OpenX announced that Tom Levesque has joined the company as Vice President of Product, overseeing product management across all business lines. Tom joins OpenX from Xandr, where he led product across a variety of functions, including header bidding, connected TV (CTV), and external identifiers. Tom is a recognized leader in the Prebid community having previously served as President and board member at Prebid.org. Marketing Technology News: Alliance Develops Shared Diversity and Inclusion Goals In his role at OpenX,…

Publishers understand the revenue opportunities with Prebid, but see huge room for growth OpenX today released the findings of a recent survey that examines how digital media publishers are using Prebid to manage their programmatic advertising. The survey highlights the importance of Prebid in terms of generating and maximizing revenue, with over 75 percent of publishers reporting that they find Prebid to be a "critical aspect" of their revenue. Marketing Technology News: EY Intelligent Delivery Platform for SAP To…

Marketers now able to seamlessly reach addressable, people-based audiences across the OpenX Exchange OpenX and LiveRamp, today announced the expansion of their US partnership into Australia, providing local marketers with an improved way to reach audience segments on LiveRamp Authenticated Identity Infrastructure. As part of the integration, marketers will be able to increase their addressable reach and engage with their audiences across thousands of publishers' inventory, including web, in-app, and connected TV (CTV)…

New initiative is the latest example of industry-wide collaboration designed to deliver identity solutions for a post-cookie world OpenX announced support for Unified ID 2.0, a new identity initiative being supported by The Trade Desk and other industry leaders. The support for Unified ID 2.0 is the latest in a series of efforts by OpenX to both build and partner with solutions that allow marketers and publishers to execute effective audience targeting on the open web in a cookie-less ecosystem. Unified ID 2.0 is an open…

Liao brings more than 20 years of digital media experience to OpenX OpenX announced that the company has appointed Mark Liao as Chief Financial Officer, leading the company's financial strategy, accounting, business intelligence and revenue performance teams. Liao comes to OpenX from Amobee, where he served as CFO for over three years. Liao has also held CFO positions at Turn and iSocket, as well as several senior roles at Yahoo! including VP of Business Operations and VP of Operations Finance for the Yahoo! Americas…

Sigmoid, a leading end-to-end data solutions company, announced the results of its latest project with OpenX - the world's largest independent advertising technology provider. OpenX has partnered with Sigmoid to standardize both internal and external reporting for OpenX's partners and employees. Sigmoid's powerful real-time data analytics solution Sigview has been helping over 40,000 globally connected OpenX users conduct real-time analysis on their advertising data. Marketing Technology News: MRM Commerce Achieves…

Customizable options and new testing capabilities provide tools to maximize revenue while maintaining full visibility and control OpenX announced the launch of Apollo, a product that gives publishers of all sizes the ability to customize and optimize their Prebid configuration and maximize programmatic revenue. With Apollo, publishers have access to sophisticated configuration management and a/b testing capabilities that allow them to regularly test and assess the effectiveness of their Prebid set-up, and with three…

Buyers can come to OpenX for easy and secure access to robust data sets made available through Snowflake Data Marketplace OpenX announced the launch of the company's Bidding Intelligence Data Set (BIDS), a new solution to make log-level reporting available to marketers or agencies looking for more visibility into their programmatic media buys. Through a partnership with Snowflake, the cloud data platform, buyers that work with OpenX can now quickly, easily and securely access granular data around auction participation and…

Successful SPO reviews and new products highlight significant growth with brands and agencies OpenX reported recent milestones from the company's business unit dedicated to building and expanding brand, agency and DSP relationships. With new and renewed SPO partnerships, new products, and a new senior executive leading the team, the buy-side of the OpenX business has grown on multiple fronts, bringing valuable demand to the OpenX Exchange for publishers. Marketing Technology News: Virtu Lauches Open Technology, a…

Hi Paul, tell us more about your role and team you handle at OpenX. My role as CTO at OpenX covers a variety of functions across the business. Part of this involves overseeing and structuring internal tools and technology, looking at everything from the Cloud platform our business runs on (GCP) to the processes we set up to run our global help desk. I also oversee our Product team -- thinking about what we’re building and how that ties to benefits for our partners and revenue for OpenX. Whether looking at internal…

