Everyone at the Rubicon Project is so excited to hit 1 trillion impressions – and it is obvious throughout the Rubicon building. Big numbers of 5, 4, and 3 have been falling off the walls as the team counts down until the presumed day that we will hit 1 trillion “imps” – Monday, November 22nd!
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Rubicon is purchasing mostly the technology (ad server, MyAds self-service ad buying platform, targeting technology, realtime bidding algorithms) and taking on about 100 of FAN’s technology employees (after the other half of FAN’s employees, the sales team, lost their jobs last week). FAN’s third-party ad network is not part of the deal.
MySpace is trading most of the assets of its Fox Audience Network to the Rubicon Project in exchange for a significant equity minority stake, according to sources close to the situation. Under the deal, which is nearly complete with a signed term sheet, MySpace will hand over a number of parts of FAN, including most of its 300 employees.
« I’m honored to join Michael and the DDS team. There’s no company better positioned to support ad agencies’ next wave of growth and profitability. What’s most exciting is the fact that DDS has a proven track record of helping to bring order and efficiency to a chaotic media marketplace, and there’s no medium that needs that more right now than digital. »
Addante describes that company right now as “hyper-focused around three goals for our platform by Q3 and Q4”. One is to maintain its position as the top provider for yield optimization, which involves increasing the value of publishers’ online ad inventory; the second part of the plan involves being in the top five in terms of audience reach—according to Quantcast, Rubicon reaches 550 million users worldwide, behind only Google. The other goal is to be the second most used platform for real-time bids for online inventory.
CPMs across the Rubicon 20 Index have risen by an average of 25 percent vs. Q1 2009; in addition, the highs on the index in the latter part of the first quarter of the year outperformed nearly all of 2009.
Dr. Neal Richter, Data Science Lead of The Rubicon Project, says in a Q&A on the company blog in regards to real-time bidding and the second-price auction (which is used by Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange): « It’s common knowledge in the industry that this mechanism is great for fairly allocating opportunities to buyers. However, it’s less well-known (outside of economics literature) that this method is not necessarily optimal for sellers. One flaw is its susceptibility to collusion among buyers, and explicit collusion is not necessary. The implicit collusion of the buyers having information that the seller does not exposes this flaw
the Rubicon Project, the digital advertising technology and data company, has launched Permission Control 2.0, sales rights management and pricing control technology that delivers efficient and safe access to the most sources of advertising revenue for publishers…
Un supply side platform pour les médias en ligne, qui permet aux éditeurs de mettre en concurrence les adnetwork, mais à une plus grande échelle (Rubicon délivre 2 milliards d’impression en deux jours). Rubicon a levé 42 millions de dollars, emploie 160 personnes, dont 6 à Hong Kong, 2 à Sidney et 13 à Londres, et s’implante en France en juin prochain…
The Rubicon Project is benefiting from AOL’s retrenchment in continental Europe, having been brought in to manage unsold inventory in six markets including Spain.
The Rubicon Project, the ad network optimisation company, is making its first foray into mobile advertising as the medium’s consumption increases.
the Rubicon Project, the Internet advertising infrastructure company, issues a manifesto, Principles of a REVVolution – the ad server is dead, that takes direct aim at the current leaders in the ad server technology market, and details plans for the company’s new publisher-centric digital advertising technology and data platform, engineered exclusively to empower publishers to monetize content and data across all digital media, in every geographic region where their audiences consume media, and at every tier of inventory, from premium inventory to inventory that goes unsold.
Today, publishers struggle to identify and address problems with ads served through third-party sales channels, such as ad networks – even more so when the publisher is working with multiple demand channels. VANTAGE enables publishers to see details for every ad optimized by the Rubicon Project across all of their sites, so they can instantly identify and locate the ad tags they want more information on, minimizing the time it takes to resolve potential issues.
CPMs across the Rubicon 20 Index have risen by an average of 34 percent vs. Q3 2009, due to holiday ad spending and major online traffic drivers, such as celebrity news topics. “Based on the serious spending increases from advertisers and innovation on both the supply and demand sides of the equation in the fourth quarter of last year, we believe 2010 is going to be a strong year for the digital advertising industry.
To give you a sense of scale, hitting our 500 billionth ad impression means that we are optimizing about 1.6 billion ads a day, breaking down to about 18,519 ads per second.
If the Rubicon plan works, publishers will get more money for their space and can also be choosier about their advertisers. Maybe those ads for teeth whiteners aren’t worth the reader distraction. « Who said every URL on the Internet needed ads? » Batson says
“When we started the company in 2007, we knew there was a need for a technology to help combat the fragmented landscape. Now with just two years under our belt and hundreds of millions of dollars flowing through the REVV Marketplace – it’s a clear indicator that the industry is responding to the innovation and technology we’ve brought to market,” said Frank Addante, CEO and Founder
Rubicon Project, the Internet advertising infrastructure company, extends publishers’ corporate social responsibility efforts with Good Impressions, a charity program for customers to donate a portion of their site impressions to non-profit organizations through the REVV™ platform
Targeting premium publishers and their sales channel partners, ad technology firm The Rubicon Project has released new tools to expand their reach, build more customized audiences, and sell a new tier of ad products through its Targeted Audience Program.
A recent report commissioned by yield optimiser, The Rubicon Project, suggests that UK publisher rate card prices are holding firm and online revenues are rising. The report – conducted by e-consultancy – questioned over 150 publishers between August and September.
Marketers are eager to get their ads in front of people who want to see their products. They want to know who’s reading style sections of news so they can deliver them ads from designers such as Ralph Lauren and Salvatore Ferragamo, say, instead of ads for the latest camping gear or retirement home. They and data firms such as Blue Kai and eXelate pay $2 to $3 for information on 1,000 readers so that they can deliver ads to people they think will want to see them.
The Rubicon Project, an Internet advertising infrastructure company, reveals exclusive insight into emerging industry trends and market shifts occurring in late 2009 in the seventh installment of its Online Advertising Market Report series.
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