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Martech: Advertising

Smaato launches ‘first Inventory Discovery’ feature for mobile advertisers

The self-service capability allows advertisers to directly assess inventory before bidding.

Barry Levine on March 9, 2017 at 12:30 pm
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Mobile ad platform Smaato has launched what it describes as “the advertising industry’s first Inventory Discovery feature.”

Part of the company’s SDX (Smaato Demand Platform), it is a self-service tool so that advertisers can automatically identify the mobile inventory they want to buy.

Filtering allows the identification of inventory based on such parameters as time, Queries Per Second, geography, ad format, operating system or device types. After locating the inventory they want, advertisers can then begin receiving requests for bids.

One might think that programmatic ad platforms are automated throughout, but Senior Vice President of Product Garrett McGrath explained otherwise.

Demand-side platform (DSP) technology can automatically process and bid on specific ad requests for a targeted demographic, he said, such as males aged 18–34 in a specific geography as represented by specific kinds of inventory.

But, he added:

“…the original decision of why to target certain inventory is usually [a] strategic question that’s [manually] agreed upon by the advertiser and the DSP, and related to campaign goals.

“More specifically, the process of assessing available inventory is a rather manual one, requiring a DSP to either keep a record of an exchange’s entire traffic (and to be able to interpret those records), or to request a breakdown of available inventory from the exchange, which will be transmitted in a static fashion, such as a presentation or a spreadsheet. This information can then be used or aggregated for proposals to advertisers, which ultimately result in a decision of which inventory to target for a given campaign.

“Inventory Discovery takes a lot of the manual work out of that assessment, enabling DSPs to directly query availability of exchange inventory (even segmented by various criteria, such as country, app, OS etc.) and use that information, without having to make a phone call or ask for a spreadsheet.”



About The Author

Barry Levine
Barry Levine covers marketing technology for Third Door Media. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and he has written about these and other tech subjects for such publications as CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for Viacom; created a successful interactive game, PLAY IT BY EAR: The First CD Game; founded and led an independent film showcase, CENTER SCREEN, based at Harvard and M.I.T.; and served over five years as a consultant to the M.I.T. Media Lab. You can find him at LinkedIn, and on Twitter at xBarryLevine.

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