The open auction: every buyer, every impression, every millisecond.
Open real-time bidding is the engine under everything else: all buyers, all formats, all geographies, decided in under 120 milliseconds. It is the baseline every deal type is measured against.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Pricing | First-price auction, market clearing |
| Volume | All eligible impressions |
| Access | Every vetted buyer |
| Priority | The foundation layer |
| Paperwork | None |
| Deal type | Pricing | Volume | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct | Negotiated, fixed or floor+premium | Agreed between publisher and advertiser | Sits above open auction |
| Preferred | Fixed CPM, pre-negotiated | None guaranteed, take-it-or-leave-it | Above open, below guaranteed |
| PG | Fixed CPM | Committed both ways | Highest of the programmatic lines |
| PMP | Auction among invited buyers, floor set by you | Whatever the auction clears | Above open auction |
| RTB ← | First-price auction, market clearing | All eligible impressions | The foundation layer |
On WireAds, yes: every site is vetted before entry and re-scanned on a schedule.
They trade openness for certainty: guaranteed access or reserved volume commands a premium.
Our partnerships team brokers and operates deal lines for publishers across the network. Terms in days, settled Net 30.