At long last, sell-side platform (or do you say “ad exchange” or “marketplace”?) Rubicon Project has filed it’s S-1 Registration Statement with the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission in preparation for an Initial Public Offering (IPO). The company is looking to raise $100 million. It has yet to reveal pricing for its offering so no […]
Mobile and the rise of programmatic media buying are where two international priorities for publishers and marketers meet, according to global industry experts. During the “Marketing Tech Through the Global Lens” panel moderated by Constellation Research Analyst Ray Wang at Industry Preview 2014 on Tuesday, Jay Stevens, GM for international at online advertising technology company […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jay Stevens, general manager for international at Rubicon Project. It’s fair to say that native advertising may have generated more column inches in the industry press than most any other […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jordan Mitchell, vice president of product at Rubicon Project. The concept of “holistic yield management” is in the front of many publishers’ minds right now. It allows RTB demand to […]
Automation Is Coming. In panel after panel at New York’s Advertising Week, publishers and agencies heaped hate on ad selling inefficiencies and delivered eulogies for their mutual adversary, the insertion order. The big questions: Which players will be first to seize the automation grail? And how long will it take? The holding company trading desks […]
A “significant jump” in the number of advertisers tapping into programmatic platforms – 39% of advertisers now take advantage of these technologies – indicates interest is on the upswing on the buy side. According to the Online Advertisers Survey Report 2013 by digital marketing research company Econsultancy in partnership with Rubicon Project, the number of […]
Twitter’s acquisition of mobile supply-side platform MoPub this week could pave the way for more activity and something close to standard business models in the nascent mobile exchange space. Established desktop exchange players like the Rubicon Project and PubMatic, which have expansive networks on the sell side, have struggled to retrofit their existing platforms to […]
Tribune Digital, the interactive arm of the newspaper and broadcasting company, expects mobile traffic on its 36 WAP sites and 60 apps to exceed the PC-based usage it gets this year across its 50 websites. But the question facing it and other publishers looking to nudge ad spending to more closely match users’ smartphone and […]
It’s been a little over a year since Anthony Katsur joined sell-side pricing and inventory manager Maxifier as COO from demand side platform MediaMath, and the former DoubleClick executive is moving up to the CEO seat. He replaces Jonathon Shaevitz, who steps down from the post just two years shy of taking it. The move […]
J.T. Batson is leaving his post at media buying workflow systems provider Mediaocean to become chief revenue officer at Cumulus Media, which is primarily known for running the former ABC Radio Network. Meanwhile, Mediaocean, which was the resulting brand from last year’s merger between Mediabank and Donovan Data Systems, will not be replacing Batson directly, […]
Female-leaning lifestyle content network Glam Media is the latest publisher to adopt the private exchange model, as more companies look to buttress and protect their guaranteed, direct sales with the increasing demands for more real-time offerings for advertisers. Rubicon Project will power the exchange for GlamAdapt, the publisher’s ad serving unit. The move comes at […]
The industry has made striking advanced in tracking the value and attributes of biddable online ad inventory, but the road ahead is long. That much was clear at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Ad Operations summit in New York. In a discussion of inventory packaging and pricing, Neal Richter, chief scientist at Rubicon Project, and Art Schram, VP of Glam […]
Last week PaidContent gave us an update on Sambreel Holdings, a fast-growing purveyor of browser plugins and other software that can alter ad space on premium websites. Some of Sambreel’s products work by displacing ad positions on sites like About.com, Google.com, NYTimes.com and other publishers, and then inserting new ads that Sambreel sells through its […]
In yet another sign that major publishers are embracing real-time bidding, The Wall Street Journal Digital Network has teamed up with The Rubicon Project to launch its first branded private ad exchange called “WSJ AUDEX.” The invitation-only exchange will allow select advertisers and marketers access to the WSJ Digital Network’s first-party data across its flagship […]
Frank Addante is CEO of Rubicon Project, an online advertising technology company specializing in sell-side, yield optimization. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com sat down with Addante to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of Rubicon Project today. Click below or scroll down […]
