Index Exchange CEO Andrew Casale Discusses How Publishers Can Manage Multiple Header-Bidding Vendors

With the growth in header bidding, and the growing number of 'header' solutions on the market, publishers are effectively drowning in JavaScript.

How can they manage multiple header-bidding vendors, and ensure increased yield?

Here Index Exchange CEO Andrew Casale outlines various options to manage this complexity, specifically mediation and the wrapper container tag options.

Key areas covered in this episode include:

– The key differences between a 'mediation' and a 'wrapper' container tag
– The dynamics of the auction process between 'mediation' and 'wrapper' option
– The technical resource required to implement both
– The issue of 'price encryption', and how clearing prices are exposed in some header bidding solutions when bids are passed to the ad server

Ciaran O'Kane: Ciaran O’Kane is the CEO of WireCorp, the publishing holding group focused on the digital advertising, retail technology and gaming sectors.  He has worked in digital advertising over the last twenty years as a developer, digital marketer, ad operations provider, media monetisation specialist and senior sales executive.  He continues to write editorial for ExchangeWire on advertising technology, marketing technology and programmatic  - and acts as an advisor to a number of leading digital media companies in Europe.
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