{"id":44456,"date":"2026-09-16T11:23:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/?p=44456"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:33:39","slug":"top-10-programmatic-advertising-platforms-for-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/top-10-programmatic-advertising-platforms-for-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Programmatic Advertising Platforms for Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"44456\" class=\"elementor elementor-44456\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6980b93 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6980b93\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-34c1b03a\" data-id=\"34c1b03a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6fee6ba3 MicroFont elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6fee6ba3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.22.0 - 24-06-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most agencies pick their programmatic advertising platforms the same way they picked their first one: whatever a sales rep pitched them three years ago. That&#8217;s a mistake. I&#8217;ve audited agency stacks where the team was paying for four DSPs and actively using one and a half.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here&#8217;s the number that should bother you: programmatic already accounts for more than 90% of US digital display ad spend, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/topics\/category\/programmatic\/5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eMarketer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and mobile now pulls in over 70% of that spend, up from under 40% a decade ago. The category isn&#8217;t niche anymore. It&#8217;s the default. Which means picking the wrong platform isn&#8217;t a small inefficiency, it&#8217;s a structural drag on every campaign you run through it.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is also a textbook case of the paradox of choice. Psychologist Barry Schwartz showed that more options don&#8217;t lead to better decisions, they lead to decision paralysis and worse outcomes, because every extra platform is another login, another billing relationship, another approval process standing between your team and launching a campaign. Agencies don&#8217;t need more programmatic advertising platforms to compare. They need a shorter, sharper list and a clear reason each one made the cut.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So here are the 10 platforms worth your evaluation time in 2026, starting with the one most &#8220;top DSP&#8221; lists skip entirely because it isn&#8217;t a DSP &#8211; it&#8217;s the layer that gets you into all of them faster.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3427535 elementor-widget elementor-widget-table-of-contents\" data-id=\"3427535\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;headings_by_tags&quot;:[&quot;h2&quot;],&quot;exclude_headings_by_selector&quot;:[],&quot;marker_view&quot;:&quot;bullets&quot;,&quot;icon&quot;:{&quot;value&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;library&quot;:&quot;&quot;},&quot;min_height&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:0,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;hierarchical_view&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;min_height_tablet&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;min_height_mobile&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]}}\" data-widget_type=\"table-of-contents.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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Media Blast<\/span><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every other entry on this list is a single DSP. <\/span>Media Blast is the layer that sits above them.<\/p><p>Here&#8217;s the problem it solves: getting approved on DV360, Criteo, RTB House, or Yandex as an agency isn&#8217;t instant. Account setup, credit checks, and MCC approvals can take days or weeks per platform, per client. If you&#8217;re running campaigns for 15 clients across four platforms, that&#8217;s dozens of separate relationships to manage, bill, and keep in good standing.<\/p><p>Media Blast gives agencies fast-approval access to Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, TikTok Ads, Criteo, RTB House, DV360, and Yandex through one dashboard, with consolidated billing so your finance team isn&#8217;t reconciling seven invoices for one client&#8217;s campaign. Budget can be reallocated across accounts in the time it takes to notice one channel is outperforming another, and Adcore backs unspent budget with a 100% money-back guarantee.<\/p><p>For agencies scaling across programmatic ad platforms, that&#8217;s the actual bottleneck, not campaign strategy, account access and stability. Adcore holds Premier Google Partner and Elite Microsoft Partner status, and its support team works around the clock, which matters most in the exact moment an account gets flagged and a client&#8217;s spend is on the line.<\/p><p>If you&#8217;re comparing DSPs, compare Media Blast against the friction of managing each one separately. You can see the full breakdown on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/technologies\/media-blast\/?ref=blog\">Media Blast page<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9bedd67 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"9bedd67\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.22.0 - 24-06-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https-www.adcore.com-technologies-media-blast-.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-44448\" alt=\"media blast screenshot\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https-www.adcore.com-technologies-media-blast-.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https-www.adcore.com-technologies-media-blast--300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https-www.adcore.com-technologies-media-blast--768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9557f98 MicroFont elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9557f98\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. Google Display &amp; Video 360 (DV360) and The Trade Desk<\/span><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These two get evaluated first because they&#8217;re the platforms your competitors are already running.<\/span><\/p><p><b>DV360<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> evolved out of DoubleClick Bid Manager and remains the default choice for teams already living inside Google&#8217;s ecosystem. It buys display, video, native, and mobile inventory, and integrates natively with Google Analytics and Campaign Manager, which matters if your reporting stack is already Google-first. The tradeoff is a steep learning curve and pricing that scales fast once you&#8217;re running real budgets across multiple advertisers.