Ben Davis says, “There’s no doubt there are still issues with programmatic advertising; fraud, poor creative, and a lack of transparency from media agencies cause much debate.

Despite this, real-time bidding (the automated auction of ad impressions) has many obvious advantages for publishers.

So, I thought I’d help programmatic newbies with a list of the benefits of RTB.

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1. Pricing precision

Though successful bidders pay for ad impressions at the second-highest bid price (to provide advertiser value), publishers broadly extract greater value by using a supply-side platform (SSP) to enable RTB”.

Six advantages of real-time bidding for publishers

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