Pluto TV Hopes to Benefit from Header Bidding

LOS ANGELES –  In the pandemic economy, many brands are dialling down their ad spend, not least on awareness-raising TV ads. Traditional linear TV ads typically target mass demographic groups and offer little in the way of measurement to truly discern return on investment. By contrast, the new wave of advertising-supported over-the-top (OTT) TV services […]

How Header Bidding Helps Both Buyers & Sellers: Roku’s Ben-Youssef

So far in its evolution, header bidding – a software process revolutionizing digital ad sales – has been seen as a a seller tactic. But could the technology also be a boon for buyers? In this video interview with Beet.TV, the director of ad platforms at one of the two leading over-the-top TV device conduits […]

Header Bidding Is Coming To TV: PubMatic’s Chowla

It is the digital ad-selling software process that has done so much to bolster the revenue earned by publishers. Now “header bidding” is making in-roads to connected TV. In recent years, display advertising has been revolutionized by the technique, which sees ad auction systems able to entertain bids from multiple demand sources simultaneously, thereby increasing […]

Header Bidding Can Redefine OTT Ad Sales: PubMatic’s Berlingo

TV networks and MVPDs want to sell ads in a new way for a new era- but they are going to need some new tools to help get them there. For example, many now want to sell more than just 30-second spots in sequence, preferring to to sell the whole of a commercial break in […]

Header Bidding Is Unlocking OTT TV Ads: Kinesso’s Fitzpatrick

LOS ANGELES — It took its time to leap from display to video and TV, but now the ad-trading technique known as header bidding convince more connected TV programmers to make ad inventory available to buy programmatically. That is according to one agency exec whose company is rolling up its sleeves. Header bidding is the […]

Fast-Growing Kidoodle.TV Family AVOD Service Joins PubMatic on Header Bidding

EDMONTON, ALBERTA – Your average seven-year-old may not know too much about the intricacies of header bidding through programmatic OTT ad exchanges – but Daniel Riddell doesn’t need them to. The CTO of kids online TV service Kidoodle.TV is witnessing amazing growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. And he is installing a stack of ad-tech to […]

Criteo’s Grabowski Sees Head Of Steam Behind Header Bidding

Header bidding, the technology tactic through which publishers can entertain multiple bids for ad inventory simultaneously in order to maximize the chance of higher bid prices, has grown in momentum over the last couple of years. But Criteo didn’t anticipate this kind of demand. When the ad-tech company launched Criteo Direct Bidder, one of its header […]

How Header Bidding Has Gone Hybrid: Intermarkets’ Requidan

For such a young concept, header bidding, the technology which now allows publishers to entertain bids from multiple demand sources simultaneously to achieve higher yield, seems to already have enjoyed a long and fulsome life. From beginning as a technology which required execution on the client side, now there are also many server-to-server header executions. […]

Header Bidding Will Go Hybrid & In-App In 2018: PubMatic’s Khatri

The technology which allows publishers to entertain ad bids from multiple demand sources simultaneously has made in-roads to facilitating a healthy chunk of display ad sales in the last couple of years. So what is next on the radar for header bidding? The tech begun by deploying on the client side and for display ads […]

Header Bidding Is At A ‘Tipping Point’: PubMatic’s Pichardo

It has only been around for about two years – but, already, header bidding, the technology which allows publishers to entertain bids from multiple ad buying sources simultaneously to achieve higher yield, is changing fast. Quickly cornering segments of the display market, now header bidding is ready to thread its way in to richer ad […]

Header Bidding Changes Everything: Rubicon’s Kershaw

Tom Kershaw is deadly serious about header bidding. Last year, his company felt the pain of the new technology, which allows publishers to entertain multiple simultaneous ad bids for higher yield. Rubicon conceded it had been slow to roll out – an admission that sent its stock tumbling, forcing it to make wide-ranging lay-offs and prompting it […]

For Video, Header Bidding Needs A Hybrid Approach: Cedato’s Doron

Header bidding, the ad-tech practice through which publishers are now able to entertain multiple ad bids simultaneously rather than in a waterfall sequence, has apparently worked wonders for display ad sales. But, for video, the situation looks altogether more challenging. For one, the VAST and VPAID tags on which client-side video depend impose time-out limits […]

Header Bidding Coming to Video, But in Time. AppNexus’ Van Kirk explains

In the last couple of years, header bidding, the ad-tech practice through which publishers are now able to entertain multiple ad bids simultaneously rather than in a waterfall sequence, has tantalised buyers and seller alike. But, whilst the technology is now getting more widely deployed on display ads, arrival in video ads will take some time. […]

The Double-Edged Sword Of Header Bidding, explains The Trade Desk’s Stempeck

In the last year and a half, yet another new tech terminology has popped up in digital advertising, as platforms try to fix and enhance some of the wonkier off-shoots that programmatic has wrought. In “header bidding”, rather than publishers entertain bids from multiple bidding sources in a “waterfall” sequence, they can see them all […]

FreeWheel’s Brunet Discusses The Programmatic Guaranteed Future, Unified Header Bidding

Premium video provider FreeWheel believes that guaranteed, programmatic transactions on a one-to-one basis between publishers and buyers represent the future of both video and linear television. The programmatic guaranteed world is the “next generation of programmatic transactions for premium publishers because this guarantees a safe transaction for both the seller and the buyer and it […]

Publishers Should Test Server-Side Header Bidding: Weather’s Hlavacek

HOLLYWOOD — Publishers have eagerly embraced a technology which allows them to call on multiple ad buyer demand sources simultaneously to achieve higher bids – now they must carefully scrutinize the next iteration of the tech. That is according to a man who is surely the only executive out there with the title “VP of global automated monetization”. “Almost […]

Header Bidding Moves To Server In AppNexus, Index Exchange Partnership

HOLLYWOOD BEACH, FL  — An expanded partnership between programmatic ad-tech firm AppNexus and exchange Index Exchange is one of the moves already changing the nature of ad trading’s so-called “header bidding” technique. The pair announced they have worked to produce tight technical integrations for server-to-server header bidding. “Header bidding” is a technique that has only recently grown up, in which […]

‘Header Bidding 2.0’ Will Help RTB Kill IO: Rubicon’s Mulcahy

Just when you wrapped your head around “programmatic”, a new variant of the data-driven advertising technology is creeping on to the scene. In so-called “header bidding“, publishers offer inventory to multiple ad exchanges before alerting their ad servers, intending to garner multiple bids on the same inventory and so make higher prices. And, no sooner […]

Header Bidding ‘Correcting’ Programmatic Marketplace: Washington Post’s Tollestrup

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Washington Post has gone to great lengths to create a unified auction for its ad inventory that is sold programmatically as it tries to make it easier for buyers to understand and manage private marketplace deals. “If you don’t have a direct relationship with the buyer, you’re just line on the spreadsheet,” said […]

Header Bidding Surfaces Value Of ‘Every Single Impression’: OpenX’s Van Ullen

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Quality and scale of audience are key to most political advertising campaigns, according to the VP of Business Development at OpenX. “The quality component is really key for buyers because we’re no longer in a world where we’re just trying to buy the audience across any type of content. Ad effectiveness on quality content […]