<\/span><\/p><p><b>The Trade Desk<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> takes the opposite pitch: an independent, self-service DSP built around deep first-party and third-party data analysis for targeting across the full customer journey, not just Google&#8217;s inventory. Agencies choose it specifically to avoid over-relying on one walled garden, and its identity resolution tools have become a reference point for the industry post-cookie.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both are strong, both are crowded with agencies who got there first. If you&#8217;re already running either, the question isn&#8217;t whether to switch, it&#8217;s whether you&#8217;re using <\/span><b>Media Blast&#8217;s multi-account access<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to also run Criteo or RTB House in parallel without adding a full second stack of logins and billing relationships.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-51e918a elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"51e918a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dv360-screenshot-1024x576.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-44460\" alt=\"dv360 screenshot\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dv360-screenshot-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dv360-screenshot-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dv360-screenshot-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dv360-screenshot.png 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5848745 MicroFont elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5848745\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. Criteo and RTB House: The Retargeting and AI-Driven DSPs<\/span><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If DV360 and The Trade Desk are the generalists, <\/span><b>Criteo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>RTB House<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are the specialists agencies bring in for one job: recovering shoppers who didn&#8217;t convert the first time.<\/span><\/p><p><b>Criteo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> built its reputation on dynamic retargeting powered by one of the largest commerce datasets in the industry, its Commerce Media Platform draws on shopper behavior across a huge network of retail and ecommerce partners, which makes it particularly strong for ecommerce clients with real product catalogs to push back in front of abandoners.<\/span><\/p><p><b>RTB House<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> takes a narrower but deeper approach, running proprietary deep-learning algorithms per-campaign rather than a shared model across all advertisers, which tends to outperform generic retargeting once a campaign has enough data to train on.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both platforms typically require an agency credit line or MCC-style approval to access directly, which is exactly the friction <\/span><b>Media Blast removes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by giving agencies fast-approval access to both without opening a separate billing relationship for each client running retargeting alongside their core programmatic ad platforms.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-161999c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"161999c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rtbhouse-screenshot-1024x576.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-44461\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rtbhouse-screenshot-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rtbhouse-screenshot-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rtbhouse-screenshot-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rtbhouse-screenshot.png 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d67f664 MicroFont elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d67f664\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4. Amazon DSP, Adobe Advertising Cloud, and Xandr<\/span><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These three earn their spot because each one owns a data advantage no one else can fully replicate.<\/span><\/p><p><b>Amazon DSP<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> leverages actual shopper purchase data, not modeled intent, for targeting and retargeting across display, video, and CTV. For any client selling physical products, that first-party purchase signal is hard to match elsewhere.<\/span><\/p><p><b>Adobe Advertising Cloud<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> pitches itself as the enterprise omnichannel play, bundling marketing automation, A\/B testing, and its Media Optimizer forecasting tool into one system. It&#8217;s a strong fit for agencies already running clients through the Adobe Experience Cloud stack, less so as a standalone pickup.<\/span><\/p><p><b>Xandr<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, now under the Microsoft Advertising umbrella, gives agencies a scalable path to align ads with targeted audiences across a large publisher network, and benefits from Microsoft&#8217;s push to integrate AI-driven optimization across its ad stack.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">None of these three replace each other, and none of them replace the account-access problem. Whichever combination your clients need, that&#8217;s still a separate approval and billing thread per platform unless it&#8217;s routed through a layer like Media Blast.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-890bd7e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"890bd7e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/amazon-dsp-screenshot-1024x576.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-44462\" alt=\"amazon dsp screenshot\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/amazon-dsp-screenshot-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/amazon-dsp-screenshot-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/amazon-dsp-screenshot-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/amazon-dsp-screenshot.png 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23d0f31 MicroFont elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"23d0f31\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5. PubMatic, Yahoo DSP, and How to Actually Choose<\/span><\/h2><p><b>PubMatic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is technically supply-side infrastructure, but its media buyer console gives advertisers a direct route to publisher inventory across OTT, CTV, and native formats, useful when you want fewer intermediaries between your bid and the impression.<\/span><\/p><p><b>Yahoo DSP<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rounds out the list as a lower-cost entry point into programmatic video and native inventory, often used by agencies running smaller client budgets who still want CTV reach without Amazon or DV360 pricing.