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Technorati Finds Almost Half of Publishers Are Frustrated by Programmatic Demand Partners Not Able to Compete with Each Other on Each ImpressionSAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Technorati, which provides publisher side solutions that bring parity to programmatic advertising and improve performances across revenue partnerships, today revealed that almost half of publishers (45.45 %) say they are frustrated by not being able to have demand partners compete with each other on each impression. As a result they are forced to use tactics they don't peculiarly like to try and maximize yield. In a survey of over 600 buy- and sell-side professionals, almost half of publishers (49 %) say they use passbacks and floor prices to maximize yield of programmatic demand solutions, essentially "daisy-chaining" or waterfalling, the practice of giving each partner in a series a chance at an impression before moving it along to the next partner if it is not purchased. About the same percentage manually adjust ad serving rules based on estimated CPMs and fill and/or work with fixed-CPM partners. "Publishers need to ensure that every impression is sold at its highest possible value. When sequential auctions or manually estimating bids for buyers are the only options for a publisher, both the buy and sell side suffer from lack of true competition and access," says Shani Higgins, Technorati's CEO. "As we learned from our survey, publishers need a lot more help than they are getting to ensure an optimal trading process." When asked, "Which of the following are the biggest challenges you face working with programmatic demand solutions?" 45.45% of publishers said, "Not being able to have demand partners compete with each other on each impression" while nearly the same number (43.43%) said, "Daisy Chaining or Waterfalling partners is inefficient and not as effective as I'd like it to be." Nearly half (44.44%) said, "Not having my own internal developers with time/resources/ expertise to support my needs. While a similar number (43.43%) lamented, "Not having the technology and tools that address my needs." Interestingly, while the majority (64.71%) of publishers (and buyers) use just 1 to 5 program-matic partners, a significant segment of both groups use more than 6 programmatic partners (29% for buyers and 27% for sellers). "The fragmentation of demand puts publishers in the untenable position of baring the costs in workhours and tech stacks for each separate relationship," says Ms. Higgins. The survey was conducted in conjunction with Digiday, from June 23rd to July 10th and is part of a "report card" about how buyers and seller regard one another in the programmatic space. Programmatic (mainly open marketplace) buying is now claiming the bulk of digital budgets, averaging about 46 percent of spending. Here is a link to the full survey results: http://contango.technorati.com/State_of_the_Industry.pdf Among other highlights from the survey:
Technorati (http://technorati.com), which provides publisher side solutions that bring parity to programmatic advertising and improve performances across revenue partnerships, is a company of advertising specialists advocating for publishers. Through its first-hand experience of the challenges publishers face in programmatic, the company has a proven track record building scaled technology to address those challenges. This year it developed Contango, a new software that puts the publisher's needs first. Contango's first feature, Smartwrapper, (now in Beta) addresses the unmet need of publishers to scale, manage and bring transparency to advance /header bidding partnerships. Contango and SmartWrapper have no inherent conflict of interest (no commissions and fully neutral to the winning platform/partner because it's priced simply as software as a service). With Contango, publishers can be assured they're getting the maximum return for their opportunity. Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150831/262139LOGO
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