Announcement on Monday – likely regarding the acquisition of FAN assets… from the press release: the Rubicon Project Hosts Press Conference With CEO & Founder, Frank Addante LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–the Rubicon Project will host a press conference to discuss company strategy and future growth plans. Who: Frank Addante, CEO and Founder of the Rubicon Project […]
Publisher yield optimizer, Rubicon Project, announced that it has acquired SiteScout, a company whose technology looks to “prevent malicious ads and other dangerous Web content from reaching customers.” Read more. Craig Roah, COO and Founder of The Rubicon Project, talked about the acquisition and how it will be integrated into the company. AdExchanger.com: Why buy […]
The Rubicon Project announced that it will be launching real-time bidding functionality to a limited group of demand-side partners in addition to providing controls to Rubicon Project publishers. Read the release. Rubicon Project’s VP of Marketing Kara Weber discussed the news and its implications. AdExchanger.com: When will the beta begin with your demand-side partners and […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Alanna Clark is Director of Business Development at AdMeld, a publisher yield optimization company. Three-day weekends, holiday seasons, a plethora of Q1 inventory. These are all normal signals and events throughout the course of our year but also triggers for more […]
The Rubicon Project released it’s Online Advertising Market Report for Q4 2009 and said that CPMs were showing considerable strength as “CPMs across the Rubicon 20 Index have risen by an average of 34 percent vs. Q3 2009.” Read the release. And, download the report here (sign-up required). Rubicon Project VP of Marketing, Kara Weber, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Grabbing TiVo Data According to Todd Spangler of Multichannel News, Google is looking to “combine second-by-second set-top data from TiVo with data from Dish Network, which will let the Web giant track the viewing habits associated with more than 5 million TV sets […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. $9 Million For Rubicon Project Rubicon Project brought in another $9 million in equity investment to “continue pursuing acquisitions and global expansion.” Leading in this round was GE/NBCU’s Peacock Equity Fund which invested $6 million investment with existing investors Clearstone Venture Partners and Mayfield […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adobe Buys Omniture Adobe is going data! With a focus on creative with their core product suite of Photoshop and Illustrator as well as the entire Macromedia line bought in 2005, Adobe signals a change in strategic direction. According to The Wall Street Journal, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Retargeting Reach Undertone Networks announced yesterday “U360 AudiencePlus™.” In an example from Undertone publishing partner A&E, the new offering is positioned as an audience retargeting solution which will retarget A&E visitors (cookied by Undertone), for example, when they visit other sites within the Undertone […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AdSense Thru DoubleClick’s Ad Exchange! It’s official! Well, almost. The AdSense blog announced late Tuesday that ad networks will now be buying AdSense inventory through an open auction. That can only mean one thing: Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange – AdEx 2.0 – lives. From […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Portals, Publishers and Networks, Oh My! Citing three years of data that include more than 4,800 marketing campaigns collected by WPP’s Dynamic Logic, The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel delivers the details on a new OPA study which says that large publisher’s premium (i.e. […]
Today’s linkage on ad exchange-related news… Rubicon Project released a new report on Q1 advertising CPMs and trends in display. Among the findings, Joe Mandese of MediaPost reports that “Rubicon estimated that the volume of display advertising inventory sold through advertising networks grew 150% between the two quarters, and that “same site” sales actually grew […]
Those crazy yield optimizers are at it again! Or, are they really ad exchanges waiting in the tall grass? First up, Yield Build. The company led by CEO Paul Edmondson has launched a new premium text ad network for publishers that optimizes Google AdSense ads in combination with somewhat exclusive Microsoft PubCenter ads and produces […]
In an LA Times article last week by Dan Neil, a yield optimization company finally admitted it. “We want to be the Visa, the Nasdaq of online advertising,” said Frank Addante, Rubicon Project CEO. Yeah baby! Just come out and say it, yield optimizers – you’re ad exchanges! We won’t disown you… not here on […]
This news likely crossed under the radar for many but yield optimizer, Pubmatic, took another step forward into the exchange model by allowing ad networks open API access – the ability to buy from its network of website publishers. To date, yield optimizers have served member publishers by aggregating, and then testing (sometimes may also […]
