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…

Study Sheds Light into the Rise of OTT and the Possibility for New Revenue Models for Leading Providers Apple, Netflix, Hulu and Amazon OpenX announced the findings of a nationwide survey conducted by The Harris Poll, showing a massive consumer shift toward OTT video content consumption is well underway. With the majority of American adults now using at least one OTT service, and most subscribing to three separate platforms to stream content, the new study highlights how OTT has become the primary video content channel…

The New Partnership Will Power Real-Time Analysis on the Industry’s Largest Independent Ad Exchange Sigmoid, a leader in real-time interactive analytics solutions for advertising technology, announced a partnership with OpenX, the world’s largest independent advertising technology provider. OpenX will be using SigView the leading real-time analysis solution from Sigmoid, as a centralized platform to conduct real-time analysis on the company’s over 60B daily auctions, without compromising speed or user experience.…

Global Integration Will Deliver Greater Publisher Monetization and Improved Advertiser ROAS Through Superior Speed, Scalability and Reach Across OpenX Exchange OpenX announced a first of its kind collaboration that will bring the entire OpenX exchange into the cloud with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Through this deployment, OpenX will become the first ever major exchange to move all on-premises workloads fully into the cloud and become truly serverless. Work on integrating the five year technology collaboration began in…

Experienced Agency Leader Previously Led Programmatic Media and Brand Strategy Over 15 Year Stint at Publicis Owned Digitas OpenX, the world's largest independent advertising technology provider, announced that agency and digital media veteran Carol (Chung) Reed is joining the company as global senior vice president of buyer development. In the role, Reed will lead all agency and brand relationships for OpenX. Reed comes to OpenX after 15 years at Digitas, part of Publicis Media, where she led the transformation of the…

Leading Independent Ad Exchange Is One of Only Five Companies Globally to Achieve Highest Level of Quality Certification OpenX, the world's largest independent advertising exchange, announced that the company has achieved Platinum Status for its commitment to quality from the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), designating compliance with all four of the available TAG seals: Certified Against Fraud, Certified Against Piracy, Certified Against Malware, and Certified Against TAG's Inventory Quality Guidelines. Less…

New Audience PMP Feature will Increase Scale and Opportunity by Providing DSPs Access to Transparent Retailer and Brand Audience Data ownerIQ, the leader in second-party, transparent data solutions, announced their new Audience Private Marketplace (PMP) feature in partnership with OpenX, the world’s largest independent advertising exchange. This new product offering leverages the existing DealID infrastructure between Exchanges and DSPs to enable advertisers on almost any DSP to easily access transparent retailer and…

OpenX, the world’s leading independent advertising technology provider, announced the appointment of Michael Martin as VP of Global DSP Partnerships. Michael joins OpenX after more than 10 years at Google where he most recently served as head of sales, media & platforms for DoubleClick and previously held leadership roles for DBM, AdX and other teams within Google’s advertising business. In his new role, Michael will lead OpenX’s global demand team that partners with 400+ DSPs and 34,000+ advertisers, spanning 190…

Publishers, Buyers Can Now Access Video Inventory Through Industry’s Highest Quality Marketplace OpenX, the world’s leading independent advertising technology provider, announced the launch of the company’s video marketplace in Japan and APAC following record growth in the video business in the US and Europe. Publishers and marketers in Japan and APAC can now access video inventory through the OpenX Exchange, one of the industry’s largest and highest quality programmatic advertising exchanges. “As OpenX continues to…

Maggie Mesa VP, Business Development – Mobile, OpenX Opt-in Videos could influence advertising budgets. To understand the extent of this trend and the growing role of opt-in video advertising for digital campaigns, we spoke to Maggie Mesa, VP, Business Development–Mobile at OpenX.Tell us about your role at OpenX and the team and technology that you handle. I head the mobile division at OpenX and have helped the company navigate the larger shift to mobile that we’re seeing in digital media as we have grown the company…

OpenX's Latest Announcement Follows Series of Senior Mobile and Video Product Hires Leading programmatic adtech provider, OpenX has announced the appointment of Todd Parsons as Chief Product Officer. An expert in audience identification, Todd Parsons brings more than 15 years of experience developing products that meet the changing needs of marketers in the rapidly evolving media landscape. The new position will allow the company to increase focus on innovation, and accelerate the development of programmatic solutions for…

Prebid Video Solution Advances OpenX’s Position as Leading Global Partner for Video Monetization OpenX, the world’s leading independent advertising technology provider, announced the general availability of the company’s video header bidding solution built for Prebid technology. The announcement marks another key milestone in the company’s strategy of providing publishers with multiple options to monetize their video inventory in a fully open and high quality marketplace. OpenX’s new video header bidding solution…