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Ad Tech Software

Ad Tech

What is Ad Tech Software?

AdTech vendors allow organizations to serve relevant, targeted advertisements across a wide range of endpoints and channels. AdTech vendors include those in the Demand-Side Platform, Supply-Side Platform and Display Market Platform sub-categories.

Common Features

  • Audience Identification
  • Audience Segmentation
  • Advertisement Content Curation
  • Advertisement Placement
  • Advertisement Reporting
  • Role-Based Access Controls
  • MarTech Ecosystem integration
  • Demand-Side Capabilities
  • Supply-Side Capabilities
  • Data Management Platform Capabilities
  • Media Planning
  • Ad Serving
  • Walled Garden Placement
  • Traditional Media Placement
  • Dynamic Creative Optimization
  • Asset Classification
  • Video Rendering
  • Ad Verification
  • Financial Accounting

Top Ad Tech Software

2024 Data Quadrant Awards

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Products: 8
Next Award: Oct 2025

Top Ad Tech Software 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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Composite Score
8.6 /10
CX Score
8.9 /10

A complete platform to grow ad revenue and protect your brand wherever people are watching, playing or engaging. Ad Manager can help you manage your ad business and grow your revenue in any industry. Ad Manager offers robust tools that scale to the needs of growing businesses.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Helps Innovate
  • Enables Productivity
Badge Winner
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Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Ads Manager is your starting point for running ads on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger or Audience Network. It’s an all-in-one tool for creating ads, managing when and where they’ll run, and tracking how well your campaigns are performing towards your marketing goals. With the Ads Manager app for iOS and Android, you can keep an eye on your campaign while you’re on the go.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Security Protects
  • Helps Innovate
Badge Winner
Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

The Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP) activates on every online and offline marketing channel (including Email, Connected TV, SMS, Website, Social Media, and more) with sophisticated AI that analyzes billions of consumer data signals to predict consumer intent, personalize experiences, and accelerate growth for brands. The Zeta Marketing Platform combines 2.4 billion unique data identities with industry-leading AI to create personalized, omnichannel experiences that exceed expectations and drive superior marketing results.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Badge Winner
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Mediaocean LLC

Mediaocean

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

Mediaocean is the mission-critical platform for omnichannel advertising. Processing $150 billion in annual media spend, Mediaocean provides foundational software to connect brands, agencies, media, technology, and data. With AI and machine learning technology to control marketing investments and optimize business outcomes, Mediaocean enables end-to-end management of campaigns from planning, buying, and selling to analysis, invoices, and payments.

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Pros

  • Generous Negotitation
  • Respectful
  • Client's Interest First
  • Transparent
NextRoll

AdRoll

Composite Score
7.5 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

AdRoll offers a powerful marketing and advertising platform to grow your business quickly and intelligently while building relationships with customers. Email marketing, AI-driven product recommendations, and cross-channel measurement. Easily collect and act on your customer data from one unified platform. Convert more customers with the power of AdRoll across desktop, mobile, social, apps, and the web.

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Pros

  • Efficient Service
  • Respectful
  • Fair
  • Enables Productivity
Badge Winner
Composite Score
7.2 /10
CX Score
7.1 /10

Amazon DSP is a demand-side platform that allows you to programmatically buy ads to reach new and existing audiences on and off Amazon. Amazon DSP is available to both advertisers who sell products on Amazon and those who do not.

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Pros

  • Unique Features
  • Includes Product Enhancements
  • Appreciates Incumbent Status
  • Continually Improving Product

Cons

  • Less Efficient Service
  • Less Effective Service
Composite Score
7.2 /10
CX Score
7.1 /10

Adobe Advertising automates, coordinates, and scales paid media buying across digital channels with tools that seamlessly connect data and experiences. With in-platform and consultancy-based reporting options, measurement with Adobe Advertising gives you the flexibility to leverage your Adobe applications as part of a holistic framework.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Cons

  • Under Delivered
  • Vendor's Interest First
StackAdapt Inc

StackAdapt

Composite Score
6.7 /10
CX Score
7.1 /10

StackAdapt is a self-serve advertising platform that specializes in multi-channel solutions including native, display, video, connected TV and audio ads. StackAdapt's state-of-the-art platform is where some of the most progressive work in machine learning meets cutting-edge user experience. StackAdapt is designed around the three core pillars of programmatic—planning, executing and analyzing.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Fair

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Quantcast Corp

Quantcast Platform

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Quantcast is an advertising technology company and the creator of an innovative intelligent audience platform that empowers brands, agencies and publishers to know and grow their audiences online. The Quantcast Platform, powered by Ara, a patented AI and machine learning engine, delivers automated insights, marketing performance, and results at scale to drive business growth.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

SmartyAds DSP is a user-friendly self-serve demand side platform for running targeted, measurable, and engaging ads that turn your audiences into customers. With SmartyAds DSP, setting up an ad campaign gets easy — start in a matter of clicks. We simplified and optimized the flow to the core of our programmatic platform to let you spend less time on campaign launch and management.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing