What Is The Secondary Premium Display Market?

The ThinkEquity report on non-premium display earlier several months ago discussed, at length, the opportunity for publisher in the secondary premium market. Secondary premium has similar features to premium. It is sold with similar guarantees such as placement and performance, but is not handled directly by publisher's sales team.

Content providers will always sell premium advertising like site take-overs and bespoke branding opportunities, but the report indicates how important it is to have a strategy for this new emerging market.

The secondary premium market is said to be worth about fifteen billion dollars globally. So who is helping publishers monetise inventory in the European secondary premium market? Most of the top-tier ad exchanges and yield optimisers are offering platforms to increase revenues from this multi-billion dollar area.

The chart below borrows heavily from the ThinkEquity report, but has been given a makeover for the EMEA market. It illustrates where present vendors (excluding ad networks) are positioning themselves in this growing part of the display market:

Ciaran O'Kane

Ciaran O’Kane is the Founder and Advisor to 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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