Programmatic monetization · since 2015

You're leaving ad revenue on the table. We reclaim it.

Archon Programmatic House manages more than 40 billion ad requests a month for premium publishers like MSN, Transfermarkt and Rollic Games — and lifts net ad revenue about 25%.

Buying media, not selling it? Talk to our team

40B+
Ad requests / mo
90%+
Retention
~25%
Avg. uplift
The free yield audit Sample scorecard

Your site, scored across 23 technical perspectives — every gap sized in %.

Auction depth−2%
Floor science−9%
Identity · PPID / PPS−8%
Viewability−3%
Supply chain−6%
AI-search readiness−4%
+ 17 more perspectives in the full scorecard
Total
uplift band
+2937%

Illustrative sample. Yours is measured from your live site, no access needed — scorecard in 3 business days, yours to keep.

Trusted to monetize
MSN Netflix Amazon Transfermarkt Rollic Games Rakuten TV OSNtv
The programmatic iceberg

It's not what you know. It's what you DON'T.

You've mastered the visible part of programmatic. The revenue you're missing is in the part you can't see — and it gets deeper every year. Our team has spent twenty years in this water. The last eleven of them, we've been APH.

A single line of tag and a few defaults in GAM feel like "done." They're not. The difference between a competent setup and an expert one is the 90% beneath the surface — and that's where 20–30% of your revenue is sitting.

See where the revenue hides →

Programmatic isn't getting simpler. It's getting harder.

Signal loss, privacy frameworks, identity solutions, AI crawlers rewriting how content gets discovered — every year adds another layer below the waterline. The gap between "set it and forget it" and expert management widens every quarter. Standing still is falling behind.

Bots already outnumber humans online — 57.5% of all web traffic.

AI-driven traffic grew 8× faster than human traffic last year. On that curve, 80% by 2028 is a schedule, not a stretch. Is your inventory ready for that?

Cloudflare data, reported by Forbes ↗
Premium ad supply fell by roughly a third — while eCPMs rose ~30% in the UK.

Q2 2026, year over year. Fewer impressions, each worth more. That is exactly the market where expert management pays — and set-and-forget bleeds.

Ozone data, reported by Digiday ↗

Twenty years in this business taught us where the revenue hides.

Archon Programmatic House manages over 40 billion ad requests a month for premium publishers. We bring the full stack of expert monetization — the visible and the invisible — and the average publisher sees a ~25% net revenue uplift when they join.

Archon CortexThe yield engine · live

Price floors that move with the market.

Archon Cortex analyzes millions of rows of your real bid data — including the bids you lost — and resets floors per ad unit, country and device, twice a week.

+15–25% on its own
Archon UnityThe reinvented ad slot · beta

Inventory that never goes to waste.

Archon Unity turns your unsold 20–40% into contextual experiences that lift engagement and yield — one tag, no ad-stack changes.

~30% uplift measured in alpha, 300M+ ad requests
Archon GenesisAEO readiness · in development

Ready for the AI era.

Archon Genesis makes your content machine-readable and citation-ready for answer engines, cuts the hosting cost of bot traffic, and builds toward LLM-bot monetization as payment standards mature.

In development · waitlist open

What we can offer you

Tell us who you are. See everything we'd bring.

Open your publisher type, tick anything you'd want us to bring, and submit — the form that follows is four fields long.

Four publisher types, one desk.

Open yours on the left. Everything we'd bring is listed — tick what interests you and submit. No commitment, just a shorter first conversation.

Monetization & SSP
Yield & Ad Ops
Optimization & Tech
Direct Sales
Offerings
Offerings
Offerings
Nothing ticked yet — open a category and pick what interests you

The audit is free and yours to keep. The fixes are our job.

Free yield audit — scorecard in 3 business days.

We audit your site from the outside (no access needed) across 23 technical perspectives — auction depth, floors, identity, viewability, video, supply chain, AI-search readiness. You get every score, every gap sized in %, and the total uplift band. Keep it either way.

A 30-minute walkthrough.

We take you through the findings and answer anything. No slides recycled from another publisher — it's your data.

A plan built on your data.

When we work together, the audit goes deep: your GAM and Data Transfer data, an implementation playbook, and a revenue forecast in line with your vision.

Onboarding without rip-and-replace.

Keep your ad stack; we layer expertise on top. Revenue share on overall ad revenue, no upfront cost — we earn when you earn.

Continuous optimization.

Floors retuned twice a week, ongoing ad-ops, transparent reporting.

The audit is built for publishers doing 10M+ ad requests a month. Earlier than that? We'll send you the five fixes worth making at your stage — and the number to come back at.

Objections, answered

The questions enterprise publishers actually ask.

"Our ad-quality standards are strict — we're not adding more ad slots."

Neither is MSN, and we've run their inventory under Microsoft's Creative Acceptance Policy since 2016. Uplift rarely comes from more slots. We usually keep the count — sometimes cut it — and move the revenue with placement, sizing and timing instead.

"We already optimize price floors in-house."

With what data? Most in-house floor work runs on won-bid reports. Archon Cortex reconstructs the full landscape from millions of rows of raw bid data — including the bids you lost — and reprices every ad unit, country and device twice a week, validated against holdouts. Same discipline, different altitude.

"Our header-bidding stack is mature."

At enterprise level it usually is — that's table stakes. What's typically left is below the waterline: identity and addressability (PPID, PPS, Secure Signals, EIDs), floor science from lost-bid data, video auction depth, and the unsold tail.

"Programmatic must not conflict with our direct sales."

Agreed — that constraint has governed our largest engagement for nine years. For MSN we built a waterfall where Google demand strengthens the mix without ever undercutting direct deals. Your sales house keeps priority; the auction fills around it.

"How do we know the numbers are real?"

The free audit is measured from your live site, and the deep audit runs on your own Data Transfer and BigQuery bid data. You see the evidence before you commit.

"What does it cost?"

Revenue share on overall ad revenue — no setup fee, no upfront cost, no minimums. The exact split depends on your inventory, and that conversation happens after the audit.

"What's in the free audit — and what isn't?"

Everything we measure: 23 perspective scores, the gaps, and what each is worth. What it doesn't include is the implementation playbook — the how-to is what you hire us for. We'd rather tell you that here than surprise you on a call.

Free yield audit

Find out what you're not seeing.

A free yield audit of your site — 23 perspectives, scored and sized, in your inbox within 3 business days. No obligation, and the findings are yours either way.

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