Placement Exclusion
A control used to stop ads from appearing on specific apps, websites, channels, or content categories that are irrelevant, unsafe, or low quality.
How Placement Exclusion works in practice
Placement exclusions are a quality control tool, not just a brand-safety checkbox. Low-quality apps, made-for-advertising sites, or irrelevant channels can burn budget while technically delivering impressions or clicks. Excluding them helps protect performance, improves reporting clarity, and reduces reputational risk. In programmatic and broad video inventory especially, exclusion maintenance is one of the core disciplines that separates efficient campaigns from noisy ones.
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Automated buying and selling of digital advertising inventory through real-time bidding platforms. Programmatic enables precise audience-level targeting across thousands of publisher sites simultaneously, replacing manual direct insertion orders. Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs) such as DV360, The Trade Desk, and Amazon DSP are the primary execution tools.
Paid advertising on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and the Meta Audience Network. Meta Ads leverage detailed demographic, interest, and behavioural data to reach and retarget audiences at scale.
Defining who sees your ads based on demographics, interests, behaviours, in-market signals, or custom data. Precise audience targeting reduces CAC and improves conversion rates by matching ads to high-intent prospects.
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