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08-05-2022 08:33 AM
#1
Coinis (Member)
Why are DSPs good for buying push traffic?
DSP or Demand-side platform is a programmatic advertising platform where ad buyers can purchase and manage ad inventories from different ad sources.
In other words, DSP is automated media buying through a real-time bidding system. You set the bid for the campaign you are launching and immediately start competing with other marketers for ad place on the publisher’s web page. If you offer the highest bid, and it wins, you get the particular ad space on the website.
Marketers can buy a video, mobile, in-app, and search ads, on a DSP, through real-time bidding (RTB), across many networks. As a result, advertisers do not spend time manually doing publisher hunts with different offers to advertise.
There are many platforms where you can buy push traffic directly for your campaigns, so that's why this post is a part of push section of the forum.
➡️ How Does a DSP Work?
As we all know, DSP is used to replace manual with an automated process of buying ad space through the RTB process.
The flow goes like this:
- Marketer chooses the audience he wants to reach
- Then, the particular ads are set on DSP
- The ad is then available on DSP with the help of SSP and ad exchange
- These two mechanisms, with the assistance of the targeted criteria, send bids to buy ad space through DSP
- Through RTB, marketers compete with each other for the particular ad space
- The winning bid buys ad place through DSP and the ad displays on the publisher’s website.
You may think it looks like a complex and long-lasting process, but I suppose you might be wrong. The process lasts just a couple of milliseconds.
➡️ So, Why You Should Use a DSP By Yourself?
When we mention DSP, we all immediately think about one thing- CONTROL!
You have absolute control over your campaign, how it will be set, how creatives will look, the budget you want to spend on the particular campaign, and traffic sources you want to use. We especially mean that you will avoid fraud traffic that someone may send to your campaign when we say traffic. And that is the beauty of the game: you will prevent everything that might harm the performances and efficiency of your offer.
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Time-saving!
Yes, we know time is money, and when we have any tool that can make our life easier, we will use it for sure!
We will start with saving your time as you do not have to waste it on automated tasks. Instead, you have the ability to focus on setting up your campaigns and their optimization.
🔹
Easy to track
User experience is even better as you can track your campaign’s performances in one dashboard for all the campaigns that you run on your sites. DSP made it possible to track it all in one campaign to gain insight into various ads displayed across multiple websites.
Before DSP in advertising marketing, you would have to create different campaigns for the same purpose, which instantly made reporting more complex.
🔹
Wider audience
Further, it is more profitable, as you can simultaneously advertise on many networks, which means better dissemination of your ads and better response from the audience!
A better conversion rate is something that all marketers love to see. In addition, DSP makes targetting your audience more specialized, so the reach-out is even better!
Publishers + Advertisers = User ad spaming
🔹
User targeting
Information about user behavior is used to optimize the campaign of DSP. It means optimizing user targeting and reaching out to the relevant audience for their ad campaign. There are different targeting options, like demographic targeting, geo-targeting, contextual targeting, behavioral targeting, device targeting, operating system, browser, IP, day/time, retargeting, etc.
🔹
Reporting, analytics, and optimization of the campaigns
One of the essential things on DSP is that you can track the performances of the campaigns you run, on the dashboard, like reports of a page view, website traffic, engagement rates, CTR, etc.
In that case, you can optimize campaigns in the way that suits you best.
🔹
Automated, real-time bidding
The „negotiation” between ad buyers and ad sellers is done in the RTB process in milliseconds while users are loading the web page. The whole process is automated and, as we mentioned, time-saving.
Many Useful Features are Available!
The great thing about DSP is that you have access to
Creative Content Management or Dayparting to make your campaign successful.
These essential tools help you the ad content display as you want.
On the other hand, Dayparting gives you the ability to choose the part of the day the ads will be displayed to your target audience.
🔹
Planning your budget
You can choose how to spend your budget according to the more profitable campaign. However, you do not want to waste money on ad space that will not bring you profit and concrete results. So budget planning for your campaigns is crucial for your advertising business.
🔹
Brand safety
To maintain brand safety, you can blacklist fraud sources that can affect your reputation.
➡️ To wrap it up
Unquestionably, DSP is built to help marketers grow their campaigns to be profitable and effective. DSP helps advertisers benefit, but the users who receive ads are served through the DSP system.
DSP also makes the organization part of your business easier and unburdening, and the seals of the product you are offering can be boosted. Campaigns made through DSP automate all your business efforts and future steps.
