“What do we mean when we say, programmatic?” asked Michael Morrow, marketing director for advertising intelligence, Kantar Media SRDS, in a Connectiv webinar last week titled Media Boot Camp on Programmatic Buying Part 1. “Historically, people have said open auctions, real-time bidding. It’s important to know that the programmatic eco-system is much broader than all that. At its essence, programmatic is an umbrella term for automated and data-driven ways that you can offer your inventory to buyers.