Programmatic Display averages $0.66 CPC and $3.30 CPM. Pre-Roll Video is bought on CPM only, averaging $18.00. Analysis for Denmark in 2026.
Denmark sits alongside Sweden as a premium Nordic ad market, with CPMs running roughly 20% above US baselines. The market is small (~5.9M people) but dense with high-purchasing-power audiences. Google and Meta dominate, with TV2 and JP/Politikens Hus providing meaningful premium digital inventory. Danish consumers are notably ecommerce-comfortable and skew older in digital ad receptivity than Swedish peers — Denmark has the EU's highest smartphone penetration in the 60+ demographic, which matters for some categories. The Datatilsynet (Danish DPA) is aligned with broader Nordic privacy positions, and consent rates are moderate to low. English creative works for B2B and premium consumer; Danish localization is meaningful for most B2C.
Automated display ad buying across multiple exchanges
Video ads that play before online content
The auction, the creative, the budget floor — the three things you actually need to know before picking a platform.
Programmatic display buys the same display inventory as GDN plus long-tail supply-side sources (AppNexus, Xandr, Magnite) through a demand-side platform. Every impression is a real-time auction. CPMs are the lowest of any channel ($2–5) but so is attention.
All standard IAB banner sizes: 300×250, 728×90, 160×600, 320×50 mobile, plus HTML5 rich media for higher-tier placements. Video pre-roll in the same DSP: 15s/30s at 1080p.
$3K–5K/month is the practical DSP minimum. Retargeting on programmatic is where small budgets get outsized ROI.
Pre-roll (the video ad before online video content, non-YouTube) is CPM-priced at $12–20, sold through DSPs against a video inventory pool separate from social. Skippable and non-skippable formats coexist; non-skippable commands a 20–30% CPM premium.
15s (most common), 6s bumper, or 30s. 1920×1080 16:9, 24 or 30fps, H.264. Captions and audio-off usability increasingly required as autoplay-muted becomes default.
$3K–5K/month for standalone pre-roll; often bundled with programmatic display or OTT in a single video-inclusive DSP buy.