The complete Ad yield management resource center

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E-Course: Ad Yield Management

Ad yield management is, simply stated, the process of making small optimizations to your ad monetization setup in order to maximize revenue.

Now, in practice, this is anything but simple and “ad yield management” doesn’t fit neatly in a box. The practice crosses different tools in the ad tech stack, and potentially different teams in your organization.

So, to help you navigate all there is to know about building and managing an ad yield operations strategy (and there is A LOT), click below to watch our extensive Ad Yield Management course!

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A Breakdown of
Yield Ops Duties

1. Header Bidder Optimizations

A yield ops team will be responsible for managing the myriad settings that exist on each header bidding partner integrated into your header bidding auction.

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2. Price Floor Strategy

One of the most common settings yield ops teams will change or manage are individual price floors, or custom price floor rules on the header bidding auction.

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3. Ad Layout Optimization

How your ads are placed, the number of units on page, how visible they are, and how frequently they refresh all have a huge impact on your ad revenue.

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4. Ad Quality and Blocking

Yield teams are often involved in managing ad quality is because the settings for blocking are managed at the individual demand partner level.

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5. Supply Path Optimization

Sophisticated yield teams may also have responsibilities to manage optimizations across the entire ad supply chain, reaching back even to DSP settings.

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6. Testing and Monitoring

Yield operations professionals typically manage their workflow in a testing cycle, making small modifications and monitoring results over time.

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Strategic

PRICE FLOOR STRATEGY

Learn how to build a comprehensive price floor strategy.

  • Stop using single rules, and think in terms of a unified strategy
  • Download powerful templates to build and manage your strategy

Guide + Templates

Tactical

GAM UNIFIED PRICING RULES

Learn how to create custom unified pricing rules in Google Ad Manager.

  • Step-by-step guidance with helpful screenshots
  • Details on targeting criteria for custom rules

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Optimization

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Ad Unit Basics

Start by getting to know the different kinds of available ad units, and how each perform.

Ad Units

 

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Best Practices

Tour these actionable best practices for optimizing your ad layout for maximum yield.

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Avoid Ad Clutter

Getting your ad density right is an incredibly important factor in your revenue earning ability.

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Confirmed Click

Learn more about Google confirmed click violations and how to avoid them.

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High Performers

Learn about high performing ad units:

Sticky Ad Units     Takeovers

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Strategic

BLOCKING STRATEGY

Learn how to build a blocking strategy that fits your brand.

  • Guidance for choosing category and URL blocks
  • How to manage blocking over time

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Tactical

DIRECTIONS IN GAM + APS

Learn how to create category and URL blocks in Google Ad Manager and Amazon Publisher Services.

  • Step-by-step guidance with helpful screenshots

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Amazon Publisher Services

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We immediately doubled our daily ad revenue when we switched to Playwire.
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CEO

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Case Study

2x

Doubled ad revenue after switching to Playwire.

7x

Direct sales drive 7x higher CPMs than indirect.

12x

Video units drive 12x higher CPMs than display.

21x

Flex leaderboard drives 21x higher CPMs than display.

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The Ad Tech Supply Chain

INTRODUCTORY

Learn more about the ad tech supply chain, and why managing supply paths can be so complex.

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Yield Supply Optimization

INTERMEDIATE

Dig into this article to learn more about all of yield ops' responsibilities including supply path optimization.

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Ads.txt management

ADVANCED

Your Ads.txt file is often used to control many of the small details of supply path optimization. Learn how to maximize the power of this file with these resources.

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Yield Testing

All the resources you need to manage your yield testing and experimentation strategy.

Best Practices

Yield Test Manager Template

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Yield Monitoring

Follow these processes to continuously monitor the performance of your site and catch revenue drops fast.

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Playwire's Yield Team

How does our yield team support publishers?

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