The Trade Desk Aims to Build Partner Ecosystem
The Trade Desk is trying to set itself up as a platform at the center of a non-walled-garden adtech ecosystem, which is a tall order with potentially tall rewards. They climbed a couple of steps on Monday by adding integrations with purchase data from Albertsons, Walgreens, and others; new indices to measure TV audience quality and reach; and a partner portal to simplify integrations with other adtech products. They also added a bunch of AI-driven features to simplify programmatic media buying, but you’d expect that.