Programmatic Glossary

ATD: agency trading desk
An owned agency that handles programmatic buying for a media agency. Different from ITD that are indipendent from a Media Center.
SSP: Supply Side platform
Software platform that allows publishers connect their inventory with ad exchanges, networks, and DSPs at the same time to sell impressions at their highest value in real time.
DSP: demand side platform
Platform that allows buyers to automate the purchase of display, video, mobile, and search ads.

DMP: Data management platform
Centralized management platform used by agencies, publishers, and brands helps manage first-party data and integrate it with third-party data to tie user information and activity together and optimize media buys.
RTB: Real time biddingOA: open auction
Inventory prices are decided in real-time trough an auction and advertiser or any buyer can partecipate.
PA: Private Auction
A Private auction is very similar to an open auction, except publishers restrict participation to selected advertisers only.
PD: Preferred Deal
Preferred Deals is a feature that allows sellers to offer inventory to buyers at a negotiated fixed price, before the inventory is made available to other buyers in the Open Auction
PG: programmatic guaranteed
Sellers and buyers negotiate a deal with a set price and run date. This is completed outside of an auction.
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