Ad Yield Ops 102: Building Your Blocking Strategy Why is it Important?

Learn why building your blocking strategy is an important part of ad revenue generation.

 

 

Lesson Overview + Resources:

In this lesson, we'll dive into why building a blocking strategy is such an important part of your ad yield management. Some of the things we will discuss include:

  • The desired goals and outcomes when building a blocking strategy
  • The benefits of as well as the drawbacks you may experience when building a blocking strategy

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Read the Transcript:

Let’s start by defining why your blocking strategy is an important part of ad revenue generation.

As we mentioned earlier, in the introduction to ad yield management, blocking (sometimes referred to as protections or ad quality) commonly falls to the yield team because it is managed on a per-demand source basis.

There are settings to manage the type of ads that you allow to show up on your website in Google Ad Manager, Amazon Publisher Services, and all SSPs. Usually you’ll control these settings in Google Ad Manager or Amazon Publisher Services and let the SSPs inherit the settings.

Generally you are blocking specific ads to protect your brand and user experience. Another reason why the yield team might have a strong interest in these settings is because blocking specific ads or entire categories of ads can have a pretty influential effect on revenue.

The more ads you block, the less you have competing, and the lower your revenue could end up.

Building the right blocking strategy is all about finding the perfect balance between brand safety, ad quality and revenue.