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Simplify Your Programmatic Campaigns with Quality Sync in Display & Video 360

IAS Team — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Ensure a seamless end-to-end campaign optimization workflow with Quality Sync in Display & Video 360

IAS is pleased to share that we have integrated our Quality Sync pre-bid segment with Display & Video 360. Our unified pre-bid segment is designed to streamline your advertising efforts and drive superior results.

In addition to our off-the-shelf pre-bid segments, you can now also automatically deploy your post-bid settings in pre-bid with IAS Quality Sync, all in Display & Video 360.

With IAS Quality Sync in Display & Video 360, you can:

Simplify Your Workflow: With Quality Sync in Display & Video 360, you can easily manage all your settings for brand safety and suitability and invalid traffic in one place, reducing the potential for errors that can impact campaign performance.
Reduce Block Rates: Quality Sync helps ensure that your campaigns maintain high quality by automating the alignment of pre- and post-bid settings to significantly lower block rates and enhance the quality of impressions.
Maximize Efficiency: Our single segment ID approach simplifies activation across multiple campaigns and buying platforms, and enables consistency. This not only saves time but also improves overall campaign performance, leading to more effective media spend.

Quality Sync bundles brand safety and suitability, invalid traffic, MFA protection, URL blocklists, keyword blocklist settings, and more to provide comprehensive coverage across your programmatic media investments.

Contact an IAS representative today to learn more about Quality Sync and more available IAS products in Display & Video 360.

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What is Programmatic Advertising? A Comprehensive Guide

IAS Team — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 01:00:00 +0000

The number of online consumers is rapidly growing, and so is the need for ads that capture attention and make an impact. It’s crucial that marketers can depend on a transparent and trustworthy ad publishing process to reach consumers online and drive results without wasting time or money.

That’s where programmatic advertising comes in.

What is programmatic advertising?

Programmatic advertising is the automated buying and selling of ad space in real-time. This process lets marketers target specific audiences and optimize their campaigns for better, scalable results.

One of the main benefits of programmatic advertising is that it eliminates the need for manual buying and selling, helping to increase time efficiency and avoid human error. Through technology-driven processes, like algorithms and AI, programmatic advertising helps streamline both the purchasing and placement of ads across the digital landscape. Plus, programmatic advertising is flexible, allowing media buyers to shift budgets faster than ever before.

How does programmatic advertising work?

At its core, programmatic advertising is designed to make the buying and selling of digital ad space more efficient and data-driven. Unlike traditional media buying, where transactions were often manual and time-consuming, programmatic uses automation, machine learning, and real-time bidding (RTB) to ensure that every ad impression is strategically placed for maximum impact.

The programmatic supply path consists of multiple intermediaries that connect advertisers (buyers) with publishers (sellers) to facilitate the automated exchange of ad inventory. This process happens in milliseconds, allowing brands to target their ideal audience with precision and efficiency across digital environments, including the open web, social media, mobile apps, connected TV (CTV), and more.

Read More: Programmatic Advertising Glossary

The key players in the programmatic supply path

To understand how programmatic advertising functions, it’s essential to break down the different players involved in the process.

1. Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs): Where advertisers manage their buys

A demand-side platform (DSP) is a technology that automates the process of purchasing digital ad inventory. Marketers use DSPs to set their budget, targeting preferences, bid strategy, and performance goals, ensuring that their ads are served to the most relevant audiences in real time.

How DSPs Work: Advertisers upload their creatives (banners, videos, native ads, etc.) into a DSP and define the criteria for their campaigns—such as demographics, device type, geography, contextual relevance, and behavioral data. The DSP then bids on available ad impressions within programmatic marketplaces, ensuring that each bid is strategic and cost-effective.
Why DSPs Matter: By leveraging AI-driven optimizations, audience insights, and real-time analytics, DSPs help advertisers maximize performance, efficiency, and return on investment (ROI). Instead of purchasing bulk ad space in advance, DSPs allow advertisers to adjust and refine their campaigns dynamically, ensuring that their budget is being spent where it matters most.

2. Sell-Side Platforms (SSPs): Where publishers monetize their inventory

A sell-side platform (SSP) is the counterpart to the DSP, used by publishers to manage and sell their available ad inventory programmatically. SSPs connect with multiple DSPs and ad exchanges, enabling publishers to maximize the value of their inventory by selling ad impressions to the highest bidder.

How SSPs Work: When a user visits a publisher’s website or app, the SSP analyzes the user’s data and context to determine which ads would be the most relevant and valuable. It then initiates an auction, where DSPs compete in real-time to serve an ad that matches the user profile and publisher’s criteria.
Why SSPs Matter: SSPs increase competition for ad inventory, ensuring that publishers achieve higher revenue for their impressions while maintaining control over which ads appear on their platform.

