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The Trade Desk

byThe Trade Desk
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4.8
2025
Market Presence: Ad Tech Platforms, Programmatic Segment-Based Advertising

Overview

Product 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

Senior Programmatic Specialist
1B - 3B USD, Media
FAVORABLE

“Platform Offers hugely diverse inventory with great retargeting potential. ”

5.0
Sep 30, 2025
Overall, the product is really useful to use. It allows us to access many different types of inventory from all over the globe including Display, Video, OLV, Audio, CTV & DOOH!
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CRITICAL

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Gartner Peer Insights recognizes vendors who meet or exceed both the market average Overall Experience and the market average User Interest and Adoption score through a Customers’ Choice distinction.
2025
For Market:
Ad Tech Platforms

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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The Trade Desk Likes & Dislikes

Like

I like how we can access many different formats within one platform e.g. CTV, Display & Audio. Great how we can retarget users from different campaigns. e.g. from a user who has seen audio, retarget with CTV ad. This increases full funnel activity hitting the same users in different formats. great hands on support with Campaign QAs/ set up/ optimisations / support etc.

Like

I love how user friendly the DSP is and how I can pull reports based on my needs no matter how niche of a data set I'm looking for.

Like

I like the Conversion Lift capability...this serves a quick & easy way to help client's measure a campaign's true incrementality.

Dislike

- more complicated to use compared to other DSPs. - Report's don't download immediately compared to other DSPs. - High added costs that aren't always explained e.g. data/feature costs

Dislike

Nothing comes to mind.

Dislike

No major dislikes.

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The Trade Desk Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 7 ratings and reviews for Programmatic Segment-Based Advertising market. View all 310 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.8

(7 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
86%
4 Star
14%
3 Star
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Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.9

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • Senior Programmatic Specialist
    1B-10B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Platform Offers hugely diverse inventory with great retargeting potential.

    5.0
    Sep 30, 2025
    Overall, the product is really useful to use. It allows us to access many different types of inventory from all over the globe including Display, Video, OLV, Audio, CTV & DOOH!
  • Senior Programmatic Analyst
    <50M USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Interface Offers Simplicity and Flexible Reporting for Diverse Data Requirements

    5.0
    Sep 23, 2025
    The Trade Desk is a DSP that is very easy to use and very straight forward. The team behind the Trade Desk also is quick to answer questions or provide walkthroughs when additional help is needed.
  • Director of Analytics
    50M-1B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Conversion Lift Feature Offers Simple Campaign Incrementality Measurement for Clients

    4.0
    Sep 15, 2025
    Always a pleasure working with the TTD folks. They're always committed to partnering on solutions.
  • Regional Director, Media Buying
    50M-1B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Trade Desk's Array of Targeting Tools and Data Provisioning

    5.0
    Oct 17, 2024
    The Trade Desk has a vast array of targeting tools, including an extensive data library. We primarily rely on the TTD-sourced data and have been happy with the results. TTD also enables our direct relationship with data providers by allowing us to provision 3p or 1p data into the platform.
  • REGIONAL MANAGER, MEDIA BUYING
    50M-1B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    A Comprehensive Peek into the Buyer-Focused TTD Platform

    5.0
    Oct 13, 2024
    ttd is a true partner to the agency. in my 30+ years of experience Ive never felt so secure with a vendor.
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