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Programmatic Advertising Glossary & Brief History

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A brief history of programmatic digital advertising To understand programmatic advertising, we have to travel back to 1994 when the first banner ad was displayed. Hotwired.com made a deal with AT&T to display a banner ad on their site for three months. At this time, ads were first-come, first-served (literally).

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When Did Programmatic Advertising Start: A History Lesson

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Remember those banner ads that you used to see when scrolling through MySpace or talking to your best friend via the antiquated AOL Instant Messenger? Those ads that we would see on our computers after school, or deep in a chat with your best friend, were actually the beginning of what we call Programmatic Advertising today.

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What is Programmatic Digital Advertising?

Digilant

To understand programmatic advertising, we have to travel back to 1994 when the first banner ad was displayed. Hotwired.com made a deal with AT&T to display a banner ad on their site for three months. At this time, ads were first-come, first-served (literally). And what did Google do to combat this?