SpotX and Sharethrough Announce New Integration, Bringing Together Premium Outstream and Native Video Supply At Unprecedented Scale
NEW YORK, June 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SpotX, the leading video advertising and monetization platform, today announced a new integration with Sharethrough, the industry's leading native supply side platform, to bring SpotX's programmatic infrastructure for outstream demand to Sharethrough's in-feed video supply. By connecting advertisers around the world to Sharethough's unique standard outstream format, SpotX and Sharethrough will offer advertisers access to premium, brand-safe environments through the Sharethrough Exchange, helping them reach cross-screen audiences at scale with in-feed video.
More than 1,000 publishers make their inventory available through the Sharethrough Exchange, which has more than 10 billion available video ad impressions each month. By working with SpotX through an open real-time bidding (ORTB) server-to-server integration, Sharethrough is able to offer its publishers SpotX outstream demand. The partnership also opens a new type of video supply for SpotX's outstream buyers. Native video has been a huge growth area for Sharethrough the last three years, seeing consistent quarter-over-quarter double digit growth.
"Outstream and native are the two fastest-growing formats of the last few years; while the two markets have remained largely separate, they are actually quite compatible and bringing them together helps both advertisers and publishers," said Curt Larson, Chief Product Officer at Sharethrough. "This new integration with SpotX helps to connect the various dots in a digital video ad market that has matured well past pre-roll, and should help fuel even further growth."
SpotX has also employed first-price auctions within both open and private marketplaces for Sharethrough, a move that will improve the ability for advertisers to win impressions in a header-bidding world and increase revenue opportunities for publishers in a more transparent environment for both buyers and sellers. According to data from the Sharethrough Exchange, first-price auctions have higher win rates when bids are submitted into header bidders.
"Video is increasingly a crucial part of every publisher's revenue strategy, and unlike pre-roll video ads, outstream is not supply constrained," said Geoff Spence, regional vice president at SpotX. "Our partnership with Sharethrough will definitely bring new opportunities to both the buy and sell sides, and we look forward to delivering more solutions and continuing to innovate with such a prominent leader in the native space."
All standard outstream videos running through Sharethrough play automatically in-feed, with a headline and clearly labeled description indicating that it is a video ad for full transparency and context for users.
About SpotX
SpotX is the leading global video advertising platform that enables media owners and publishers to monetize premium content across desktop, mobile and connected TV devices. As a modern ad server with programmatic infrastructure, data enablement, and monetization solutions for OTT, outstream, and addressable TV, SpotX gives media owners and publishers the control, transparency, and actionable insights needed to understand buyer behavior, manage access and pricing, and maximize revenue. SpotX also provides advertisers with a direct pipeline to premium supply and innovative solutions for optimizing media efficiency, reach, and audience targeting. With best-in-class technology purpose-built for video, SpotX's holistic, brand-safe solution is employed by some of the largest media owners and publishers in the world including fuboTV, Microsoft Casual Games, Newsy, Samba TV, Sling TV, Vudu and partners with a variety of different companies within the digital video ecosystem including comScore, DoubleVerify, Integral Ad Science, JW Player, MediaMath, MOAT, Nielsen, Oracle, and more.
Headquartered in Denver, SpotX has nearly 600 employees in 24 offices worldwide including Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, Los Angeles, Milan, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, and Tokyo. In October 2017, RTL Group completed its 100% acquisition of SpotX which is currently combining its business with smartclip, a sister company. Learn more at www.spotx.tv and follow @SpotX on Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Sharethrough
Sharethrough is a native ad tech company, helping the world's largest marketers and trading desks serve high-performing, non-interruptive native ads into the feeds of thousands of publishers worldwide. Native advertising is preferred by audiences and has been shown to generate higher brand lift and clickthrough rates.
The Sharethrough Exchange (STX) powers 12 billion monthly impressions, the largest marketplace solely dedicated to the buying and selling of native ads: integrated with more than two dozen of the world's largest trading desks and the native buying platform of choice for 46 out of the top 50 Ad Age mega-brands. Sharethrough for Publishers (SFP) is a modern supply side platform used by 1200 publishers globally to manage their entire native advertising revenue stack. In 2017, Sharethrough's platform powered $250 million in gross native ad spend.
Sharethrough was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, Detroit, London, Tokyo and Toronto.
Media Contacts:
Tammy Blythe Goodman
SpotX
+1-303-345-6671
tgoodman@spotx.tv
Tom Thacher
Sharethrough
tthacher@sharethrough.com
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