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Index Exchange

Index Exchange

Founded by Andrew Casale in 2011

Sell digital advertising space and reach audiences across websites and streaming channels

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You can use Index Exchange to connect digital publishers and media owners with advertisers seeking ad space. The exchange processes auctions in real time across websites, mobile apps, and streaming television. You can manage programmatic deals, set inventory pricing rules, and curate audience segments for buyers. Media companies can run sell-side auctions directly, while brands access verified inventory across diverse channels. It also provides compute infrastructure to execute ad decisioning closer to impressions, ensuring transparency and consistent auction performance.

What Index Exchange does

Set floor prices for digital ad impressionsConfigure programmatic private marketplace dealsMonitor auction fill rates and revenue reportsPackage custom audiences for media buyersConnect streaming video feeds to programmatic demandReview ad quality and creative compliance across inventoryReal-time bidding across display, video, and connected televisionIndex Cloud compute environment for low-latency ad decisioningProgrammatic inventory curation through Index MarketplacesSupport for agentic real-time advertising frameworksDuration-based ad measurement for streaming TV publishersNeutral exchange infrastructure for supply-side transparency

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