Real Time Bidding (RTB) is an advertising technology that allows demand side platforms to evaluate each ad opportunity individually in real time before deciding to bid. RTB increases campaign profitability by paying appropriate prices for impressions and increases scale and quality by bidding higher for high-value users. It also enables more effective targeting, context, predictive analysis, and retargeting. The document predicts that programmatic advertising will continue growing globally, more premium inventory will be available on private exchanges, video RTB will become mainstream, third-party data targeting options will increase, and real-time reporting will be increasingly important for strategic media buying.