Consumers spend more time on the open web, trust what they see and read more, and find the advertising more effective and impactful as compared to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Amazon OpenX announced the release of the company's latest report with global market research firm The Harris Poll, looking at consumer views towards the open web compared to walled gardens like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Amazon. The report highlights a variety of ways consumers prefer the open web over various walled garden environments,…

New Infrastructure Has Enabled International Expansion, New Product Development and More OpenX announced that earlier this year, the company completed the migration of the OpenX Exchange onto Google Cloud Platform (GCP), becoming the first major exchange to move completely to the cloud. As of Q3 2019, the entire OpenX business was moved off of all on-premise servers. The migration to the cloud positions OpenX as one of the fastest and most scalable exchanges in the industry, future-proofing its technology stack and…

Patent is the 8th issued to leading digital advertising exchange OpenX announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company U.S. Patent 10,410,245, "System and methods for using a revenue value index to score impressions for users for advertisement placement." The patent highlights the vision that OpenX had years ago of allowing both marketers and publishers to better assess the value of an individual user behind a screen, and ensure ads are shown at a fair price that offers maximum value…

Integration will help publishers prepare for a cookieless ecosystem OpenX announced the integration with LiveRamp and its IdentityLink and Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS) into OpenAudience, the company's people-based marketing solution for the open web. The move deepens a global partnership between the two industry leaders in identity resolution and people-based marketing. Today's announcement showcases OpenX and LiveRamp's partnership to bundle the identity capabilities of IdentityLink and ATS with a…

Millennial Shopping Surge to Help Spur Five Percent Total Increase in Holiday Spend OpenX released its annual holiday report in conjunction with The Harris Poll that examines trends in consumer shopping, media consumption, effectiveness of advertising and much more. The 2019 data paints a complex, yet optimistic picture for retail as consumers report a healthy appetite to spend this Holiday Season. For the first time in an OpenX/Harris Poll report, a majority of holiday shoppers plan to spend more on digital channels,…

Millennial shopping surge to help spur five percent total increase in holiday spend OpenX released its annual holiday report in conjunction with The Harris Poll that examines trends in consumer shopping, media consumption, effectiveness of advertising and much more. The 2019 data paints a complex, yet optimistic picture for retail as consumers report a healthy appetite to spend this Holiday Season. For the first time in an OpenX/Harris Poll report, a majority of holiday shoppers plan to spend more on digital channels, as…

Expansion Provides Opportunity to Drive Increased Demand to Top Publishers in the Region OpenX, the world's leading independent digital advertising exchange, announced at Advertising Week APAC the official launch of operations in Australia. The company also announced the hiring of advertising veteran Mitchell Greenway as director of partner services for Australia and New Zealand. With the launch of operations in market, OpenX will bring greater access to demand for the quality inventory that exists in…

Tell us about your role and the team/technology you handle at OpenX. I serve as OpenX’s Chief Brand and Communications Officer. OpenX is the world’s largest independent advertising exchange and the first people-based Marketing platform built for the open web. My team leads the organization’s brand positioning and marketing as well as all of our market research efforts designed to help brands and publishers effectively navigate the constantly evolving Digital Advertising landscape. How different is the global Digital…

Senior Hires from the Trade Desk and Linkedin Join to Lead In-Market Team as Openx Completes Integration with Google Cloud Platform Becoming First APAC Exchange to Operate Fully in the Cloud According to a report published last year by the Boston Consulting Group, regional advertising in APAC is expected to surpass $19 billion by 2020, with 36 percent flowing directly to programmatic channels. To support this growing market trend, OpenX announced significant investments it is making to deliver the next generation of…

OpenAudience Will Provide Marketers the Ability to Easily Plan and Buy Advertising for Every Digitally Addressable Consumer Across the Open Web For the past decade, the most effective way to advertise in digital media has been on Facebook and Google. Marketers in the US now spend two-thirds of all digital ad spend on the "walled gardens", despite the fact that they receive less than 36 percent of total consumer time spent online. According to eMarketer, addressing this massive asymmetry in advertising - where tens of…