Digital Advertising Technology

Ad Technology That
Closes the Loop

We build the full advertising technology stack — campaign management platforms, creative serving infrastructure, audience data management, and multi-touch attribution systems that tie spend to real business outcomes.

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The Ad Tech Stack

React / Vue.js
Campaign Management UI
Rich interactive dashboards with real-time data updates, chart libraries (Recharts, ECharts), and complex form workflows for campaign and creative management.
PHP / Node.js
Campaign Logic & API
Campaign pacing, targeting rule evaluation, budget management, and reporting APIs. Laravel for complex domain logic; Node.js for high-concurrency event processing.
PostgreSQL
Campaign & Audience Data
Campaigns, line items, creatives, audience segments, and conversion events stored relationally. Partitioned by advertiser for multi-tenant isolation.
Redis
Frequency Cap & Pacing State
Real-time budget pacing counters, user frequency caps, and hot audience segment lookups — all in-memory with configurable TTLs.
ClickHouse
Performance Reporting
Impressions, clicks, conversions, and spend data stored in columnar format. Advertisers query campaign performance at any granularity in under 2 seconds.
CDN
Creative Asset Delivery
Creative assets (images, HTML5, video) served from the nearest edge PoP. Cache-control headers ensure fresh creatives for active campaigns and caching for static assets.
Kafka
Event Pipeline
Impression pixels, click events, and conversion signals flow through Kafka topics. Consumers update ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, and the pacing engine in near-real-time.
Docker / K8s
Deployment Platform
Campaign API, tracking pixel endpoint, and creative server deployed as independent services. Pixel endpoint scales independently to absorb impression volume spikes.

Building Ad Platforms

Campaign management and pacing

The campaign management layer handles the advertiser-facing complexity: budget allocation across line items, dayparting, frequency caps per user per day, and creative rotation rules. Pacing logic runs in-process against Redis state — never in a database query — to keep the control loop latency low enough to be accurate without being wasteful.

We implement even pacing (smooth delivery throughout the day) and ASAP pacing (spend as fast as possible within budget) as configurable options, with real-time spend tracking that can halt delivery within seconds of hitting a budget limit.

Tracking and attribution

Impression pixels, click redirects, and conversion tags generate event streams that flow through Kafka into both ClickHouse (for reporting) and a session-stitching service (for attribution). We support first-touch, last-touch, and linear attribution models, as well as view-through attribution with configurable windows.

For advertisers who require conversion verification, we integrate server-side postbacks rather than relying on client-side pixels alone — eliminating ITP/cookie restrictions from the measurement equation.

Audience data management

Audience segments are built from first-party signals (site visits, purchase history, CRM data) and managed in a lightweight DMP layer backed by Redis for real-time lookups and PostgreSQL for segment definitions. We implement look-alike modelling using cosine similarity on behaviour vectors when historical audience data is available.

Creative serving and brand safety

Creative assets are stored in S3 and distributed via CDN with versioning — a creative update never requires a cache purge, only a new version pointer. HTML5 ad units are sandboxed using iframes with content security policies to prevent malicious code execution on publisher pages.

How We Build Ad Platforms

01

Advertiser & publisher workflow mapping

We map the complete workflow — from campaign creation to impression delivery to conversion reporting — before designing any data model or API. Edge cases like creative rejection and budget exhaustion are designed upfront.

02

Pixel and tracking infrastructure first

The tracking endpoint and event pipeline are built before the campaign UI — you can't report on campaigns without accurate data, and it's easier to validate tracking in isolation.

03

Campaign management UI with real data

The management interface is developed against real event data from day one. No mocks — we validate reporting accuracy against known test campaigns before the first client gets access.

04

Controlled beta launch

Platform launches with 2–3 seed advertisers whose campaigns are monitored closely. Pacing accuracy, reporting latency, and creative delivery are verified against SLAs before opening to additional advertisers.

Tracking Accuracy Testing

We fire controlled test impressions and conversions with known parameters and verify that ClickHouse reporting reflects them within the agreed latency window and with 100% accuracy. Discrepancies are investigated at the pipeline level.

Budget Pacing Accuracy

We run pacing simulations against historical impression volume patterns. Acceptable overspend is defined (typically <2%) and the pacing algorithm is tuned to stay within bounds across the full range of campaign budgets and durations.

Creative Serving Load Tests

The pixel endpoint and creative server are load tested at 5× expected peak QPS. We verify response times, asset delivery consistency from the CDN, and correct handling of CORS, click tracking, and redirect chains.

Multi-Tenant Isolation Tests

On multi-tenant platforms, we verify that advertiser A cannot access advertiser B's data, campaigns, or audience segments — at the API layer, query layer, and reporting layer. Isolation is tested with automated regression tests on every deployment.

Ad Platforms We've Built

Performance Agency · Global
A performance marketing agency managing $40M+ in annual ad spend needed a proprietary campaign management platform to replace a patchwork of third-party tools, with unified reporting across all channels and custom attribution modelling.
We built a full campaign management platform with a React frontend, PHP/Laravel backend, and a ClickHouse-powered reporting engine. Channel adapters sync campaign data from Google Ads, Meta, and programmatic platforms via their APIs. Attribution is computed in a Go microservice that stitches sessions across channels using a configurable model.
$40M+Ad spend managed
6Channels unified
<2sReport generation
Publisher Network · Eastern Europe
A publisher network with 50+ websites needed a self-serve direct advertising platform where brands could book guaranteed inventory, upload creatives, and see real-time delivery and performance reports — without going through a sales team.
We built a self-serve platform with inventory calendar, creative upload and review workflow, guaranteed delivery pacing (per-hour impression targets), a pixel-based tracking system, and a reporting dashboard updated every 5 minutes from ClickHouse aggregations.
50+Publisher sites
5minReporting latency
±2%Delivery accuracy
DTC Brand · DACH Region
A direct-to-consumer brand losing visibility into conversion attribution as iOS privacy changes degraded third-party cookie and IDFA signals. They needed a server-side tracking solution that worked independently of browser restrictions.
We implemented server-side event tracking using the Conversions API (Meta CAPI) and Google Ads Enhanced Conversions, supplemented with first-party cookies and a session graph built from hashed email matches. Conversion data is routed through our tracking infrastructure before being forwarded to ad platforms.
+38%Attributed conversions
0Cookie dependency
GDPRCompliant
Media Holding · CIS Region
A media holding company needed a centralised audience DMP to unify first-party data from 8 owned properties, build interest segments, and activate them across their own ad inventory and external DSP platforms.
We built a lightweight DMP that collects behavioural events from all properties, clusters users into interest segments using real-time rule evaluation, and syncs segments to SSP platforms via cookie syncing. A Redis-backed segment lookup API serves real-time targeting decisions for in-house inventory.
8Properties unified
200+Audience segments
<5msSegment lookup latency

Building an ad tech platform?

Whether it's a campaign management tool, tracking infrastructure, or an audience platform — let's talk through your requirements and build it right.