The New Digital Advertising Ecosystem Part IV: The Life of a Programmatic Ad Impression

With advertisers set to spend more than $9 billion on programmatic buying by 2017, we all know the future is coming. However, confusion still exists about how ad exchanges and data driven buying really work.

In this latest in our series on the new Digital advertising ecosystem we look at the incredibly short but complex life cycle of a programmatic RTB ad.

Watch as a digital ad is bid on, bought, sold, delivered, and seen. It begins the moment your browser loads, and in the blink of an eye, an ad is served.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTg9l4d8MU4

Thanks to MediaCrossing for the video and takeaway infographic below.

200-Milliseconds

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Tom Simpson

Tom Simpson is the founder and editor of Digital in Asia, an independent publication covering Asia's digital economy since 2013. He writes the Hyperfuture Memo on Substack and is the founder of AK3R, his investing and advisory brand across gaming, AI, adtech, and digital media. Tom is based in Singapore.

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