And, while the overall lift in yield is significant \u2014 we found up to 10% in our internal testing with Google\u2019s open beta release \u2014 the pricing floors are only communicated to programmatic buyers through Google\u2019s AdX and Open Bidding (OB). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meaning, the new floor disproportionately impacts alternative sources of revenue (eg, Prebid) since publishers using other channels do not have access to Google\u2019s new floor data. Buyers using these channels cannot modify their bid accordingly, making their bids less competitive in the market. Not surprisingly, as a result we saw AdX\u2019s share of wallet increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So while we applaud Google for taking steps towards capturing more value for publishers through this initiative, we believe everyone in the ad tech marketplace should have access to the same information, at the same time, regardless of demand channel in order for a fair and transparent ecosystem to thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is optimized pricing?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
According to Google, optimized pricing will protect the value of publishers\u2019 inventory by using machine learning to intelligently increase auction floor prices to more accurately reflect inventory value and prevent buyers from being able to purchase it for less than it\u2019s worth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For publishers sending bids through AdX or OB, optimized pricing will be enabled by default, initially launching on a subset of web traffic, and gradually rolling out to more traffic over time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But publishers also rely on alternative sources of demand, such as Prebid, which runs a separate auction and then sends the winning bids to compete within Google Ad Manager. The highest bid from Prebid still may lose the auction as it is competing with other sources of demand \u2013 from direct advertising or Amazon TAM, in addition to AdX and OB. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So buyers need to know what the asking price is for an impression, otherwise they risk bidding too low and not winning. If AdX and OB auctions have the floor price information available to their buyers, but Prebid auctions do not, then buyers can\u2019t amend their bids\u00a0before the auction<\/em>\u00a0to give themselves the best chance of winning an impression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To explore the idea of audience attention in more detail, and learn how publishers can leverage engagement to maximize ad earnings, download our latest book,\u00a0Capturing the Signals: How Reader Attention Can Drive More Revenue<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The feature is expected to increase the prices of publishers\u2019 paid inventory without negatively affecting their overall earnings Last week, Google told advertisers that, starting in early June, it will begin rolling out optimized pricing by default to improve publisher ad revenue. For publishers, we see this as a positive move by the tech giant: more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":43158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17614],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[1319,1334,2821,14152,1655,2006,2240,1712,1236,1388],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamakersmeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamakersmeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamakersmeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamakersmeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamakersmeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mediamakersmeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamakersmeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamakersmeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamakersmeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamakersmeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53857"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamakersmeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=53857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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