Ad Exchange -- An Ad Exchange is where publishers meet advertisers and agree on a price to display their ads. The ad exchange sits in the middle of the programmatic ecosystem and is plugged into a Demand-Side Platform (DSP) on the advertiser's side and a Supply-Side Platform (SSP) on the publisher's side.
Ad Network -- A business that sells ad space on behalf of multiple publishers.
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