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The Trade Desk

byThe Trade Desk
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5.0
2025
Market Presence: Ad Tech Platforms, Programmatic Segment-Based Advertising

Overview

Service Information on The Trade Desk

Updated 9th June 2025

What is The Trade Desk?

The Trade Desk's demand-side platform enables programmatic segment-based advertising by aggregating data from multiple sources to create detailed audience segments, then using real-time bidding algorithms to automatically purchase ad inventory when users matching those segments become available across various exchanges and platforms. The platform leverages Unified ID 2.0 for cross-device tracking, allowing consistent targeting as users move between phones, tablets, and desktops, while machine learning continuously optimizes campaigns by analyzing segment performance and adjusting bidding strategies to focus budget on the highest-converting audiences. This approach enables advertisers to reach precise audience segments at scale while The Trade Desk handles the complex technical infrastructure of real-time bidding, data integration, and cross-platform execution.

The Trade Desk Pricing

The Trade Desk platform fee is calculated monthly on a percentage of the total cost run through the platform, which includes any media spend, data spend, and fees for any additional features selected. Pricing for all available features can be found within the platform, making it easy for our clients to select options that best suit their needs and understand their total spend each month.

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Overall experience with The Trade Desk

Regional Director, Media Buying
50M - 250M USD, Media
FAVORABLE

“Trade Desk Revolutionizes OTT Inventory Accessibility”

5.0
Oct 17, 2024
The Trade Desk makes it easy to tap into OTT inventory from a variety of sources. Advertisers can set up their own direct deals with publishers, or they can tap into deals already created by Trade Desk. As of recently, Trade Desk has also introduced the Sellers and Publishers 500+, curating the best of the open internet, including OTT.
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2025
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 11th September 2024

The company's primary focus is providing a media buying platform geared towards the open internet. It aims to facilitate marketers in reaching a larger audience by offering enhanced transparency and choice throughout all stages, from planning to pricing to performance. The company's primary business problem that it solves is creating an accessible, unbiased marketplace on the internet for ideas, content and commerce. By prioritizing the idea of the open internet, the organization is dedicated to maintaining the internet landscape's inclusivity and openness.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2009
Head office location
Ventura, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
http://www.thetradedesk.com

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Reviewer Insights for: The Trade Desk

The Trade Desk Likes & Dislikes

Like

1. Multiple options for targeting and blocking inventory. 2. Content signals and pushing for transparency from publishers. 3. Metrics like TVQI (TV Quality Index) to help us understand more about the inventory in which our ads are running. 4. Pricing transparency with media costs, data costs, platform fees, and feature fees. 5. Aggregation of sites/apps/entities to roll up to Publisher field. 6. Cross-device graph allows conversion tracking from OTT devices to other user or household devices.

Like

customer service and support is second to none. the logical (yet very complicated behind the scenes) way this platform is built almost instant optimizations

Like

Support, industry leading tech

Dislike

1. Deal delivery troubleshooting tools are only available at the ad group level (cannot do partner-wide troubleshooting) 2. Koa can sometimes apply drastic bid factors to publishers. 3. Would like more detailed step-by-step information in the Knowledge Portal.

Dislike

i cant think of any negatives

Dislike

No dynamic feed options, more partner level libraries, no more planning tool

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Evaluation & Contracting

5.0

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4.7

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4.7

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4.3

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  • Regional Director, Media Buying
    50M-1B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Trade Desk Revolutionizes OTT Inventory Accessibility

    5.0
    Oct 17, 2024
    The Trade Desk makes it easy to tap into OTT inventory from a variety of sources. Advertisers can set up their own direct deals with publishers, or they can tap into deals already created by Trade Desk. As of recently, Trade Desk has also introduced the Sellers and Publishers 500+, curating the best of the open internet, including OTT.
  • REGIONAL MANAGER, MEDIA BUYING
    50M-1B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Impressive Outcomes with OTT on TTD Platform

    5.0
    Oct 13, 2024
    ttd is simply a great platform for our agency needs. weve run multi-millions in OTT and have had great support and results.
  • DIRECTOR OF MARKETING
    50M-1B USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Great product, excellent service.

    5.0
    Oct 21, 2024
    Excellent experience. Has been my preferred DSP for years.
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