Last Updated: October, 2024
Kayzen is integrated with multiple Ad Exchanges, each of them adding value to our overall supply offering. Some of these ad exchange may be more known to you than other, so in order to ensure you don't miss on any opportunities, the following article will provide a brief introduction to each ad exchange currently integrated with Kayzen.
For each ad exchange, we will cover the following:
Website - Company's Website
In-App Inventory - Does the ad exchange provide access to in-app inventory?
MWeb Inventory - Does the ad exchange provide access to mobile web inventory
Ad formats - Which ad formats are accessible through the ad exchange?
Mediation Platform - Does the ad exchange have an associated Ad Mediation platform?
Ad Network - Does the ad exchange have an associated Ad Network?
Publisher Connection Type - How is the ad exchange connected to its publishers?
Resold inventory - Does the ad exchange provide resold inventory? (not necessarily 100%)
Deals - Does the Ad Exchange support Preferred Deals and/or PMPs?
If you want to dig deeper into more advanced differences between these ad exchanges, we recommend you to explore the following articles:
Summary
Ad Exchanges
Adjoe Exchange
As part of the Applike Group, Adjoe Exchange provides direct, fee-free access to games from their publishers Sunday Games and JustDice, such as Cat Escape or Cash Empire.
Website: https://adjoe.io/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: No
Ad formats: Banner, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: -
Ad Network: Adjoe
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - No
AdSolut Exchange
An Indian based supply side platform, AdSolut Exchange provides direct, efficient access to top mobile OTT apps in the APAC market.
Website: https://www.adsolut.in/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: No
Ad formats: Banner, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: -
Ad Network: -
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - Yes
Amazon Exchange
Amazon Publisher Services provides direct access to top app publishers, with a 10% supply side fee (industry average estimated at 20%), providing a very efficient supply path to many publishers.
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: Yes
Ad formats: Banner, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: -
Ad Network: -
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - No
AppLovin Exchange
With AppLovin MAX being the largest adopted mediation platform in the market today, AppLovin Exchange guarantees direct, SDK based access to all impression opportunities on most app publishers.
Website: https://www.applovin.com/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: No
Ad formats: Banner, Native, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: MAX
Ad Network: AppLovin Network
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - No
Awmani Exchange
Singapore based Awmani Exchange provides access to top mobile inventory globally.
Website: https://www.awmani.com/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: No
Ad formats: Banner, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: -
Ad Network: -
Publisher Connection Type: S2S
Resold inventory: Yes
Deals - No
BidMachine (Appodeal)
BidMachine, the programmatic ad exchange of Stack Appodeal, provides an in-app bidding solution for publishers, reflecting as direct SDK-based supply for advertisers.
Website: https://bidmachine.io/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: No
Ad formats: Banner, Native, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: Appodeal Mediation
Ad Network: -
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - No
BidSwitch
BidSwitch is not an ad exchange per se, but rather acts as an aggregator of ad exchanges. A platform designed to facilitate tapping into multiple ad exchanges without necessarily integrating directly with each of them, in exchange for an 8% supply side fee.
Kayzen leverages BidSwitch to integrate with multiple ad exchanges without needing to go through a direct integration, such as PubMatic, The Media Grid, Outbrain, Taboola or Triplelift. To learn more about the Ad Exchanges integrated through BidSwitch, check out the BidSwitch Exchanges section at the bottom of the articles.
Website: https://www.bidswitch.com/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: Yes
Ad formats: Banner, Native, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: -
Ad Network: -
Publisher Connection Type: -
Resold inventory: Yes (100%)
Deals - Yes
Chartboost Exchange
Acquired by Zynga, Chartboost exchange is gradually becoming the premium way to access Zynga's and eventually all of Take Two's supply, while als3o providing direct SDK access to premium gaming publishers.
Website: https://www.chartboost.com/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: No
Ad formats: Banner, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: Chartboost Mediation
Ad Network: Chartboost
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - Yes
Digital Turbine Exchange (Fyber)
Digital Turbine Exchange remains as one of the few SDK-based mobile platforms that is exclusively an Ad Exchange, i.e. not having an associated Ad Network, providing a higher level of neutrality than other players in the industry. Provides direct-SDK access to top multiple app publishers.
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: No
Ad formats: Banner, Native, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: DT Fairbid
Ad Network: -
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - No
Google Ad Exchange
The largest ad exchange in the programmatic space, Google Ad Exchange provides direct SDK access to inventory across multiple countries, formats and platforms.
Website: https://admob.google.com/home/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: Yes
Ad formats: Banner, Native, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: Google AdMob
Ad Network: -
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - Yes
InMobi Exchange
Indian based InMobi Exchange provides direct-SDK access to top publishers across the globe, with a particular strong footprint in the APAC region.
