Awesome AdTech
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A curated list describing the technology behind advertising!
Whilst advertising is a broad field, this awesome list describes specifically the technology behind it. In this list, expect to learn about the software, datasets, and other technology that brands and agencies use to perform their digital advertising activities!
Awesome AdTech was created and is maintaned by , but contributions from the community to this list are welcome! Just edit the README.md (this document) and send the changes as a pull request, guidelines are available .
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🛡️ AdTech is a fairly intrusive industry, but the current trend has been towards more privacy focused products and methods.
- AdExchanger provides news, analysis and events dedicated to the data-driven marketing space.
- Tracking Ad Trading and the Exchange Marketplace.
- News for the marketing and media industries, with stories, job search resources, events listing.
- Digiday creates content, services and community that foster change in media and marketing.
- Stay on top of important ad tech news in fewer than 15 minutes with one email every Sunday.
- ExchangeWire podcast, with their charismatic CEO .
- Explore the evolution of data-driven digital media and marketing.
- A great subreddit, with some shrewd discussion and > 13k subscribers.
- A small subreddit, with ~1k readers.
- An open slack group, with plenty of discussion around DSPs, DMPs, etc.
- A directory of adtech related twitter accounts.
- Over 60k followers.
- eMarketer is the first place to look for data and research on digital for business professionals who need to be prepared for the work ahead.
- Currently hosting just a single research paper on augmentation of survey data.
- The go to resource for market M&A activity news, covers both AdTech & MarTech.
- A great set of free adtech primers, but does require sharing your email.
- A trade show happening across the globe each year.
- Mobile focused event in Barcelona.
- Global event, with strong lienup of speakers and great parties.
- Open source, cookie-less and privacy focused audience creation & monetisation.
- Entropy based invalid traffic detection and pre-bid filtering.
- Popular header bidder wrapper.
- Header bidder wrapper for verification by the community rather than usage.
- RTBkit is an open-source software package that allows you to create and deploy a Real Time Bidder for display advertising.
- The world's most popular free, open source ad serving system.
- Open source mobile ad exchange.
- Train ML models that learn click-through rate (CTR) prediction models at scale.
- Train and evaluate counterfactual models that learn from logged user-interaction data, to build interactive systems such as search engines and recommendation systems.
- Predict CTR on display ads, from a dataset < 50 MB.
- Data describing which third party entities are most responsible for excessive JavaScript execution on the web.
- The Privacy Sandbox project’s mission is to “Create a thriving web ecosystem that is respectful of users and private by default.”
- The most advanced of the Sandbox proposals, aims to replace cross site behavioural audiences.