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Curation

Also: Curated marketplace

A sell-side service in which a curator (an SSP, a data company, or an agency) packages inventory from many publishers, applies data and quality filters, and offers it to buyers as a single deal ID. Curation moves targeting from the DSP to the supply side and has grown as buyers seek cookieless data and cleaner supply.

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