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Digiday Programmatic Media Summit Fall 2019 | Meredith
1. The Land of Unintended
Consequences
Digiday Programmatic Media
Summit
Chip Schenck
SVP, Data & Programmatic Solutions
Meredith Corporation
November, 2019
14. • Header Bidding: Which
bid request is unique?
• Bid caching: Will this bid
be used for something
else?
• Bid shading: What the?!
The push for
transparency
has led to
some form of
decreased
transparency!
17. The Path
Forward
Consult impacted parties to get a
full sense of impact
Implement in stages to see the
consequences
Make decisions as an industry, not
as individuals (think: PMP, T&Cs,
standard formats)
Create new set of common
language or standards
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18. Thank you!
Digiday Programmatic Media
Summit
Chip Schenck
SVP, Data & Programmatic Solutions
Meredith Corporation
November, 2018
Notas del editor
Hi I am Chip schenck
Been told I can’t use my name as a joke anymore as it has become too offensive
That must make my wife feel great for taking my last name
She is a brave woman who clearly loves me
Have New intro: My name is Chip and my wife definitely loves me
Speaking of my wife…
conversation where you say something incorrect, fixing the mistake makes it worse
Introduced Kim as my current wife
Corrected with ‘my real wife’
Apologized and corrected with ‘my only wife’
Kim stepped in and introduced herself. -hi ‘I am kim’
In our bid to solve transparency, I feel the same way
Each step we take leads to an unintended consequence that needs to be resolved
Started with Marketer focus on lower fees
Agencies charged standard 15%, we still refer to gross vs net
agencies reduced fees to win, therefore force to look elsewhere for revenue
agencies looking for profit from their media partners rather than their clients
In programmatic, manifested in programmatic for profit not performance
Large agency many:1 deals with lower prices, marked up inventory and charged clients more
Spend Decisions made on where largest margin was, not what performs best
cant blame agencies,
ironically clients were indignant when heard fees and margin business was built in
Another:
In move no transparency ad networks to RTB was the promise of the transparency of an exchange
more transparency who selling/buying at what price, but traded for lack of visibility
In ad network we can tell who ripping us off – in RTB, we traded the face for the faceless and untraceable
accelerated the lack of transparency
So much money into RTB it was like chumming the water for sharks
Then my favorite: viewability
Of course clients deserve to have their ads viewable
The transparency into what % of ads were in view vs not was a reasonable ask
measurement technology was inconsistent and untested
demand for 100% viewability” had unforeseen user consequences
Pubs re-engineered pages around ad placement, not easy reading
Increases in ad slot density, ad exposure optimization, lazy load
All resulting in a worse user experience,
sites starting to look like casino slot machines
2nd price auctions seen as less-transparent b/c of the spread between bid and close price
Answer to more transparency was a move to 1st price auction - bid the true value of the impression
Hope was to make impression value more transparent and understand where the loss actually was
Ah bid shading…
Consequence of move to 1st price led to bid shading
very definition of non-transparency, even in its name
we take a somewhat transparent decisioning process (learned over years) and t
rade for a new, non-transparent black box designed to push price down further
Let’s talk about the granddaddy of non-transparency…
Google didn’t give much control nor bid metric transparency to publishers
Google's not giving control to publisher led to HB
wonder if they would have liked a redo on that one!
New demand paths exploded by 1000s in drive for increased cpms and bid transparency
This created a lack of transparency for demand side
they couldn’t tell difference of the same impression over multiple exchanges
The result has been recent push to SPO
Early stages, clearly muddy the transparency waters as SSP’s fight to not lose demand
The demand side decision is fairly non-transparent to publisher, as is when an actual path is cut –
a pub wont know that they are not getting certain demand because the cut has been made at the DSP-SSP level
The result will be a squeeze on SSPs –
Ultimately resulting in pricing, rebates and other non-transparent practices
SSPs struggling to stay in business
In an age of transparency, each these unintended consequences has led to some form/decrease in transparency: HB - which bid request is unique? Bid caching - will this bid be used for something else? Bid shading - WTF is going on getting double charged
Each new tech development seems to be fixing the consequence from the last
typically happens when one large player or side of the business makes an inflexible sweeping change, usually as reaction to an issue
There is no consultation, nor consideration for the impact other than focus on the ‘thing’ itself
And those who are impacted are forced to react
What about the latest changes?
Hypothetically what happens if Google changes the rules of their tech and removes context from the bid request…
or increases floor transparency by only allowing for one floor across all 3rd party demand…
what will the unintended consequence be then?
Industry needs to get transparency standards in place BEFORE making sweeping moves. No way to prevent but impact can be lessened:
Consult the impacted parties to get a full sense for the impact
Implement in stages to then see the consequences/reactions rather than one big change
Make decisions as an industry not as individuals - it is slower, but it works:
the structure for pmp is still in use today; ad standards, T&Cs, standardized formats, tech protocols
Understand and create new set of common language or standards
Thank you – and look forward to seeing you in 2021 to grade our progress!