and one's bid price are commonly used to determine this. The advertiser will only pay for gained impressions.
  • A bid request is a digital signal from publishers to the ad exchange, highlighting available ad space. In response to this bid request, advertisers submit their bids, competing for the specified space in real-time programmatic auctions.
  • A Bid Response, it is a bid reply from the demand-side platform (DSP) in an OpenRTB system to the supply-side platform (SSP). It might potentially come from the SSP to the ad publisher. It is essentially a communication to the seller displaying the buyer's value and other crucial bid criteria.
  • Blacklists are simply listings of website domain names that under no circumstances does the advertiser allow their ads to serve on that site. Many advertisers will use some sort of Blacklist as part of their overall buying.
  • Brand Lift uses various methodology to gather feedback directly from consumers in real-world settings as a response to an advertising campaign. It will generally present a picture of customer sentiment and brand affinity among those who have been exposed to your media.