The programmatic auction process

A user visits a website, app, or CTV platform that supports programmatic advertising.
The SSP sends an ad request to an ad exchange, signaling available ad inventory.
The ad exchange initiates a real-time auction, inviting multiple DSPs to bid on the impression.
Each DSP evaluates the user’s data (such as demographics, browsing behavior, and contextual signals) and determines whether to place a bid based on the advertiser’s targeting preferences.
The highest bid wins the auction, and the ad creative from the winning advertiser is served to the user—all in a fraction of a second.
The advertiser’s DSP tracks engagement metrics (such as clicks, conversions, and viewability) to optimize future bids and campaign performance.

How does programmatic advertising help marketers?

Programmatic advertising removes the inefficiencies of manual media buying, replacing them with automated, data-driven decision-making. Instead of purchasing inventory in bulk or negotiating placements one by one, advertisers can use real-time bidding and direct programmatic deals to ensure that every impression serves a purpose.

With advanced targeting, supply path insights, and brand suitability controls, programmatic advertising helps advertisers reach high-value audiences while eliminating waste and reducing ad fraud. When executed with the right strategy, programmatic is not just efficient—it’s an essential tool for scaling campaigns, improving media quality, and driving superior performance.

Key Benefits of Programmatic Advertising for Marketers

1. Precise Targeting for Meaningful Engagement

Reaching the right audience at the right time is critical. Programmatic advertising enables granular targeting capabilities, allowing marketers to serve relevant, high-impact ads based on contextual signals, audience insights, and real-time behavioral data.

By aligning ad placements with brand-suitable content, marketers can increase engagement while ensuring their messages appear in environments that support brand integrity. The ability to optimize audience segments dynamically allows advertisers to refine their strategy throughout the campaign lifecycle, making each impression more valuable.

2. Real-time optimization to maximize ROI

The speed of digital advertising requires marketers to be agile and data-driven. Programmatic advertising provides real-time campaign adjustments, ensuring that budgets are continuously optimized toward higher-performing inventory, better engagement, and stronger return on ad spend (ROAS).

Rather than relying on static ad placements, programmatic enables adaptive bidding strategies that respond to shifting market conditions. This means brands can dynamically adjust their spend, refine targeting criteria, and reallocate budgets based on what’s working—without waiting for manual intervention.

3. Smarter efficiency and cost savings

Without the right controls, programmatic ad spend can be lost to low-quality placements, excessive fees, and inefficient supply paths. To combat this, marketers need solutions that provide actionable transparency into their supply chain, ensuring that every dollar is invested in quality, fraud-free, and viewable impressions.

By leveraging supply path intelligence and media quality optimization, advertisers can make informed media-buying decisions that drive measurable business impact. The goal isn’t just to buy impressions—it’s to ensure that every impression contributes to marketing objectives.

4. Transparency and reach

Consumers engage with digital content across multiple channels and devices, from desktop and mobile to connected TV. A cohesive programmatic strategy allows brands to deliver consistent, high-quality messaging while managing media spend across various environments.

By maintaining visibility and control over their programmatic buys, marketers can ensure that their ads appear in premium, brand-aligned inventory, regardless of the environment. With contextual targeting and pre-bid optimizations, programmatic campaigns can seamlessly scale without sacrificing quality or relevance.

5. Brand safety, suitability, and fraud protection

Brand reputation is non-negotiable. Without the right safeguards, programmatic advertising can expose brands to unsuitable content, fraud, and wasted spend. Marketers need assurance that their ads are appearing in brand-safe, fraud-free environments, reaching real people in the right geographic locations.

A strategic approach to programmatic advertising ensures that every ad buy is evaluated against media quality standards, reducing the risks of invalid traffic (IVT), and misaligned placements. By integrating real-time verification and suitability controls, marketers can confidently invest in programmatic campaigns that drive results without compromising brand integrity.

6. Data-driven insights for continuous improvement

To make smarter marketing decisions, advertisers need access to detailed, real-time insights. Programmatic advertising provides transparent reporting, allowing brands to measure viewability, engagement, cost efficiency, and supply path performance at every stage of the campaign.

With a data-first approach, marketers can continuously refine their creative strategy, audience segmentation, and bidding tactics to improve efficiency and effectiveness. The ability to analyze campaign performance in real-time ensures that advertisers can pivot quickly, optimizing their strategy to meet evolving goals.

Read More: Mastering Ad Verification: Viewability, Ad Fraud, and Brand Safety Measurement for Effective Campaigns

How can IAS help?

The programmatic supply path can be a bit complex, so marketers need the most efficient buys and the fastest campaign optimization. IAS helps verify that your buys are made of Quality Impressions, which measures whether your ads are in-view, seen by a real person, in a brand safe and suitable environment, and in the correct geo. IAS also works to ensure the integrity of your brand and optimize your campaign effectiveness throughout every step of the supply path.

