The Trade Desk vs. Connect

The Trade Desk's self-service, cloud-based platform enables ad buyers to create, manage, optimize and measure advertising campaigns across ad formats and devices. Integrations with hundreds of global data, inventory, and publisher partners ensure maximum reach and decisioning capabilities, and enterprise APIs enable custom development on top of the platform. The Trade Desk's powerful technology offers advertisers unparalleled audience scale and reach, evaluating more than 13 million impressions and quadrillions of permutations across the open internet every single second.

CONNECT, powered by BRIDGE, makes digital advertising seamless, offering agencies, small businesses, media companies, and enterprises a powerful way to plan, build Data Safe℠ audiences, activate, and measure campaigns—all with no platform fees. Our solution lets you intuitively create custom consent-based, privacy-compliant PII audiences of real people for each campaign. Once your audience is created, launch campaigns across Email, Social Media, Display, CTV/OTT, and Audio, reaching people where they’re most engaged.