The Trade Desk Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Trade Desk is great at helping us scale our advertising especially targeting those in specific geo areas or interest groups. It's great to see so much in a big picture kind of way but then also drill down into so much display potential. It can be challenging to get a hang of especially knowing the cost to get a seat, not for the small advertiser!

Likelihood to Recommend

Programmatic advertising has its fits, especially when looking at audiences at scale and specific targeting. If that's what you're looking for, consider alternatives, but ultimately, The Trade Desk is the best option for a reason. I love its self-service ability, but the CTRs can sometimes be lower than what you can achieve in other platforms.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Trade Desk is our agency's preferred demand-side platform and data management platform to manage our clients' programmatic advertising campaigns. We use The Trade Desk (TTD) across our Client Services department. We have licensed TTD's platform since 2015. We use TTD to develop data-driven media plans for our clients - this includes developing an analysis of the best ways to target our clients' audience(s) and to forecast available impressions, CPM rates, and the optimal allocation of media budget across a variety of targeting tactics. Our Client Services department develops customer audiences in TTD's DMP. We then set up and manage campaigns and the underlying ad groups in a "full service" capacity for our clients. We use a third-party reporting dashboard that imports performance data from TTD to report on programmatic performance for our clients.

Likelihood to Recommend

After extensive research of DSP and DMP platforms in the market, our agency made the wise decision to license TTD's platform and develop a long-term partnership. TTD continues to innovate and offer cutting-edge media buying solutions, access to more audience data segments, and access to new and emerging media channels like CTV/OTT and digital-out-of-home. We couldn't be happier with TTD's technology and is one of the most advanced agency users of TTD is a key differentiator for our agency.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Trade Desk is a fantastic DSP that can be used to extend your reach on branding and performance campaigns worldwide. We have found them to have exclusive inventory and vast reach and that has allowed us to run user acquisition and retargeting campaigns to add to the DSP mix that we are already using.

Likelihood to Recommend

The Trade Desk works especially well for CTV campaigns in the US. Even though you can run mobile campaigns, their focus on the last few years has been on connected TV and that is why they have a lot of premium inventory. I would not recommend running desktop campaigns with them as it is not their primary focus.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Marketing dollars are extremely limited and The Trade Desk allows us the visibility and metrics to spend them wisely. We believe we have a good ROI here. They have been a good programmatic resource for our many campaigns. We leverage their technology and breadth of reach to penetrate our target markets. The Trade Desk has been useful and adaptable to a variety of metrics we like to monitor for each campaign. It appears to do well in digital marketing among the top paid search engines. Although we don't yet have experience in using it in secondary markets, we look forward to expanding its usage to meet the growing needs of our diverse company. Usage began in just our USA division, but we expect to begin rolling it out to other divisions and countries soon.

Likelihood to Recommend

We are a large company, but The Trade Desk seems like it would also work well for small companies. In our limited deployment, we focused on the USA market and Digital Marketing, but we see this platform working for global markets, multi-language, and across all paid search engines. They provide great user engagement and dashboard reporting to help us manage each campaign in real-time. The Trade Desk seems to do all of these things well and would work for most companies. I have yet to see a campaign and/or executive initiative that The Trade Desk can't handle. We have had a favorable experience and believe it has met every objective we have.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a Digital Marketing Agency serving Automotive Dealerships across the United States. We manage all of their digital marketing--paid search in Google, Bing, and Yahoo, Facebook, and of course Display Advertising. We used The Trade Desk to manage all the Display advertising for our clients. We were given an agency-level account and were able to manage all of our clients' accounts under it.

Likelihood to Recommend

As with all SaaS platforms, there is a steep learning curve, but if you take the time to really learn its functionality and processes, The Trade Desk can be a real life-saver when it comes to managing multiple client campaigns for Video, Display, and Native advertising across multiple display platforms.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Trade Desk is a great partner and we have worked together on a number of campaigns. They work as our programmatic arm and they are a great DSP that leverages their technology to achieve very good CPAs while taking advantage of their vast reach. We have never encountered any problems working with them.

Likelihood to Recommend

The Trade Desk is best suited for campaigns that are performance oriented. They are able to provide good CTRs and low CPAs. I would not use them for branding as those kinds of campaigns mostly need connected TV inventory as wells as videos and there are better alternatives in the market for that niche.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Trade Desk is a great programmatic partner. We have used them to run mobile and desktop campaigns. They helped us run campaigns on different GEOs across the globe. Their level of service is really good and they have a unique supply which helps us achieve our client goals, no matter if they are brand goals or performance targets.

Likelihood to Recommend

The Trade Desk works very hand in hand with agencies and they are suited for performance and branding as well. However, it is still hard to merge that data on an independent ad server and centralize it on an independent reporting hub to understand the full customer journey with search, programmatic, and social.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

TheTradeDesk is being used by one department to extend the reach of our campaigns. We buy media against our first party audience pixels to gather additional insights about our users and expand our mono-lingual network into a bilingual network.

TheTradeDesk allows us deliver our campaigns in full at scale often focusing on in-view targeting metrics.

Likelihood to Recommend

All programmatic buying of media online can be done in TheTradeDesk which is why we brought it in-house. The option to go into CTV and podcast environments is of future interest.

We are able to launch campaigns faster in other platforms (DataXu, in particular) so if time is critical we do not start here. From a creative approval to meaningful spend in Day 1, TheTradeDesk is outperformed by DataXu.