Hope we managed to demonstrate the value that DSP brings. If you have any questions we'd be happy to answer them in the comment section!
Cheers,
Coinis Team
08-05-2022 03:03 PM
#2
jaybot (Veteran Member)

Originally Posted by
Coinis
DSP or Demand-side platform is a programmatic advertising platform where ad buyers can purchase and manage ad inventories from different ad sources.
In other words, DSP is automated media buying through a real-time bidding system. You set the bid for the campaign you are launching and immediately start competing with other marketers for ad place on the publisher’s web page. If you offer the highest bid, and it wins, you get the particular ad space on the website.
Marketers can buy a video, mobile, in-app, and search ads, on a DSP, through real-time bidding (RTB), across many networks. As a result, advertisers do not spend time manually doing publisher hunts with different offers to advertise.
There are many platforms where you can buy push traffic directly for your campaigns, so that's why this post is a part of push section of the forum.
➡️ How Does a DSP Work?
As we all know, DSP is used to replace manual with an automated process of buying ad space through the RTB process.
The flow goes like this:
- Marketer chooses the audience he wants to reach
- Then, the particular ads are set on DSP
- The ad is then available on DSP with the help of SSP and ad exchange
- These two mechanisms, with the assistance of the targeted criteria, send bids to buy ad space through DSP
- Through RTB, marketers compete with each other for the particular ad space
- The winning bid buys ad place through DSP and the ad displays on the publisher’s website.
You may think it looks like a complex and long-lasting process, but I suppose you might be wrong. The process lasts just a couple of milliseconds.
➡️ So, Why You Should Use a DSP By Yourself?
When we mention DSP, we all immediately think about one thing- CONTROL!
You have absolute control over your campaign, how it will be set, how creatives will look, the budget you want to spend on the particular campaign, and traffic sources you want to use. We especially mean that you will avoid fraud traffic that someone may send to your campaign when we say traffic. And that is the beauty of the game: you will prevent everything that might harm the performances and efficiency of your offer.
Time-saving!
Yes, we know time is money, and when we have any tool that can make our life easier, we will use it for sure!
We will start with saving your time as you do not have to waste it on automated tasks. Instead, you have the ability to focus on setting up your campaigns and their optimization.
Easy to track
User experience is even better as you can track your campaign’s performances in one dashboard for all the campaigns that you run on your sites. DSP made it possible to track it all in one campaign to gain insight into various ads displayed across multiple websites.
Before DSP in advertising marketing, you would have to create different campaigns for the same purpose, which instantly made reporting more complex.
Wider audience
Further, it is more profitable, as you can simultaneously advertise on many networks, which means better dissemination of your ads and better response from the audience!
A better conversion rate is something that all marketers love to see. In addition, DSP makes targetting your audience more specialized, so the reach-out is even better!
Publishers + Advertisers = User ad spaming
User targeting
Information about user behavior is used to optimize the campaign of DSP. It means optimizing user targeting and reaching out to the relevant audience for their ad campaign. There are different targeting options, like demographic targeting, geo-targeting, contextual targeting, behavioral targeting, device targeting, operating system, browser, IP, day/time, retargeting, etc.
Reporting, analytics, and optimization of the campaigns
One of the essential things on DSP is that you can track the performances of the campaigns you run, on the dashboard, like reports of a page view, website traffic, engagement rates, CTR, etc.
In that case, you can optimize campaigns in the way that suits you best.
Automated, real-time bidding
The „negotiation” between ad buyers and ad sellers is done in the RTB process in milliseconds while users are loading the web page. The whole process is automated and, as we mentioned, time-saving.
Many Useful Features are Available!
The great thing about DSP is that you have access to
Creative Content Management or Dayparting to make your campaign successful.
These essential tools help you the ad content display as you want.
On the other hand, Dayparting gives you the ability to choose the part of the day the ads will be displayed to your target audience.
Planning your budget
You can choose how to spend your budget according to the more profitable campaign. However, you do not want to waste money on ad space that will not bring you profit and concrete results. So budget planning for your campaigns is crucial for your advertising business.
Brand safety
To maintain brand safety, you can blacklist fraud sources that can affect your reputation.
➡️ To wrap it up
Unquestionably, DSP is built to help marketers grow their campaigns to be profitable and effective. DSP helps advertisers benefit, but the users who receive ads are served through the DSP system.
DSP also makes the organization part of your business easier and unburdening, and the seals of the product you are offering can be boosted. Campaigns made through DSP automate all your business efforts and future steps.
