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The Trade Desk Overview

What is The Trade Desk?

The Trade Desk's self-service, cloud-based platform enables ad buyers to create, manage, optimize and measure advertising campaigns across ad formats and devices. Integrations with hundreds of global data, inventory, and publisher partners ensure maximum reach and decisioning capabilities, and enterprise APIs enable custom development on top of the platform. The Trade Desk's powerful technology offers advertisers unparalleled audience scale and reach, evaluating more than 13 million impressions and quadrillions of permutations across the open internet every single second. The platform's goals-based buying allows advertisers to set multiple KPIs, with transparency into performance and the ability to optimize campaigns in-flight. Advertisers on the platform can also leverage a robust data marketplace to inform and measure their ad campaigns against online and offline business results. Recognized for its innovation and agility, The Trade Desk is a leader in Connected TV and Retail Media, as well as emerging programmatic channels like audio, digital-out-of-home, and gaming. To help marketers understand the rapidly evolving and complex world of data-driven advertising, The Trade Desk also offers Edge Academy certification courses. Founded in 2009 in Ventura, California, The Trade Desk (Nasdaq: TTD) has more than 3,000 employees in dozens of offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Clients include the biggest brands and largest advertising agencies in the world. The company's client retention rate has been above 95% for the past nine years, due to outstanding client service and superior technology.

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German, English, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
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Product Description

The Trade Desk empowers buyers at the campaign level with the most expressive bid capabilities in market, full-funnel attribution, and detailed reporting that illustrates the consumer journey from initial impression to conversion.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

The Trade Desk is uniquely positioned as the only DSP that offers global scale across an omnichannel landscape and transparency and openness to allow advertisers to completely own their data, including the measurement of success using the advertiser's source of truth. This is especially important for the activation and understanding of advertiser's owned first-party data, where audiences can be reached at scale and measured for effectiveness.

We are buy-side only. We believe that by aligning our business only with buyers, we are able to avoid inherent conflicts of interest that exist when serving both the buy-side and sell-side. This is why we do not own any advertising inventory. We provide our clients with a marketplace of inventory and data partners allowing you to spend your budgets based on performance.


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Company Website
Year Founded
2009
HQ Location
Ventura, CA
Twitter
@TheTradeDesk
19,691 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
4,047 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ: TTD
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$836
Description

A media buying platform built for what matters.Trusted journalism. Premium streaming TV. One-click commerce. All these amazing online experiences thrive on an open internet. And they’re all fueled by relevant advertising.That’s why we created an independent media buying platform designed for the open internet. One that helps marketers reach more customers in more places, with more transparency and choice at every stage — from planning to pricing to performance.At its best, the internet is an open marketplace of ideas, content, and commerce. And we intend on keeping it that way. Because the open internet matters.


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Amazing customer service, with unmatching partnership and integration with different tech vendors and publishers. Easy to implement and execute cam...
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It helps in advanced targeting and provides real time insights.
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The Trade Desk Demo - Goals-based buying
Set your campaign objective (awareness, consideration, conversion) for better optimization and to measure ROI against actual business goals
The Trade Desk Demo - Solimar combines sophistication and simplicity
Effectively manage omnichannel campaigns with Solimar's patented user interface
The Trade Desk Demo - Data onboarding
Easily organize and onboard your first-party data
The Trade Desk Demo - Reporting & Measurement
Transparent reporting and insights to measure your ad campaigns' impact against business goals
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Nicole M.
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Director of Paid Media
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about The Trade Desk?

What I like best about The Trade Desk is its innovative approach to programmatic advertising, empowering advertisers with cutting-edge tools and data-driven insights to achieve impactful results. Its emphasis on transparency, collaboration, and customer success sets it apart in the industry. It is a huge learning curve but the implementation has been seamless with the help of our customer account team. Our team is in the platform everyday. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about The Trade Desk?

I do wish their list upload capabilities were better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is The Trade Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has allowed us to reach out audience outside of social media. We have been able to expand our approach and really reach all new sets of people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JE
Senior Marketing Manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about The Trade Desk?

The Trade Desk is known for its straightforward platform, which makes managing and optimizing campaigns relatively efficient and easy to navigate. While there are aspects that could be more streamlined or intuitive, the tools generally provide what you need to get the job done. Their support team is usually responsive and helpful when challenges arise, though it would be great to see more proactive resources to address common issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about The Trade Desk?

