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Tag: Advertising

Insertion Order

An Insertion Order (IO) is an agreement between the publisher and advertiser to run an ad campaign. It is the final step of a direct sold/bought advertising deal and provides information the ad operations team needs to execute the ad campaign.

Demand-Side Platform

Software technology that enables advertisers to coordinate and manage the automated buying of advertising with supply-side platforms (SSPs)

Ad Impression

The measure of an ad being viewed by whoever is watching the content in which the ad is delivered. This metric, or some form of it, is often used as the basis upon which digital advertising is bought and sold. In practice, an impression for a video ad typically occurs

Industry Associations and Standards Organizations

There are numerous industry associations, trade associations, technical groups, and standards definitions organizations (SDOs), operating in the streaming industry space (or adjacent to it). Below is a list of organizations, a description, a categorization, and a link to the organization itself. Organization Name Category Relevant Documents Simple Description SDO  

Ad ID

Ad ID is a term that generally has two references: 1) a unique identifer for an advertising asset, commonly associated with a registry such as Ad-ID.org or an internal identifer such as ISCI, and 2) a short cut for “advertising identifier”, a unique identifier associated with a device on which

Advertising Identifier

A unique identifier associated with a device on which advertising will be shown that is used for greater control in the targeting of ads to the device. Popular advertising identifiers include Apple’s identifier for advertisers (IDFA) and Google device identifier for Android known as Android Advertising ID (AAID) or Google

Addressable TV

TV advertising model where different ads are shown to different audience segments watching the same TV program. Those segments could be defined by behavioral, demographic, and geographic factors from 1st, 2nd, or 3rd party data sets.

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