Hope we managed to demonstrate the value that DSP brings. If you have any questions we'd be happy to answer them in the comment section!
Cheers,
Coinis Team
Great. What are some examples of DSP networks where I can buy traffic?
Everyone knew
Voluum DSP since it was in the name, but that’s gone now.
Where else would you recommend?
08-07-2022 09:49 PM
#3
matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Originally Posted by
jaybot
Great. What are some examples of DSP networks where I can buy traffic?
Everyone knew
Voluum DSP since it was in the name, but that’s gone now.
Where else would you recommend?
I've used some in the past but looks like pretty much all that were affiliate friendly just closed shop or lost the biggest publishers.
There were some solid platforms with great volumes, like Smaato, but you cannot buy directly from them on a low scale.
I'd like to hear about some solid DSPs too... do you have any recommendations @
Coinis ?
08-09-2022 10:08 AM
#4
Coinis (Member)
You can check one of the following networks, Propellerads, Adsterra, Pushground, Richads, Pushub - have you had any experience with these platforms?
Not to sound like self-promotion but we’ve also developed our own DSP since we have our own push inventory, you can check it out as well.
08-09-2022 10:13 AM
#5
Coinis (Member)

Originally Posted by
matuloo
I've used some in the past but looks like pretty much all that were affiliate friendly just closed shop or lost the biggest publishers.
There were some solid platforms with great volumes, like Smaato, but you cannot buy directly from them on a low scale.
I'd like to hear about some solid DSPs too... do you have any recommendations @
Coinis ?
Not sure about other DSPs regarding scale, on ours the advertisers minimum deposit needed is $100 currently, so they usually test and scale from there.
08-09-2022 11:27 AM
#6
matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Originally Posted by
Coinis
You can check one of the following networks, Propellerads, Adsterra, Pushground, Richads, Pushub - have you had any experience with these platforms?
Not to sound like self-promotion but we’ve also developed our own DSP since we have our own push inventory, you can check it out as well.
Ah so you mean the standard traffic networks. We all know all of them of course, that's where majority of the forum members get their traffic from
Seems like we have a bit different understanding of what a true DSP is about compared to a traffic network.
For example propeller, they have a ton of their own traffic sources/publishers that you cannot buy anywhere else, just like a traffic network should.
While a standard DSP just serves as the access point to large traffic exchanges where we (affiliates) cannot buy directly.
There used to be quite a few of these in the past, but it's true that even standard traffic networks now sell from various feeds that are available to plenty of them, so essentially they have become DSP hybrids as well... selling both their own inventory and the one from larger exchanges.
08-10-2022 03:37 PM
#7
Coinis (Member)

Originally Posted by
matuloo
Ah so you mean the standard traffic networks. We all know all of them of course, that's where majority of the forum members get their traffic from
Seems like we have a bit different understanding of what a true DSP is about compared to a traffic network.
For example propeller, they have a ton of their own traffic sources/publishers that you cannot buy anywhere else, just like a traffic network should.
While a standard DSP just serves as the access point to large traffic exchanges where we (affiliates) cannot buy directly.
There used to be quite a few of these in the past, but it's true that even standard traffic networks now sell from various feeds that are available to plenty of them, so essentially they have become DSP hybrids as well... selling both their own inventory and the one from larger exchanges.
Oh I missed the title you have under your nick

so of course you know all the networks. I agree, many networks nowadays provide a combination of their own traffic and access to other traffic sources. We are having a bit of misconception regarding those 2 words -> DSP and traffic networks, but as we can see from our experience, those 2 are easily almost becoming one thing, just like you said. We are having a lot of hybrids where advertisers simply can’t be sure if it’s either one of those.
08-10-2022 04:28 PM
#8
twinaxe (Senior Moderator)
Nowadays most networks that also sell external traffic could be considered as DSP as well.
In my opinion the biggest difference between a traffic network and a "real" DSP is the bidding.
For example for push traffic you buy on traffic networks through direct link and set a fixed CPC for the campaign.
On a DSP you mostly use RTB that can help to pay the lowest possible price for your desired traffic but often/mostly you pay per impression there.
"Real" DSPs without own direct traffic also often sell the remnant traffic from other traffic networks.
08-10-2022 10:24 PM
#9
matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Originally Posted by
Coinis
those 2 are easily almost becoming one thing, just like you said. We are having a lot of hybrids where advertisers simply can’t be sure if it’s either one of those.
Yup, the situation has changed quite a bit, most traffic networks are actually DSPs to some extent by now
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