What I find challenging about The Trade Desk is that reports can be slow to load, which makes it harder to quickly analyze campaign performance when I need insights fast. The pricing also feels a bit steep, especially for smaller teams or companies with tighter budgets. On top of that, I’d appreciate more transparency around margins and fees to better understand the full cost structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is The Trade Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Trade Desk helps simplify the complexity of running campaigns across multiple channels by giving me one platform to manage everything. It also makes it easier to reach a wider audience and provides solid data insights, so I can make better decisions and optimize performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Programmatic Associate
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about The Trade Desk?

The Trade Desk provides real-time campaign performance monitoring, enabling prompt bid adjustments at the ad group level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about The Trade Desk?

When I need to generate a report, the process can be quite time-consuming, often taking between 7 to 10 minutes. I would like to have the ability to generate reports promptly, without any significant delay. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is The Trade Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Trade Desk solves inefficiencies in digital advertising by providing a unified platform that consolidates multiple ad exchanges, data sources, and media channels. This allows advertisers to manage, optimize, and scale their campaigns more effectively, reducing wasted ad spend and improving targeting. As a result, advertisers can reach the right audience with greater precision, and consumers see more relevant ads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about The Trade Desk?

The Trade Desk is simple to use and it gets complex when it comes into the greater tasks. I have contacted their customer support a couple of times and is fast, reliable and they have provided me with good answers. Trade Desks offers a lot of different fetures like you can do advance targeting on your ads, do real time reppporting that helps a lot when presenting results to clients. Implementing new campaigns from scratch can be a little bit challenging but it gets easier with the time. I do use Trade Desk at least once per week and it gets the result that the clients wants. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about The Trade Desk?

There are no things that I dislike about Trade Desk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is The Trade Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Trade Desk is solving the challenge of managing and optimizing digital advertising campaigns across multiple channels in one place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David K.
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Director- Performance Advertising
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about The Trade Desk?

So many options to choose from to run a campaign. Easy to set up and start running, however, ask lots of questions to utilize all the options available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about The Trade Desk?

You should be able to look at reporting from yesterday instead of waiting for the report to be pulled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is The Trade Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Trying to reach the right audience at the right time with the right message in order to drive sales. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about The Trade Desk?

The one on one support. If we ever have questions or concerns the TTD team is there to answer or help out. Set up is pretty easy and navigation is as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about The Trade Desk?

TTD could use some features that would make making multiple changes a bit easier. Such as editing different audiences in different ad groups at the same time, rather than being only to place one audience to the ad groups selected. Same for creative or any bulk edit. Having the ability to make changes in multiple ad groups within the same page would be ideal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is The Trade Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

They're making changes that allow the user to have better control and a more holistic view of their campaigns. Not completely there, but it's making things a bit easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about The Trade Desk?

Amazing customer service, with unmatching partnership and integration with different tech vendors and publishers. Easy to implement and execute campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about The Trade Desk?

TTD doesn't have its own products, unlike DV360 who has YouTube that is exclusive to DV360. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is The Trade Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Holistic frequency management, ability to drive incremental reach and measurement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about The Trade Desk?

The platform itself is advanced and reliable. It provides users with actionable insights at their fingertips. The tools in the platform can benefit any trader, regardless of experience level. The support team is knowledgeable, responsive, and genuinely invested in our success. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about The Trade Desk?

The Knowledge Portal contains a ton of great conceptual information. I wish it also included more detailed step-by-step guides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is The Trade Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Trade Desk has many tools to help drive campaign success. These tools include machine learning optimizations by Koa, as well as recommended user optimizations. The platform makes it easy to understand the impact of bid levels, audience targeting, and other campaign parameters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nikita K.
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Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about The Trade Desk?

For Targeting and retargeting options available in TTD for Programmatic buying. We have utilized a lot of retargeting options on TTD along with Koa Optimizations like Audience Predictor and Booster and exclusions for our existing client along with click retargeting and pixel (both universal and static pixel) . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about The Trade Desk?

Reporting timelines limitation not going beyond 90 days Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is The Trade Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have been able to explore audiences on TTD that were our limitation on Google platform and havebeen able to utilize retargeting strategies well on TTD when compared to Google DSP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EF
Regional Director, Media Buying
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about The Trade Desk?

Partnership, training, availability of extra features, forward thinking vision Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about The Trade Desk?

I wish there were options for a dynamic inventory feed without using a 3rd party Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is The Trade Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Trade Desk provides the most comprehensive and transparent vision of what our campaigns are doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.