Programmatic Buying

The Rubicon Project, the leading digital advertising technology company for the comScore 500, has acquired Mobsmith, a mobile advertising platform. Combining Mobsmith’s mobile solution with Rubicon Project’s real-time trading platform, REVV, comScore 500 publishers and ad buyers will have a single platform and marketplace for buying and selling of both display and mobile ad inventory.

24/7 Media, WPP’s marketing technology company, and Microsoft Advertising announced an extensive partnership to support their customers in the rapidly changing digital advertising marketplace. As a result of this agreement, that brings together two of the largest players in the advertising industry, clients of both companies will benefit from markedly enhanced scale, optimization and automation. The global online ad market is estimated to exceed $98 billion in 2012.*

The Rubicon Project, the leading digital advertising technology company for the comScore 500, today has acquired Mobsmith, a mobile advertising platform. Combining Mobsmith’s mobile solution with Rubicon Project’s real-time trading platform, REVV, comScore 500 publishers and ad buyers will have a single platform and marketplace for buying and selling of both display and mobile ad inventory.

Adap.tv today introduced its new App Center for video advertising making the process of managing hundreds of brand advertising technologies as easy as managing one. Built on Adap.tv’s open platform, the App Center is a centralized place for buyers and sellers to discover, implement and manage best-in-breed brand ad technologies for TV and video from inside the Adap.tv console.

Operative, a global software company, today announced that Manu Warikoo will assume the role of Chief Product Officer, leading the company’s product strategy and R&D roadmap. Previously serving as senior vice president of solutions at Operative, Warikoo will leverage his engineering and business experience in his new role to bridge product, strategy and engineering for Operative’s products and services, which simplify the buying and selling of ad inventory for media companies.

PubMatic (http://www.PubMatic.com), the digital media platform company for publishers, today announced partnerships with publisher-side ad servers that will be integrated through PubLink, the company’s enterprise app marketplace for publishers.

LiveIntent today announces LFX, the first platform designed to allow publishers to manage and monetize their valuable subscribers wherever they are - in email, on mobile devices and across the web. LiveIntent’s LFX provides premium publishers with the tools they need to control access and optimize yield of direct-sold, house, DSPs and Agency Trading Desks’ demand. It also allows advertisers to efficiently reach subscribers in the same way they access premium display on the web – programmatically or through a publisher’s direct ad sales force.

Adap.tv, the company that delivers a programmatic way to plan, buy, sell and measure TV and video advertising, today announced the recent hire of Lewis Sherlock and Anne Peiré; two industry veterans tapped to build upon the growth of Adap.tv in Europe.

MediaMath, the leading digital media-buying platform and services company, announced it has signed a joint-venture agreement with PubliGroupe, a publicly traded provider of marketing and media sales services based in Lausanne, Switzerland. The partners have formed a new dedicated company in Berlin, Spree7 GmbH, to serve the markets of Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Spree7 will offer a state-of-the-art media buying platform and services to advertisers and agencies based on MediaMath technology. The unit will launch its operations by mid-April.