New content on offer from industry leaders, including Goodway Group, Horizon Media, Index Exchange and Spotify
The Trade Desk, a global technology platform for buyers of advertising, today announced the expansion of the Trading Academy – its online learning programme that teaches the theories and strategies of programmatic advertising – to empower advertisers with the expertise to make informed decisions about their campaigns.
The Trading Academy now features eight free educational videos, new videos on hot-button programmatic topics, and additional ways to become certified in programmatic, including qualifying re-certification credits for the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) Certification programmes. Today’s additions will help extend education to even more advertising professionals, allowing agencies to better serve their clients and giving marketers tools to better navigate the programmatic space – helping them to reach their target audience as accurately and cost efficiently as possible.
“Programmatic advertising moves at such a fast pace and thus requires constant upskilling to ensure we are well equipped to provide sound advice to clients,” said Joshua Lee, Head of Operations and Analytics, Asia Pacific at Amnet Group. “We enroll our employees in established training programmes such as The Trade Desk’s Trading Academy to ensure they attain the necessary certification and in-depth understanding about the ever-evolving strategies and technologies needed to succeed in digital advertising.”
The enhanced platform features four distinct curriculums that use video and digital quizzes to educate its students, allowing each user to learn at their own speed and on their own timeline. Users must pass two of four certification exams on programmatic principles, targeting and data management, optimization and strategy and omnichannel and inventory types, to become certified.
Educational learning videos include topics such as:
● Header Bidding with The Trade Desk CEO, Jeff Green
● Media Quality in RTB with Harmon Lyons, SVP Business Development and Platform Solutions, and Dave Marquard, VP Product Management, from Integral Ad Science
● Fragmentation of TV with The Trade Desk CCO, Brian Stempeck
● Optimising the Efficient Frontier of Branding Campaigns with Adam Heimlich, SVP Programmatic HX, Horizon Media
● Trading Desks, Building a Programmatic Centre of Excellence with Jay Friedman, COO Goodway Group
● Programmatic Audio, Turning up the Volume with Les Hollander, Global Head of Audio Monetization, Spotify
● Programmatic Email and Identity with Nick Dujnic, Senior Director of Marketing LiveIntent
● Header Bidding with Andrew Casale, President and CEO Index Exchange
● The Native Ad Ecosystem, why native won and where it’s heading and Headlines, Not Titles, the science of making an impression with native ads with Dan Greenberg, Founder and CEO Sharethrough
“As ad budgets and audiences shift toward digital, it’s our goal to make the complex and changing world of advertising more understandable and accessible for everyone,” said Meredith Hall, General Manager of Learning and Development at The Trade Desk. “We’re continuing to create new offerings for the Trading Academy to help marketing professionals stay ahead and fully understand the potential of programmatic advertising.”
With the UK’s digital ad spend growing at its fastest rate in nine years – according to the IAB and PwC’s latest Digital Adspend Report – programmatic is the cost of entry to have a stake in the digital marketing world. The Trade Desk developed the Trading Academy in 2013 to address the growing need for knowledge surrounding programmatic buying.