SSPs break with the past as push comes to shove in ad tech

SSPs break with the past as push comes to shove in ad tech

Magnite explores facilitating deals without DSPs while PubMatic moots charging publishers for demand. In other words, competition in ad tech is ratcheting up, especially among SSPs.

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