Prompt
What's the best demand-side platform for automated media buying across display, video, and connected TV?
Latest observation
There isn’t a single universally “best” DSP for everyone, but for automated media buying across display, video, and connected TV (CTV), the strongest all-around options are usually:
Top picks
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The Trade Desk
- Widely considered the best overall DSP for open internet, especially CTV and cross-channel buying.
- Strong targeting, transparent controls, broad supply access, and solid measurement.
- Best if you want a premium, independent platform with deep programmatic capabilities.
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Google Display & Video 360 (DV360)
- Best if you’re already heavily in the Google Marketing Platform / Google ecosystem.
- Strong for display, video, YouTube, and integrated workflows.
- Good enterprise option with excellent scale and reporting, though typically less open/flexible than The Trade Desk.
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Amazon DSP
- Best if your campaigns are tied to Amazon audience/data signals or retail/media performance.
- Growing strength in CTV and streaming inventory.
- Especially useful for brands that want to connect ad exposure to commerce outcomes.
Quick recommendation by use case
- Best overall for cross-channel + CTV: The Trade Desk
- Best for Google stack users: DV360
- Best for retail/media commerce-driven campaigns: Amazon DSP
What to look for when choosing
- CTV supply quality and transparency
- Audience/data partnerships
- Attribution and measurement
- Brand safety/fraud controls
- Ease of automation and optimization
- Support and managed service quality
- Minimum spend and fee structure
If you want, I can also give you a side-by-side comparison of The Trade Desk vs DV360 vs Amazon DSP based on your budget, region, and campaign goals.
Observation history
How did Obsurfable measure this prompt?
Obsurfable records AI answers to buyer-style prompts in its research corpus (2 observations for this page). Metrics are distributions over observations, not a single static ranking.
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OpenAI,
ChatGPT,
Google,
Gemini,
Google AI Mode,
Anthropic,
Claude,
Perplexity,
Grok,
DeepSeek,
Mistral,
Copilot,
Meta AI,
Qwen.
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