Vision Report

The Future Of DSPs

Assess Your Programmatic Platform Approach Now To Prepare For Data Deprecation

Joanna O'Connell
 and  three contributors
Jan 21, 2022

Summary

Media buyers have long valued the promise of demand-side platforms (DSPs): centralized places to holistically manage and optimize programmatic media and audiences to deliver optimized performance, operational efficiency, and curated cross-channel consumer ad experiences. But data deprecation existentially threatens this promise, rendering the fate of the traditional DSP uncertain. Independent buy-side players with proprietary data, media, or direct consumer access and those that uniquely facilitate publisher access will have a place. Marketers must take a hard look at the current DSP roster, assess cost-benefit, and consider their near- and long-term needs to achieve the right mix of partners.

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