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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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What Is an Ad Network? Definition, Types, and Examples

Martech Advisor

Cost-per-click (CPC). The concept of an ad network was championed by DoubleClick in 1996, and after Google bought DoubleClick in 2007 for $3.1 billion, it became DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP), a premium network of publishers for the tech giant. Viewable CPM (vCPM). Cost-per-acquisition (CPA).