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Crossroads. The CTV sell-side
platform, built for scale.

Much more than an ad server: mediation, a unified auction and Adte's unique CTV demand, alongside the ad server you run.

Crossroads by Adte

Much more than an ad server

Keep the ad server you already run. Crossroads works alongside it to bring every buyer to your inventory, including Adte's own CTV buyers and Google demand, make them compete for every ad break, and help you package and sell your audiences. Prefer one platform? Our ad server is built in.

Ad requests per second, scaling automatically
1M+
CTV ads served
20B+
Buyer integrations, ready to switch on
100+
Built for CTV, from the auction up
100%

Who it's for

One platform, three ways to grow

Publishers

Run your own marketplace

Go beyond selling impressions. Package your inventory with your own data signals, curate deals for buyers and run a marketplace and curation business on top of your supply, with Adte's own CTV buyers in the mix.

  • Curated PMP deals and packages
  • Activate your first-party data signals
  • See exactly where a deal falls out
Content owners

Your own mini walled garden

Sell direct and stay in control. Run direct campaigns on your content through Adte's DSP and SSP, keep your data yours, and let programmatic demand compete for the rest.

  • Direct campaigns end to end: DSP, SSP and ad server
  • Your audience data, your rules
  • Adte demand and programmatic fill the rest, in one auction
Media platforms

An exchange under your brand

Turn your platform into a full CTV exchange. Your own demand gets first look at every impression, and every other buyer competes for the rest.

  • First look for your own demand
  • A branded portal for your publishers
  • Onboard supply with one tag and one login

The platform

Four layers, one stack

Your ad serverCrossroadsAdte demand + every buyer

  1. Layer 1: Ad server: yours or ours

    Keep the ad server you have, or run your direct campaigns on ours.

  2. Layer 2: Mediation

    Every buyer in one place: Adte's own demand, Google demand and 100+ more.

  3. Layer 3: Unified auction

    All your buyers compete at once for every ad break, so each slot goes to the best bid.

  4. Layer 4: Curation & data activation

    Package your inventory and audiences into deals buyers want.

Inside Crossroads

See your business at a glance

The Crossroads dashboard with KPI tiles and today's traffic and revenue charts
A Crossroads supply tag with KPI tiles, an hourly chart, auction settings and its demand table
The Crossroads report builder with CTV content dimensions, and the assistant explaining how they work
Setting up a Prebid demand tag in Crossroads, with the bidder list open
Demand tag settings in Crossroads: traffic-shaping automation, bid request shaping and response handling
Budget settings in Crossroads: budget type, period, pacing, allow list and day parting

Live dashboard

Your key numbers, the moment you log in.

Built for scale

Built for the moments everyone watches

When a live game cuts to a break, millions of viewers hit the same ad break in the same second. Crossroads scales up in seconds to handle it, so those breaks get filled instead of dropped.

Scale-up for a live spike, in seconds
50x
Queries per second
1M+
Regular programmingLive ad break

100% built for CTV

Made for TV, not adapted for it

Built for TV ad breaks

Designed for streaming from day one, not a website ad tool stretched to fit TV.

Fills the whole ad break

Sells every slot in a multi-ad break, not just the first one.

Plays on every player

Ads are adjusted to fit the player your app uses, so fewer of them fail to play.

Works with server-side ads

Ads run smoothly in streams stitched on the server, like FAST channels.

Buyers know what they're buying

Buyers see the show, genre and channel, so they can bid with confidence.

Measurement buyers trust

Buyers' verification and measurement partners keep working on every ad.

Trust & transparency

See every auction. Prove every path.

Fraud protection by HUMAN

Independent checks before and after every ad, so buyers trust your inventory.

A clean path to buyers

Buyers can see exactly how your inventory reaches them, with no hidden middlemen.

Reporting on every auction

See why you won or lost, not just what sold.

AI built in

An AI assistant for your ad ops team

Crossroads comes with an AI assistant that knows your account. It answers questions, watches your numbers and takes the busywork off your team.

  • Support

    Ask about any tag, deal or setting and get a plain-language answer. The assistant sweeps your account for issues and explains what it finds.

  • Reporting

    Describe what to watch in plain language. AI Monitors track revenue, profit and fill on the schedule you set and email you when something changes.

  • Automation

    The assistant drafts filtering rules for you to review, while traffic shaping and auto-deactivation keep tuning yield without manual work.

Three ways to run it

Run it your way

  1. You operate

    Your ad ops team runs Crossroads; Adte supports the platform.

  2. Co-managed

    Adte's CTV ops team runs demand onboarding and yield with you.

  3. Fully managed

    Adte operates the platform for you. You keep the relationships with your buyers and partners.

Get started

See Crossroads on your inventory

Tell us what you run and what you're after. We'll come back with a walkthrough built around your stack, with Crossroads working alongside the ad server you already have.

What happens next

  1. A short call about your inventory and goals
  2. A live demo of the parts you picked
  3. A plan to plug in alongside your current ad server
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