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Digital Advertising Platforms
For businesses that need to buy, sell, target or measure digital advertising at scale, and for teams trying to stop wasted ad spend or unsold inventory.
19 businesses
Geoedge is a leader in the adtech industry, equipping the industry with real-time, client-side malvertising prevention and ad…
Scalarr is an innovative, next-generation cyber security firm focused on automation and AI to detect and prevent threats in…
Perion is helping agencies, brands and retailers get better results with their marketing investments by providing advanced…
Cheq is the intelligence standard for the human-AI era. 15,000+ companies, from industry innovators to the fortune 50, trust cheq…
Broadstreet gives small publisher sales teams a reason to believe in their products-and themselves. They’re doing important work…
Cience technologies, inc., founded in 2015 and headquartered in Denver, CO, is a pioneering global company in lead generation…
Start.io is a sell-side omnichannel advertising platform powered by real-time mobile audiences. We deliver hundreds of millions…
Vdx.tv is a global, tv/video advertising technology company that helps brands magnify the magic of their tv ads by connecting the…
Appodeal is a global player in ad tech and mobile publishing. Its open-source sdk mediation, programmatic ad exchange, and user…
Gs1 us serves more than 300,000 businesses in 25 industries in the United States by facilitating industry initiatives…
Our award-winning, turnkey PPC management suite is built on a foundation of barrier-smashing AI and machine learning power…
Brafton is what happens when a bunch of creative geniuses get their hands on killer marketing data and tech. Our goal: simplify…
Founded in 2013 in San Francisco, mobileaction is a pioneer in app analytics and the growth partner of apps and games for organic…
Cardlytics (nasdaq: cdlx) is a commerce media platform, powered by our publishers’ first-party purchase data, that makes commerce…
Dimagi is a global social enterprise that powers impactful frontline work through scalable digital solutions and services. Since…
Admarketplace is the largest global marketplace for native search advertising. For over 25 years, we’ve connected brands with…
Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software, offering organizations a single platform for running apps and data across clouds…
Videoamp is a software and data company creating a more sophisticated data-driven advertising ecosystem that redefines how media…
These businesses build and run the infrastructure that moves money through digital advertising: the platforms that buy impressions on exchanges, the networks that connect advertisers to publisher inventory, the tools that manage a campaign's bidding and creative rotation, and the systems that stitch together audience data so an ad reaches the right person. Hire one and what changes is operational — you stop manually setting bids in ten different dashboards, you get a single view of where spend is going across mobile, display, native and programmatic channels, and decisions about targeting, pacing and placement start happening on data rather than guesswork.
People end up here because something concrete is broken. A marketing team is spending across several channels with no consistent way to compare performance, or spend is climbing while conversions stay flat and nobody can say why. A publisher has inventory sitting unsold or being sold too cheaply through a single network. Someone has noticed a chunk of traffic looks like bots and suspects click fraud is eating the budget. Or growth has stalled because the audience data used for targeting is thin, third-party cookies are disappearing, and campaigns are reaching fewer of the right people than they used to.
The providers here split roughly by which side of the transaction they serve and how much they automate. Some are demand-side, built for advertisers to plan, bid and optimise campaigns; others are supply-side, built for publishers to manage and price their inventory; some sit in the middle as networks or data platforms matching the two. Within that, the real differences to compare are: how much is self-serve dashboard versus managed service with an account team doing the work for you; how fraud detection actually works (rules-based filtering versus behavioural modelling) and how transparent the reporting is; whether the data layer relies on first-party data you own or third-party matching that's getting harder to rely on; and how deep the integration goes with the exchanges and channels you actually use, since a platform that's excellent for mobile app install campaigns may be weak on native or CTV. Pricing models vary too — CPM, CPC, percentage of managed spend — and that affects whether the incentives are aligned with your results or just with volume.