eMarketer forecasts that retail media and connected TV (CTV) will be among the fastest-growing digital ad channels this year. Jed Dederick, senior vice president of global client and agency development at demand-side platform The Trade Desk, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss what the firm has learned over the course of the pandemic, what buyers want from CTV and retail media, and why resolving the identity crisis is so important.

As advertisers have cut down on how many demand-side platforms (DSPs) they work with, publishers have increased the number of their supply-side platform (SSP) partners. Lauren T. Fisher, executive vice president of business intelligence at research firm Advertiser Perceptions, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss the company's latest wave of SSP research, why identity resolution is important, and what to expect now that cookie deprecation in Chrome has been delayed.

That could be because buyers can already reach users across multiple sites through audience buys in their demand-side platform (DSP). There is also a lack of standardization across different publisher first-party segments, making it harder for advertisers to trust and compare the quality of audience segments across publishers.

But take social media out of the programmatic direct total, and RTB actually makes up the majority of programmatic transactions. Real-Time Bidding. Historically, open exchanges have been the predominant way to trade RTB inventory. However, that power dynamic flipped in 2020, with PMP ad spending surpassing open exchange ad spending in the UK for the first time.

Real-time bidding (RTB) is an auction-based approach used to buy or sell impression-level inventory. Auctions can be public or private.

Almost all digital display advertising is transacted programmatically now—but that doesn't mean programmatic isn't still evolving. Gila Wilensky, president, US at programmatic media firm Xaxis, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss what Xaxis is expecting for the next 10 years of programmatic advertising, including how AI will continue to evolve in the space, how addressability and measurability will change post-cookie, and what the maturation of ecommerce means for digital advertising.

The pandemic has had all kinds of effects on consumers, and in turn, on how they interact with products and services. eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin speaks with fellow principal analyst Andrew Lipsman and forecasting analyst Eric Haggstrom about what happens when business metrics go haywire, including at Walmart, Nike, and Peloton. They also talk about Facebook's narrowing attribution window, Prime Day finally happening, and Samsung Ads' new self-serve demand-side platform option.

The remainder of programmatic transactions will be done via real-time bidding (RTB), by using private marketplaces (PMPs) or open exchanges to manage auctions. PMP’s share of RTB has traditionally been higher in Canada than in the US—this year, it will be 56.0% in Canada.

Programmatic TV is not done via real-time bidding (RTB), and it is more manual than digital programmatic advertising. Ad-serving technology that enables RTB and dynamic ad insertion of linear inventory has been slow going. Some steps in the programmatic TV ad transaction process like scheduling and stewardship feature little automation.

Principal analyst Lauren Fisher joins guest host and fellow principal analyst Nicole Perrin to discuss Amazon’s plans to offer video ad inventory to demand-side platforms dataxu and The Trade Desk. They also talk about our new programmatic fee estimates, Microsoft’s purchase of ad-tech firm PromoteIQ and Facebook’s offer to pay for news.

When internet users open most websites or apps, a bid request broadcasts information about potential ad impressions far and wide. Johnny Ryan, senior fellow at both the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and the Open Markets Institute, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss why real-time bidding as it's currently executed has personal data protection problems.

eMarketer principal analysts Lauren Fisher and Nicole Perrin consider whether real-time bidding in advertising markets is compatible with the terms of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. They also discuss the effectiveness of social media ads, Walmart’s use of AI cameras to curb retail theft and Roku’s robust sales of streaming devices in Q1 2019.

eMarketer forecasting director Shelleen Shum discusses our estimates for US spending on programmatic direct ads and the factors driving growth.

We expect Amazon’s display advertising to account for around a quarter of net US digital ad revenues, including various types of video ads on Amazon properties, Sponsored Display ads and off-property ads sold through Amazon’s demand-side platform (DSP).

eMarketer principal analyst Lauren Fisher joins fellow principal analyst Nicole Perrin to talk about recent coverage from The Wall Street Journal about how Google came to have the biggest digital ad business. Then they discuss ad tech consolidation and a handful of recent video-focused deals, including Roku’s acquisition of DSP dataxu and Xandr’s purchase of SSP Clypd.

The vast majority of digital display advertising in the US is bought and sold programmatically—that is, with automation, including programmatic direct setups and more traditional forms of real-time bidding (RTB). This year, these transactions will make up 84.5% of the digital display ad market.

Next year, for the first time, programmatic ad spending on private marketplaces (PMP) will surpass that on open exchanges. PMPs—a subset of real-time bidding (RTB) in which some sort of private deal exists between a publisher or a small group of publishers and select ad buyers—will see double-digit growth throughout the forecast period. Growth in PMP ad spending will outpace that of the open markets by about 3 to 1 in 2020 and beyond.

eMarketer principal analyst Debra Aho Williamson and junior analyst Blake Droesch discuss how brands are changing their approach to influencer marketing, the main challenges influencers are struggling with and what influencer marketing might look like going forward. They then talk about TikTok's call-to-action button, how platforms are dealing with misinformation and Twitter's purchase of a mobile-focused demand-side platform.

Amazon DSP makes up a relatively small part of Amazon’s ad business but has topped Advertiser Perceptions’ list of preferred DSPs for a few years. The most recent wave of the researcher’s DSP study was conducted last September and showed continued high marks for Amazon DSP. US agency and marketing professionals surveyed were more likely to both use and prefer Amazon’s over any other DSP.