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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. AdSense quickly became synonymous with spam and ad fraud.

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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? Little did we know that those tiny banners were just scratching the surface of the US digital ad-spend, and that the industry would soon be one of the top display-ad expenditures. .

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What is Programmatic Digital Advertising?

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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. Right before the turn of the millennium, competition arose for DoubleClick as they couldn’t keep up with the demand.