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Programmatic Advertising Glossary & Brief History

Digilant

This led to creating the programmatic ecosystem’s first element: an ad server – DoubleClick to be specific (which would eventually be purchased by Google for $3.1 billion in 2007). Right before the turn of the millennium, competition arose for DoubleClick as they couldn’t keep up with the demand.

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When Did Programmatic Advertising Start: A History Lesson

Rev

With this big 90s boom, servers needed to be created just for ads – DoubleClick, who is still around today, was the first in the field as a supplier. This is when Google marketing cleaned up the mess, and launched AdWords , which offered CPC pricing and let advertisers pay to run campaigns solely on the Google network.

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What is Programmatic Digital Advertising?

Digilant

This led to creating the programmatic ecosystem’s first element: an ad server – DoubleClick to be specific (which would eventually be purchased by Google for $3.1 billion in 2007). . Right before the turn of the millennium, competition arose for DoubleClick as they couldn’t keep up with the demand.

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Gene Carr's Patron Technology Blog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

December 2007. November 2007. October 2007. It was a study of responses from 30,000 surveys sent in April, to senior executives at companies with 2007 revenues exceeding $100 million. But then again, neither was Google until it invented AdWords. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008. July 22, 2008.