Jargon Buster

Any advertising that appears before requested content has loaded, blocking the consumer from progressing until either a countdown has elapsed or the duration of an ad experience has been achieved. These are currently discouraged for desktop web and mobile web experiences due to consumer feedback.

Refers to the dominant area of advertising displayed on the screen. The Primary Ad unit should be described as either Full screen or Partial screen.

In 2019, Google announced its Privacy Sandbox initiative, which seeks to find alternative solutions for advertisers to target and measure campaigns in light of the continued reduction of third-party data in Chrome. This was initially established to operate in Chrome, but Google announced in February 2022 that the scheme will be extended to also cover the Android operating system. 

A way to buy/sell programmatic advertising. This auction type is very similar to an open auction, except a publisher restricts participation to select buyers/advertisers. A publisher may choose to not participate in an open auction and only run an invitation-only auction. It is important to note that an invitation-only auction is still an auction and buyers will be expected to bid on inventory. A publisher may choose to expose different information such as transparency or data, through the use of deal IDs or line items to add value to this select group of buyers while using this tactic.

The buying and selling of online ad inventory through automated methods rather than human actions. This includes but is not limited to Real-Time Bidding (RTB).

The buying and selling of online ad inventory through automated methods rather than human actions, often using AI. This includes but is not limited to Real-Time Bidding (RTB).

This process involves optimising the programmatic supply chain to reduce carbon emissions. For example, a media owner might reduce the number of programmatic partners it uses by focusing on those that deliver impressions and revenue, cutting those that don’t deliver impressions but that still generate carbon through ad calls.

Programmatic TV is an automated approach to buying and delivering an auction-based broadcast TV advertising through a technology platform. Programmatic TV ads are served to the whole audience watching that TV programme at that specific time. This contrasts with Addressable TV, which serves targeted ads to individual users, on a one-to-one device-level basis, using real-time data.

A distribution method for serving video files in which the video file downloads over time into the cache of a user’s computer, much the same way images and other content elements are downloaded.