Samuel Youn

From clear-eyed looks at the industry’s shortcomings and conflicts of interest to prognostications that presage the next batch of conference panel talking points, you can count on these astute industry voices to drive the conversation.

In addition to buy-side integrations, content curation, proprietary ad formats and flexible pricing models are also helping set SSPs apart.

While an SSP’s primary function as the technological connection to advertising demand for publishers remains, the strategic value an SSP provides has changed. So it might be time for SSPs to abandon revenue sharing with publishers in favor of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model.