Website: https://www.inmobi.com/exchange
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: No
Ad formats: Banner, Native, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: -
Ad Network: InMobi
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - Yes
IronSource Exchange
In a similar manner to AppLovin, IronSource exchange guarantees full direct-SDK access to all impression opportunities for publishers leveraging Unity LevelPlay as their mediation platform.
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: No
Ad formats: Banner, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: Unity LevelPlay
Ad Network: IronSource
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - Yes
Magnite DV+ (Rubicon)
Previously known as Rubicon, Magnite DV+ is Magnite's programmatic exchange. Magnite provides ease of access to multiple ad exchanges and publishers, with a robust deal setup functionality.
Website: https://www.magnite.com/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: Yes
Ad formats: Banner, Native, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: -
Ad Network: -
Publisher Connection Type: S2S
Resold inventory: Yes
Deals - Yes
MobilityWare Exchange
MobilityWare is one of the top Core and Casual Games app publishers. Their propietary ad exchange provides full direct-SDK, fee-free access to all their games, such as Solitaire, Spider Solitaire and Freecel Solitaire.
Website: https://www.mobilityware.com/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: No
Ad formats: Banner, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: MobilityWare Mediation
Ad Network: -
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - No
Nimbus Exchange
Nimbus exchange is a unique exchange which sits outside of traditional mediation platforms, providing full SDK-based access to all impression opportunities on top publishers such as Rovio, Scopely and Big Fish Games, with supply side fees between 2%-5%, the most competitive in the market.
Website: https://www.adsbynimbus.com/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: No
Ad formats: Banner, Native, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: -
Ad Network: -
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - No
Outbrain Exchange
Outbrain Exchange provides unparalleled access to Native inventory on both mobile apps and sites, with direct integrations to top publishers in the News & Weather and Entertainment categories.
On top of Native, Outbrain supports ad formats usually found on feed based apps/sites, such as Pre-Roll video, Outstream Video and MREC display (300x250).
Website: https://www.outbrain.com/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: Yes
Ad formats: Native, Banner, Interstitial
Mediation Platform: -
Ad Network: Outbrain
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - Yes
Smaato Exchange
Combining both SDK-based and S2S-based connections to publishers, Smaato provides access to multiple app publishers, specially on formats such as Banner and Native.
Smaato is part of Verve Group.
Website: https://www.smaato.com/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: Yes
Ad formats: Banner, Native, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: -
Ad Network: -
Publisher Connection Type: SDK / S2S
Resold inventory: Yes
Deals - Yes
Unity Exchange
After Unity's acquisition of IronSource, Unity exchange also guarantees full direct-SDK access to all impression opportunities for publishers leveraging Unity LevelPlay as their mediation platform.
Also, as one of the top game development engines, Unity Exchange provides access to a long tail of games developed with the Unity Engine.
Website: https://unity.com/products/unity-ads
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: No
Ad formats: Banner, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: Unity LevelPlay
Ad Network: Unity Ads
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - No
Verve Group (PubNative)
Combining SDK-based and S2S-based direct connections to publishers, as well as resold inventory, Verve Group provides access to multiple app publishers.
Website: https://verve.com/dsps/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: Yes
Ad formats: Banner, Native, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: -
Ad Network: -
Publisher Connection Type: SDK / S2S
Resold inventory: Yes
Deals - No
Vungle Exchange
Vungle is Liftoff's programmatic exchange, providing direct-SDK access to multiple apps globally.
Website: https://liftoff.io/exchange/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: No
Ad formats: Banner, Interstitial, Rewarded
Mediation Platform: -
Ad Network: Liftoff Direct
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - No
Yandex Exchange
Yandex is a leading programmatic exchange in Europe, with a strong focus on the CIS region. Combining their O&O inventory with direct 3rd party app and web publishers, Yandex provide unparalleled access to users on the CIS region and worldwide.
Website:https://ads.yandex.com/dsp/
Mobile In-App Inventory: Yes
Mobile Web Inventory: Yes
Ad formats: Banner, Interstitial, Rewarded, Native
Mediation Platform: -
Ad Network: Yandex Ad Network
Publisher Connection Type: SDK
Resold inventory: No
Deals - No
BidSwitch Exchanges
The following are some of the ad exchanges available by targeting BidSwitch as an ad exchange in the Kayzen platform:
The Media Grid
Outbrain
Triplelift
Emodo
LoopMe
YieldMo
Index Exchange
+ 50 more!
While there are multiple Ad Exchanges integrated through BidSwitch, some of these have been split into separate exchanges within the Kayzen platform for more specific targeting:
PubMatic (BidSwitch)
Improve Digital (BidSwitch)
SmartAdServer (BidSwitch)
AdMixer (BidSwitch)
Taboola (BidSwitch)
MobFox (BidSwitch)