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What is a Supply Side Platform ?

A Supply Side Platform is a cloud-based software platform used by publishers to monetize their inventory with Ad Exchange, ad networks, and demand side platform (DSP) at the same time to sell impressions at their highest value in real time.

Some people often confuse the SSP acronym of Supply Side Platform for Sell Side Platform, but they are very much the same things.

Supply Side Platforms are integrated into a Publishers Ad Server via a few options;

  1. Fully integrated into the Ad Server (Appnexus Supply Side Platform and Appnexus Ad Server are one the same)
  2. Integrated via Header Bidding (ie Prebid.org or similar wrapper)
  3. Installed via Ad Tags typically at the bottom of the Ad Server often referred to as a Daisy Chain)

Supply Side Platforms are uniquely different by company, but they essentially allow a publisher to sell programmatically via PMPs / Deals using a variety of options like Data or Categorization. For example, store retailers use supply side platform to sell the impressions for consumer package goods.

Publishers often work with multiple Supply Side Platforms to gain differentiated Demand Sources ie the integrated with Google Adx allows unique demand from Google’s Self Service product, Adwords.

Major Supply Side Platforms include; Xandr, Rubicon Project, Index Exchange, Pubmatic, Google Adx to name a few.

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Related Glossary Terms:
  • Cost Per View
    Cost Per View (CPV) is programmatic bidding method to buy video impressions, meaning the advertiser will only pay for video impressions (VAST or VPAID) when the impression is actually viewed.
  • CPV
    CPV is programmatic bidding method to buy video impressions, advertiser will only pay for video impressions when actually viewed. An advertiser will only pay for video impressions (VAST or VPAID) using the programmatic bidding technique known as "CPV" (or "Cost Per View") if the impression is actually seen.
  • Demand Side Platform
    A Demand Side Platform (or DSP) cover everything from automatically buying ad inventory to managing it and tracking results. A demand-side platform is a system that allows users to manage many ad exchange and data exchange accounts through a single interface.
  • SSP
    A SSP (referred to as a Supply Side Platform) is a software platform used by publishers to monetize their inventory with ad exchanges, ad networks, and DSPs at the same time to sell impressions at their highest value in real time.


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