Platforms that allow advertisers, agencies, publishers and others to control their own first-party audience and campaign data, compare it to third-party audience data, and give the ability to make smarter media buying and campaign planning decisions via behavioural targeting or extending audiences via lookalike modeling. Advertisers and agencies generally utilise DMPs in order to buy more effectively while publishers typically utilise DMPs in order to segment their audiences and sell more effectively.
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Data management platform (DMP)
Data minimisation
Data minimisation refers to providing or restricting access to only the data that is absolutely necessary for performing a specific task or achieving a given outcome.
Delivery method
Gaming
Available mechanisms to deliver ads to the game. One might be tempted to classify this as an attribute of the ad, but it is the game software itself that executes insertions.
Demand-side platform (DSP)
An advertising technology platform which allows marketers to manage their online media campaigns by facilitating the buying of auction-based display media and audience data across multiple inventory and data suppliers in a centralised management platform.
Digital rights management (DRM)
Digital rights management involves a set of technologies used by publishers and media owners to control access to their digital content. Access can be limited to the number of times a piece of content is accessed from a single machine or user account; the number of times access permissions can be passed on; or the lifespan of a piece of content.
Digital Trading Standards Group (DTSG)
The industry successor to IASH, the DTSG is an independent audit of trading practices that suppliers offering extended network traffic beyond single-source premium destinations can sign up to, offered by JICWEBS (the Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards). Suppliers agree to follow the DTSG UK Good Practice Principles and be audited regularly to ensure they are offering brand-safe environments for brands to appear against.
Direct billing API
A direct billing API can be used to customise a purchase process that does not require the user to leave where they are.
Discrepancy
The difference in campaign reporting numbers for key measurements such as impressions and clicks between multiple adservers.
Display advertising
Display advertising is a type of online advertising on web sites. It includes many different formats and contains items such as text, images, video, audio and comes in several physical format sizes.