Here’s a quick look at what IAS can offer with our industry-leading programmatic product suite:

Optimization Pre-Bid Segments: Achieve optimal media quality results, hit KPIs, and ensure your ads are seen by real people in safe environments with real-time data.
Performance-Based Targeting: Apply Context Control optimization that lets you target contextually relevant content that aligns with your strategic objectives and amplifies your brand message.
Total Visibility: Activate more efficient campaigns, protect your spend, and deliver better ROI with the industry’s first Supply Path Optimization (SPO) product, Total Visibility, which combines DSP log level data, financial, and supply path information with IAS media quality data to provide marketers with insight into the supply path, performance, quality, and cost of programmatic ads.
Automated Tag: Spend less time tagging and more time optimizing with our first-to-market tag management solution that gives you greater operational efficiencies with increased control of the campaign set-up process.

Drive results on your programmatic campaigns with actionable transparency and precise targeting that only IAS can provide. Check out our programmatic product suite to get started today.

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Seamlessly Sync Programmatic Campaigns in Amazon DSP

IAS Team — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Access Quality Sync for end-to-end programmatic campaign optimization

Seamlessly sync your IAS settings on programmatic campaigns in Amazon DSP with one turnkey solution: Quality Sync. IAS is pleased to share that our Quality Sync pre-bid segment is now available in Amazon DSP so you can simplify your workflow and streamline programmatic advertising efforts, all in one place.

Quality Sync bundles IAS’s brand safety, invalid traffic, brand suitability, MFA protection, URL blocklists, keyword blocklist settings, and more to provide comprehensive coverage across your programmatic media investments in Amazon DSP.

With Quality Sync in Amazon DSP, you can:

Simplify Your Workflow: Automatically match your IAS blocking settings across all channels for programmatic buys for a streamlined, simplified programmatic campaign workflow.
Minimize Human Error: Manage all of your IAS brand safety, brand suitability, and invalid traffic settings all in one place to ensure end-to-end accuracy.
Reinvest in Your Brand: By automating the alignment of IAS’s pre- and post-bid settings, you can significantly lower block rates and enhance quality impressions, allowing you to allocate savings back into your brand.

Contact an IAS representative today to activate Quality Sync in Amazon DSP and learn more about available IAS products in Amazon DSP.

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A Privacy-First Approach to Driving Results

IAS Team — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Ensuring data privacy while gaining actionable insights is more crucial than ever. As marketers strive to capture consumer interest and measure the effectiveness of their campaigns, innovative solutions are needed to navigate the challenges of data privacy and measurement accuracy. Enter the collaboration between IAS and Upwave, powered by AWS Clean Rooms.

To explore how this groundbreaking integration is transforming ad measurement, IAS and Upwave have conducted an in-depth study using AWS Clean Rooms. This secure environment allows the seamless collaboration of data without compromising privacy, enabling a comprehensive analysis of ad performance.

Download A Privacy-First Approach to Driving Results to find out:

The impact of IAS Quality Attention on KPIs, including brand awareness and purchase intent
The technical benefits of tagless measurement and pixel-less integration
Real-world case study results showcasing the power of data clean room collaboration

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Transition with Ease to IAS: A Message for Oracle Customers, Partners, and Employees

IAS Team — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:04:30 +0000

Oracle’s recent announcement to shut down its advertising business comes at a time of rapid transformation for the industry. We understand that this is an unsettling time for Oracle Advertising’s customers, partners, and employees. Our teams are committed to providing support and enabling a smooth transition during this period of change.

For Oracle Advertising customers and partners, IAS is here to facilitate your smooth transition to our Measurement and Optimization solutions. Our teams are ready to help you maximize ROI while serving as a reliable and innovative partner throughout this moment. We offer a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to deliver superior results and accelerate your progress.

Discover more about our offerings below:

Maximize ROI with Measurement and Optimization solutions for Brands & Agencies
Drive Yield with Media Quality solutions for Publishers
Forge the Future of digital media as our Partner

Additionally, we have a wide range of roles available at IAS and are eager to support Oracle Advertising employees affected by this change. If you find a role that aligns with your expertise, we encourage you to apply directly. Please highlight your skills and that you were impacted by this change.

Our mission at IAS is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality. We are here to support you and ensure a smooth transition to IAS during this turbulent time.

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WHITE PAPER: Quest for Quality

IAS Team — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:59:00 +0000

How marketers can drive superior results on the programmatic supply path

Programmatic is dominating the ad buying space. With benefits like targeting, scaling, and operational efficiencies, it’s no wonder why programmatic appeals to the marketing masses. But despite its features, programmatic ad buying is complicated. It poses significant challenges for marketers, like opaque, complex, and cost inefficient supply paths. And unfortunately, traditional supply path optimization (SPO) products leave marketers with wasted ad spend and a lack of transparency into the quality of impressions being served.

