Chalk this up to a bunch of reasons, some more rational (curated costs more) than others (an unwillingness to be accountable). All of them, however, can be traced back to the fact that advertisers still aren’t overly familiar with all the intricacies of programmatic advertising.
January 19, 2023

The curation of programmatic marketplaces gathers pace across advertising -- except with advertisers

Advertisers continue to buy many of their programmatic ads from one, all-encompassing (often opaque) programmatic marketplace. That's despite the fact that they don't necessarily have to.

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Chalk this up to a bunch of reasons, some more rational (curated costs more) than others (an unwillingness to be accountable). All of them, however, can be traced back to the fact that advertisers still aren’t overly familiar with all the intricacies of programmatic advertising.
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