2018 proved to be a pivotal year for programmatic in Germany — with annual ad spend expected to total €1.44 billion. As this emerging market continues to adapt to programmatic, IX decided to bring together nearly 300 guests over the span of three days for conversation on programmatic over coffee and breakfast. In mid-November 2018, ...continue reading
It’s no news that programmatic has already drastically changed the digital advertising world. In 2018, online display has represented nearly half of spend (48%) in Australia & New Zealand. In this spirit, IX hosted a recovery breakfast the morning after the Melbourne Cup with its partners in the Sydney market. The breakfast brought thought-leaders in the ...continue reading
Welcome to This Woman’s Work, a series highlighting how different women are advancing the tech industry, both professionally and personally. Working women receive a slew of advice — lean in, lean out, be aggressive, but not too aggressive. We’re constantly inspired by the women who are paving the way and taking charge in the ever-evolving world of ...continue reading
Each year, Cyber Monday reaffirms its title as the top e-commerce event in North America, with advertisers launching special campaigns and paying top advertising dollars to attract customers. Q4 pushes the limits of our Ad Serving platform, campaign registration pipeline and data processing systems, as IX typically experiences at least a 10% increase in daily ...continue reading
Welcome to ‘State of the market’, a series highlighting the various markets of Index Exchange. This month, our Regional Managing Director of DACH & CEE, Joerg Vogelsang, dives into the value of maintaining transparency in the programmatic sphere. The term ‘black box’ has a lot of different meanings. In aeroplanes, and even some cars, black ...continue reading
“The Advertising ID Consortium, the open identity solution for the digital advertising ecosystem, today announced new platform partners that have agreed to join the Consortium in addition to the three founding members – AppNexus, Index Exchange, and LiveRamp. Since the Consortium’s announcement in May 2017, the founding members have established a governance framework and product ...continue reading
Auction dynamics implemented by supply-side platforms often confuse ad buyers. In order to provide more transparency, exchanges like OpenX, Index Exchange and Rubicon Project all started experimenting with first-price auctions, where the highest bidder determines how much an impression gets sold for.
The new programmatic offering is available via a partnership with global ad marketplace Index Exchange.
“The biggest single issue is trust, trust across the supply chain,” said Andrew Casale, president and CEO of Index Exchange. “People want to understand what’s happening with each transaction—Where are the taxes? Where does the dollar go?—and they want to know that they can trust programmatic.”
This is why publishers have been partnering with their former rivals to achieve greater scale and impact from user data and insights. One such collaboration is a consortium (Index Exchange is a launch partner) that will help buyers and publishers leverage a common identifier that, with broad adoption, would drive more value than industry silos with proprietary ...continue reading
Drew Bradstock, SVP of product at Index Exchange, said that before header bidding allowed SSPs to simultaneously bid on the same inventory, SSPs were more likely to have unique inventory, and they could make money by simply selling the inventory they had access to and taking a cut. But with header bidding, several SSPs are ...continue reading