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here&#8217;s the actual decision framework, stripped of the sales pitch: pick your core one or two DSPs based on where your clients&#8217; audiences already are, then solve account access separately. Don&#8217;t let platform-by-platform approval timelines dictate which programmatic advertising platforms you&#8217;re &#8220;allowed&#8221; to test this quarter.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s the practical case for running <\/span><b>Media Blast<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> underneath whichever DSPs you choose. It&#8217;s not a competitor to this list, it&#8217;s the thing that makes testing three of them instead of one actually feasible for an agency&#8217;s operations team. Learn more on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/technologies\/media-blast\/?ref=blog\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Media Blast page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and for a deeper primer on how programmatic buying works end to end, see Adcore&#8217;s guide to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/programmatic-advertising-everything-you-need-to-know\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">everything you need to know about programmatic advertising<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a4f7e55 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a4f7e55\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/yahoo-dsp-screenshot-1024x576.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-44463\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/yahoo-dsp-screenshot-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/yahoo-dsp-screenshot-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/yahoo-dsp-screenshot-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/yahoo-dsp-screenshot.png 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9ad711b MicroFont elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9ad711b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Getting Started<\/span><\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Choosing the right programmatic advertising platforms is only the first step. You still need to get approved, set up billing, establish credit, and connect each client account before you can actually start buying media.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">There are two ways to do it.<\/p><h3>Option 1: Open Each Platform Separately<\/h3><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">You can approach each platform directly and open your own agency accounts. That gives you a direct relationship with every provider, but it also means handling the process yourself:<\/p><ul data-spread=\"false\"><li>Separate applications and approval processes<\/li><li>Credit checks and billing arrangements<\/li><li>Individual negotiations with each platform<\/li><li>Separate account structures and access requirements<\/li><li>Ongoing communication with multiple platform teams<\/li><li>Different billing and payment processes for each platform<\/li><\/ul><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">For agencies working across several programmatic ad platforms, that can quickly turn into a lot of back and forth before a campaign even goes live.<\/p><h3>Option 2: Use the Adcore Channel Partner Program<\/h3><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The alternative is to go through <strong>Adcore&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/channel-partners\/?ref=blog\">Channel Partner Program<\/a><\/strong> and let Adcore handle the platform relationships and account setup for you.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Instead of negotiating with every advertising platform separately, agencies can access multiple channels through one partner relationship, while also getting the benefits that come with Adcore&#8217;s existing platform partnerships.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Depending on the channels and account requirements, benefits can include:<\/p><ul data-spread=\"false\"><li><strong>Faster access to advertising platforms<\/strong> without starting every relationship from scratch<\/li><li><strong>One partner relationship<\/strong> instead of managing multiple platform onboarding processes<\/li><li><strong>Support with account setup and approvals<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Competitive commercial terms and partner benefits<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Access to Adcore&#8217;s established relationships with major advertising platforms<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Ongoing support<\/strong> as your media activity scales<\/li><\/ul><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">For affiliates or agencies that want to test or expand into multiple programmatic advertising platforms, the difference is simple: you can spend your time managing campaigns and clients instead of chasing approvals, negotiating terms, and managing platform relationships.<\/p><p><strong>Want to get started?<\/strong> You can either build each platform relationship yourself, or work with Adcore through the Channel Partner Program and let us handle the heavy lifting.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d8740b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6d8740b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/adcore-partner-program-screenshot-1024x1024.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-44428\" alt=\"adcore partner program screenshot\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/adcore-partner-program-screenshot-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/adcore-partner-program-screenshot-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/adcore-partner-program-screenshot-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/adcore-partner-program-screenshot-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.adcore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/adcore-partner-program-screenshot.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-94770f6 MicroFont elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"94770f6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summary<br \/><\/span><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The platforms on this list aren&#8217;t interchangeable, and you shouldn&#8217;t run all ten. Pick the one or two programmatic advertising platforms that match where your clients&#8217; audiences actually are, DV360 or The Trade Desk for reach, Criteo or RTB House for retargeting, Amazon DSP if commerce data matters more than anything else.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What should be consistent no matter which you pick is how fast you can get approved, billed, and live. 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