API and log-level data access
Console and Managed Desk includes API access for in-house teams. Signal Reports adds log-level exports and scheduled reports.
Vectravia gives advertiser-side programmatic specialists API access, log-level exports and direct control over deals and supply paths. The team runs the work itself and keeps sight of what the bid stream carried.
Teams that run programmatic themselves tend to need access and control more than hand-holding.
Console and Managed Desk includes API access for in-house teams. Signal Reports adds log-level exports and scheduled reports.
Audience Lab onboards first-party lists with channel-level reach and overlap views, and reads GPP and TCF consent strings before data is used.
Buy on the open exchange or through private marketplace deals. Path Check prefers shorter authorized paths and flags unauthorized sellers.
In-house teams usually want to know what the bidder actually reads. This is the short list, with a plain-English guide for each.
| Standard | What Vectravia does with it | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRTB 2.6 | Bids go out over OpenRTB 2.6, including CTV ad pods and the DOOH object with its Qty multiplier. | OpenRTB 2.6 explained |
| ads.txt, app-ads.txt and sellers.json | Path Check reads them before a bid is placed and compares them with the SupplyChain object in the request. | What a DSP reads |
| GPP and TCF | Audience Lab reads the consent strings before any data is used. | GPP explained |
| UID2 | Where publishers pass tokens, Audience Lab decrypts them following the UID2 DSP guide and honors opt-outs. UID2 is a named third-party service. | UID2 for DSPs |
| VAST | Creative checks run per channel before a campaign launches. | CTV buying basics |
Console and Managed Desk lists API access for in-house teams. Ask for the details in a demo so the walkthrough covers your own workflow.
Signal Reports provides log-level exports and scheduled reports, so your own analysts can work from the underlying records.
Where publishers pass UID2 tokens in the bid request, Audience Lab decrypts them as the UID2 DSP guide describes and honors opt-outs. UID2 is a named third-party service, and this answer covers only the DSP side of the flow. See the UID2 guide.
The managed desk is one of the two ways to run the platform, with the same reporting, permissions and audit trail as the self-serve console. Ask how it would apply to your team in a demo.
Bring your channels, deals and data questions, and we will show how they map to the platform.