Without transparency into the cost and quality of programmatic ads, marketers are at risk of wasting valuable ad spend on low quality media that doesn’t drive results.

IAS’s latest white paper, Quest for Quality, deep dives into efficient Supply Path Optimization to help marketers overcome programmatic buying challenges so they can truly understand the tools they need to drive ROI and performance on the programmatic supply path.

In this white paper, you’ll learn:

Why making supply path decisions on cost alone is hurting brands
How to identify inefficiencies along the supply path while taking impression quality and transparency into account
How IAS’s Total Visibility is helping marketers across the globe improve campaign performance and ROI

Don’t compromise the quality of your impressions. Only IAS shows marketers the true financial impact of media quality on the supply path. Download the white paper, Quest for Quality, now to access these insights and more.

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IAS Announces Updates to Integration with Google for Automated Campaign Management in Campaign Management 360

IAS Team — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Leverage campaign automation in Campaign Manager 360 with IAS

Let’s face it — campaign management is tedious. With the risk of human error and programmatic glitches, it’s critical for marketers to find a time-saving solution that allows for flexibility throughout each campaign.

With this in mind, how can marketers drive efficiencies without sacrificing control?

IAS is introducing a true end-to-end campaign activation process within Google’s campaign management system, Campaign Manager 360, available globally. Starting today, marketers can automatically create and launch campaigns and wrap tags within Campaign Manager 360, while incorporating IAS’s media quality measurement solutions. With this new integration, marketers are able to reduce workflow inconsistencies by accessing Campaign Manager 360 data in IAS Signal directly.

Paired with IAS’s existing Automated Tag product, launched in 2020, marketers can enjoy having greater operational efficiencies with increased control of the end-to-end campaign process. Our automated campaign creation and tag wrapping products will ensure that you maximize ROI, giving your team the time back to focus on driving superior results.

Launch and optimize campaigns faster than ever before using IAS’s new campaign automation feature for Google’s Campaign Manager 360. Download the one sheet to get started.

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Constructing Your Quality Path: How media quality strengthens supply path optimization strategies

IAS TEAM — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:01:00 +0000

Rebuild your supply path strategy with quality

Programmatic advertising is rapidly growing in adoption among marketers, but the purchasing experience is getting more complicated. Industry experts recognize that it’s critical to implement supply path optimization (SPO) into their programmatic strategy to ease the complexity — but recent IAS research found that media quality threats and lack of transparency are still a problem in programmatic buying.

So how can marketers optimize their supply path strategies for both cost efficiency and higher media quality?

In our latest research, we highlight the impact of Quality Path Optimization (QPO) — an advanced media strategy that identifies the most effective supply paths with both quality inventory and cost efficiency at the forefront. Here’s a snapshot of what we discovered:

91% of media experts believe qCPM is important for evaluating supply path performance
89% of media experts endorsed multiple benefits of using QPO over SPO
+12pp: In an experiment, adding quality metrics lifted media experts’ confidence in path optimization decisions by 12 percentage points

Download our latest research, Constructing your Quality Path, to see how quality can revolutionize your path optimization strategy.

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IAS drives business outcomes for Samsung

IAS TEAM — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:11:07 +0000

The challenge: Global media agency Mindshare wanted to know if adding pre-bid to advertiser Samsung’s post-bid strategy would improve their media quality metrics and KPIs. As a fully performance-focused advertiser, Samsung’s digital ad campaigns must drive business outcomes, cost savings, and efficiency.

The solution: Mindshare partnered with IAS to identify cost savings and efficiency opportunities for Samsung. After running IAS’s brand safety and ad fraud pre-bid segments, Mindshare and Samsung saw improvements in Samsung’s traffic quality and an overall increase in Quality Impressions. Pre-bid segments helped reduce invalid traffic, resulting in delivering more impressions to real humans and targeting safer content.

The results:

50% improvement in traffic quality
34% improvement in invalid traffic rate
23% increase in Quality Impressions

Stay performance-focused with better media quality. Download the case study to find out how.

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IAS & Mediaocean automate end-to-end campaign creation

IAS TEAM — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 22:01:00 +0000

Reach greater efficiency with a one-stop campaign management tool

Experience end-to-end campaign efficiency. As part of this partnership, IAS and Mediaocean now provide advertisers with a simplified campaign creation and reconciliation process through IAS Signal and Mediaocean Prisma buyer workflow.

Through this enhanced integration, advertisers can now access:

Automated campaign creation and tagging to launch campaigns faster
Seamless linking between IAS and Mediaocean accounts
Streamlined invoice reconciliation processes

Gain greater insight into digital campaign optimization and access delivery data for efficient reconciliation. Download the one sheet to get started.

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