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2023 saw SPO become further cemented in the strategies of DSPs and SSPs for capturing market share. But the long-term trend might see SPO become the default for programmatic advertisers.

Here are the pros and cons of client-side and server-side header bidding, and some typical use cases for each.

CTV contributed $52.5 million to Magnite’s Q3 earnings, actually declining 6% from $56 million at the same time last year. CTV comprised 39% of overall revenue this quarter, compared to 41% for mobile ads and 20% for desktop ads.

While Backstage does cut out SSPs for the most part, it also resurrects some aspects of Yahoo’s own SSP tech.

Disintermediation is in the air. If The Trade Desk’s OpenPath cuts out SSPs (while claiming not to), Magnite’s ClearLine cuts out DSPs (while claiming not to).

Connected TV could learn from linear’s simplicity. As CTV becomes a dominant platform, advertisers should consider the ingredients that have enabled traditional TV to thrive for as long as it has, writes Joe Hirsch, general manager of SpringServe.

Magnite acquired connected TV ad server SpringServe in July for $31 million as part of its ongoing ambition to go big in CTV. But SpringServe continues to operate largely independently, and that’s by design, said Joe Hirsch, general manager of SpringServe.

Sell-side platform Magnite acquired connected TV ad server SpringServe Thursday for $31 million, in a deal that will improve its access to all of a publisher’s CTV inventory. SpringServe’s video clients include Vizio, Univision, Tastemade and Pluto TV. SpringServe and Magnite work with many of the same clients, the company said. While SpotX (the video […]

The video advertising platform SpotX has invested in supply-side ad server SpringServe, the companies said Monday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Though the deal is not an outright acquisition, SpotX and SpringServe will collaborate on new features that shared customers can use, said SpotX COO Sean Buckley. SpringServe and SpotX are both supply-side […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Josh Cohen, general manager at SpringServe. This year, open-source technology celebrates its 20th birthday. Two decades ago, developers at Netscape formed the Open Source Initiative and created a Linux-based web browser platform that other developers could access and build upon. […]