Billing
Campaign Hygiene
DSPs
Programmatic 101
Stuff I Should Know
100

Name 3 key OMD players we work with for financial/billing related purposes

Azizi "Z", Janae, Manish Jaswal, Neha Adhikari, Ryan Jacob, Aaron Randall, Teddy Nadell

100
What is the first step to troubleshooting a rejected creative?


+100 Bonus! If not solved after step 1, what is the second step?

1. Press "Appeal" button for rejected creatives

2. Reach out to Google support chat for help  

100

List the DV360 build hierarchy

Campaign

Insertion Order

Line Item

Creative

100

Name 4 DSPs

DV360

The Trade Desk

Yahoo DSP

Google Ads

Amazon DSP

Basis

Media Math

100

What is an impression? 

When content is display to a user, regardless of if its clicked or watched

200

Which vendors fall under Ad Serving Fees?

Innovid and DoubleVerify

200

What is our standard Viewability targeting minimum?

30%

200

True or False: In DV360, when updating an IO's Geography targeting settings mid-flight, the changes will auto-apply to the IO's Line Items as well.

False! Updating an IO's settings will not carry over to Line Items.

200

State the Programmatic Buying Method Waterfall from highest to lowest priority

Programmatic Guaranteed
Preferred Deal (Fixed PMP)
Private Auction (Floor PMP)
Open Exchange

200

What does CPM stand for and what is the formula?

Cost per Thousand Impressions

"Cost per Mille"

CPM = (Cost / Impressions) x 1000

300

Name the 3 key tools/platform we use for financial/billing purposes (estimate building, budget submissions, invoice tracking, etc.)

1. Citrix

2. Core

3. Prisma

300

Name two ways to troubleshoot/improve underpacing

Increase bids

Open Viewability restrictions

Open Category restrictions

Open Browser restrictions

Set DSP pacing from Even to ASAP

Expand audience by adding segments

300

List the Google Demand Gen build hierarchy

Campaign

Ad Group

Ad

300

What is the difference between PG and PMP?

Programmatic Guaranteed deals are contractual agreements booked with a fixed price where the buyer and vendor align on budget and impression delivery

Private Market Place deals are non-guaranteed deals that can operate on floor or fixed prices.

300

What does 'RFP' stand for?

Request for Proposal

400

Why is Apple's calendar year different from the standard fiscal calendar year?

- Quarter start based off of September Event/iPhone launch; Q1 starts in October, following the iPhone launch in end of September

- Stocks close at a high in September due to iPhone launch

- Quarter runs from first Sunday of first month to last Saturday of the third month

400

Describe the difference between Insertion Order Pacing Settings Even vs. ASAP vs. Ahead

Even - Spends the same amount each day

ASAP - Spends as much as possible as fast as possible with nothing limiting it from delivering in full before flight's end

Ahead - Spends heavier towards the beginning of the flight with daily spend levels decreasing day over day through end of flight

400

State all inventory formats that Google Demand Gen runs on

1. Gmail

2. Google Discover Feed

3. YouTube Feeds (Home, Search, Watch)

4. VIDEO ONLY YouTube In-Stream

400

Name 5 Exchange Partners

+100 Bonus! Define OE

AppLovin, BidSwitch, Digital Turbine, Google Ad Manager, GumGum, Index Exchange, Kargo, Magnite, Media.net, Nexxen (fka Unruly), OpenX, PubMatic, Sharethrough, SpotX, Tapjoy, Teads, TripleLife, Xandr, Yahoo, Yieldmo


The most standard and unrestricted way to buy inventory. An

Open Exchange is non-guaranteed inventory source that allows many buyers to bid on the inventory of many publishers in an auction environment using automated dynamic CPM bidding. 

400

What does r/f stand for?

Reach and Frequency

500

Define Working Meda vs. Non-Working Media

DSP Spend = WM = Net Fees + Platform Fees

Ad Serving Spend = NWM = Innovid + DoubleVerify

500

Name 4 ways to optimizie and improve performance

Budget - Daily line item caps

Budget - Weight between creatives/audiences

Budget - Shift to top performing buy types

Pause - Underperforming audiences, features, sizes

Sites/Apps - Block poor performers

Day/Time Parting - Block poor performing times

Position - Limit to Above the Fold inventory

500

What is a Custom Intent audience on DV360?

 

Custom Intent audiences allow you to go beyond Display & Video 360's predefined In-Market categories and use your own keywords, URLs (websites), and apps to reach specific people as they are making a purchase decision related to your product or service.

A custom audience made up of Search Keywords and Sites/Apps that the target audience is ideal researching.

Used primarily in performance campaigns

500

Define 1PD

100+ Bonus! Define 2PD

100+ Bonus! Define 3PD

1PD - owned by seller; collected on their O&O

ex. Apple's purchaser data based on Apple website and Apple store purchases

ex. Spotify's data collected from Spotify web/app; put user's who listen to Rock music in a "Rock Lover's" audience

2PD - owned by seller; collect on non-O&O inventory

ex. Google Data (Affinity, In-Market, etc.); collected by Google based on Chrome user accounts and habits across various non-Google sites/apps

3PD - Audience sellers who solely gather and purchase their data collections + solutions and do not own any inventory to collect fro: LiveRamp, Dstillery, Captify, Grapeshot, Foursquare

ex. LiveRamp segment for 'Users who are In-Market for car parts'

ex. FourSquare data for 'Users who have recently visited an Apple store'

500

Fill in Apple KPIs for the following:

Upper Funnel - 

Mid-Funnel - 

Lower Funnel -

Upper (Awareness) - VCR/Views, CTR/Clicks

Mid (Consideration) - QVR/Quality Visits, CPI

Lower (Conversions/Performance) - BFER/Buy Flow Engagers, PBR/Potential Buyers, CPI