Your digital media buyer. It reads the brief, shops the market, compares offers and books the deal. It doesn't take PTO and it doesn't forget to send the IO. It also has no judgment beyond what you give it. The quality of a buyer agent comes down to the mandate you write and the guardrails you set.
Ad tech glossary
Buyer Agent
Technical definition
An AI agent acting on behalf of an advertiser or agency to discover inventory, evaluate offers and book media within a defined mandate.
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Related terms
- A2A (Agent2Agent Protocol)
- AAMP (Agentic Advertising Management Protocols)
- adagents.json
- AdCP (Ad Context Protocol)
- Agent Manifest
- Agentic Advertising
- Agentic Audiences
- Agentic Commerce
- Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP)
- Agentic Marketplace
- AgenticAdvertising.org
- Answer-Based Ads
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