Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the largest independent sell-side advertising company, was recognised with the highest score in the current offering category of the ten vendors evaluated in The Forrester Wave™: Sell-Side Platforms, Q4 2024 report. The report, authored by Forrester Senior Analyst Mo Allibhai, cites Magnite’s strength in streaming channels and demand facilitation expertise. In addition, Magnite received Forrester’s highest rating possible in 18 criteria, including Innovation, Desktop & Mobile Display, Open Standards & Transparency, Inventory Quality, and Deployment, Training & Ongoing Support.
Blitz, a premier analytics platform offering real-time insights, stats, and improvement tools for gamers, has selected Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the largest independent sell-side advertising company, as its preferred SSP. This builds on a successful partnership that has seen Blitz’s gross revenue grow triple-digit percent on Magnite’s DV+ SSP in the first half of 2024. Blitz is concentrating all programmatic deals through Magnite to offer advertisers easier access to the company’s omnichannel inventory including display and video.
Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising company, today introduced automated wrapper management within Demand Manager to help publishers grow revenue and increase efficiency. Built on Prebid technology, Demand Manager gives publishers the yield management tools, reporting insights, and data enrichment connections that align with publishers’ business strategies and goals. Using machine learning, the feature finds the optimal configurations in a publisher’s Prebid Wrapper per impression and has the potential to enhance billions of settings to improve performance. Ranker saw a 5% increase in spend after implementing the automated wrapper management feature.
LiveRamp and Magnite, the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising company, today announced a global integration to enable the world’s largest publishers and advertisers to leverage omnichannel addressability across Magnite’s CTV SSP, Magnite Streaming. This integration builds on existing support of LiveRamp’s privacy-centric identifier, RampID, within Magnite DV+.
Magnite has announced the appointment of Nick Henderson to the newly created role of Lead, Revenue Solutions for New Zealand. Working with Managing Director for ANZ, Yael Milbank, Henderson will work closely with premium publishers to uphold Magnite’s market reputation and maximise local opportunities. He will also focus on building key relationships with demand partners and agency decision-makers, while exploring new growth opportunities to further strengthen Magnite’s presence in the region.
Magnite (Nasdaq: MGNI), the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising company, announced that Tennis Australia has selected Demand Manager as their Prebid header bidding wrapper solution. Tennis Australia will leverage Magnite’s DV+ platform and solely implement Demand Manager as their wrapper solution to monetise their display and mobile inventory programmatically for the first time and ahead of the Australian Open.
Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising company, today introduced machine learning driven recommendations for A/B testing within its Demand Manager product. Built on Prebid technology, Demand Manager empowers leading publishers with the tools, insights, and connections to grow revenue across the ever-changing marketplace of ad exchanges, formats, and vendors. This launch marks the introduction of sophisticated machine learning algorithms packaged with existing industry-leading capabilities for publishers to manage their Prebid stack.
Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising company, released its latest research study, “Streaming TV’s New Era: How Ads Are Powering Streaming’s Future in New Zealand. ”The study finds that ad-supported streaming is gaining momentum in New Zealand and 65% of TV viewers tune in to ad-supported streaming services.
Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising company, today announced a global partnership with Scope3 to make carbon emissions data available across Magnite’s extensive omnichannel inventory. As a result, advertisers will be able to assess their carbon emissions and align their sustainability goals with their campaign performance.
Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising company, released its latest research study, “Streaming TV’s New Era: How Ads Are Powering Streaming’s Future in Australia.” The study finds 65% of TV viewers watch ad-supported streaming in the country and the effectiveness of TV advertising, including streaming, drives a high level of trust and recall. Among ad-supported viewers, 83% trust the ads they see within TV and streaming services, compared to 58% of social media users who trust ads, including video ads, within social. In addition, 57% of ad-supported streamers remember ads the most within TV (including streaming services).
Magnite (NASDAQ:MGNI), the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising company, has announced that Yael Milbank has been appointed to the newly created role of Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand. Yael brings over 20 years of experience across both markets to the role, including at TVNZ and TradeMe, where he led sales teams and owned senior internal and external relationships, before joining Magnite in 2016. In his seven years as Magnite’s Managing Director, New Zealand, Yael worked closely with broadcasters and publishers to ensure that their complex needs were met through strong product adoption, best-in-class technology, and unrivaled service levels.
Magnite (Nasdaq: MGNI), the world’s largest independent omni-channel sell side advertising company, has been chosen by Foxtel Media to enable programmatic advertising on ad-supported streaming service, BINGE Basic. As the initial exclusive programmatic launch partner, Magnite will provide advertisers with access to BINGE Basic’s premium inventory across connected TV (CTV) and over-the-top (OTT) platforms.
Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world’s largest independent omnichannel sell-side advertising company, today announced wider adoption of its ClearLine solution by streaming TV media owners and advertising agencies. ClearLine is an ad server-agnostic solution that provides agencies with direct access to premium video inventory on Magnite’s platforms.
Magnite (NASDAQ:MGNI), the world’s largest independent omnichannel sell-side advertising platform, today announced Magnite Streaming, a singular supply side platform that merges leading technology from the Magnite CTV and SpotX platforms. Magnite Streaming empowers media owners to maximise the value of their assets holistically across live and VOD inventory, CTV and OTT environments, and addressable linear, while gaining insights to more efficiently and effectively drive their businesses. Magnite’s CTV and OTT clients include Nine, TVNZ, Emtek Digital and Samsung Ads. Magnite Streaming also provides advertisers with unparalleled access to CTV and OTT inventory, audience targeting capabilities and real-time reporting.
SpringServe, now part of Magnite, has announced the appointment of Mete Bargmann as Commercial Director, JAPAC under which he is responsible for planning, developing and implementing commercial strategies to support and accelerate the growth of SpringServe throughout Asia Pacific.
Magnite (Nasdaq: MGNI), the world’s largest independent omnichannel sell-side advertising platform, today released a study entitled “India Embraces the Streaming Era” that found ads on streaming platforms capture more attention than ads on social media. Nearly two thirds of India’s streamers (64%) are more responsive to advertising on streaming platforms, with many stating they often search for the product (48%) and make a purchase (33%) after the fact.
Magnite (NASDAQ:MGNI), the world’s largest independent omnichannel sell-side advertising platform, today reported growth across Asia, delivering a 23% increase from H1 2021 to H1 2022 across its platform compared with the overall APAC digital advertising market’s expected 12% growth in 2022, according to Magna Global.
Magnite has announced that Priyanka Bajaj is joining as Head of Demand Facilitation in Asia. Priyanka will be responsible for building and leading the Magnite Demand Facilitation team in Asia, with a focus on developing and growing key strategic demand-side relationships with leading media agencies, DSPs and buyers in the region and driving accelerated growth.
Magnite (Nasdaq: MGNI), the world’s largest independent omnichannel sell-side advertising platform, today released a study entitled “Live and Kicking: An In-Depth Look At Live Streaming in Australia” that found sports streamers are more responsive to advertising than traditional TV watchers, with many stating they often remember the ads seen (39%) and discuss the ads with someone (32%) after the fact.
Magnite has announced that Maddy Mewing is joining as Seller Lead in Australia, covering Nikola Small’s role while she is on maternity leave. Maddy will head up Magnite’s growing publisher accounts team and develop key relationships with Magnite’s portfolio of broadcaster and publisher clients, with greater revenue responsibility.