MAGNA and OpenAP Partner for Data-Driven Video Capabilities; Magnite Opens New Office in India

MAGNA and OpenAP to Boost Data-Driven Video Capabilities

 

OpenAP and MAGNA announced a new partnership. The alliance will allow MAGNA to integrate directly with Acxiom to build and reach advanced audiences across data-driven video endpoints. OpenAP is a cutting-edge advertising firm that offers audience-based television campaigns scale and simplicity. MAGNA is IPG Mediabrands’ investment and intelligence division. The IPG Mediabrands network’s planning and investment engine, MAGNA, will now have the capability to target and distribute custom audiences across linear, digital, streaming, and programmatic channels using Acxiom data in a central manner through OpenAP. At the conclusion of a campaign, MAGNA will be able to compute cross-publisher and cross-platform reach and frequency.

Partnership for data-driven video capabilities

The alliance demonstrates MAGNA’s dedication to putting viewers first in the future of video advertising. MAGNA will receive actionable audience viewership data and key planning metrics throughout the campaign lifecycle by activating audiences with Acxiom data on OpenID, TV’s common identifier that powers the resolution of linear and digital audiences across publishers. This will give IPG Mediabrands clients a deeper understanding of viewership and eliminate waste and overlap in cross-platform campaigns across multiple currency workflow. OpenAP will provide MAGNA with end-to-end campaign forecasting for both digital and linear channels. This will give clients fresh and additional chances to distribute unexposed audiences to digital and CTV channels, increasing the reach and return on investment of their campaigns. Additionally, MAGNA will gain from having first-mover advantage in the cross-platform, cross-publisher clean room solution provided by OpenAP Data Hub in early 2024.

Timely alliance 

The alliance is announced just in time for the 2025 Upfront. This is when advertisers will still have to deal with fragmentation in terms of identity, viewership, and new currencies. Moreover, the agreement is disclosed when TV networks attempt to sell the majority of their inventory of advertisements prior to the upcoming programming cycle. In order to provide clients of IPG Mediabrands with an objective perspective of planning insights and comprehensive campaign performance, independent of viewership currencies, the company has partnered with OpenAP to centralize audience onboarding, audience distribution, and post-campaign reporting.

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OpenAP partners

NBCUniversal, Fox Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery, and Paramount Global are a few of the companies that support OpenAP. The company wants to give advertisers access to specific consumer segments that are constant regardless of which company’s inventory is bought, as well as the ability to establish more easily comparable benchmarks.

Here’s what they said

Dani Benowitz, Global President, at MAGNA said, 

Identity is the common denominator powering the industry’s transition to a multi-publisher, multi-platform, multi-currency advertising model. At MAGNA, we are committed to an audience-first strategy to deliver the insights and precision our clients need to maximize their investments. This partnership with OpenAP simplifies a complex process and gives the actionable data our team’s need in the planning stage to maximize our clients’ investments.

Abbey Thomas, Chief Revenue Officer at OpenAP stated,

Buyers have more choices than ever before going into the next upfront cycle with multiple new currencies and data sources, all while managing the complexities of fragmentation of audiences across publisher endpoints. By leaning into a common identifier to unify campaigns across publishers, platforms and currencies, MAGNA is modeling the way for how to navigate an incredibly complex media buying landscape and future-proofing their investments as we migrate to privacy-centric clean room technology with Acxiom in the OpenAP Data Hub.

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Magnite Opens New Office In India Expanding Global Presence

 

Magnite expands global presence with opening of first India office. Opening of a Mumbai location enhances support for publishers and buyers in market. The expansion marks Magnite’s commitment to supporting publishers and buyers in one of the fastest-growing digital advertising markets globally.

Expanding presence in India 

The biggest independent sell-side advertising firm, Magnite, has revealed the launch of a new office in Mumbai. It will act as the organization’s headquarters for all of India. This move demonstrates the company’s dedication to helping buyers and publishers in one of the world’s fastest-growing digital ad markets. In order to assist streaming TV media owners in India in managing premium ad experiences throughout the video landscape, Magnite released new cutting-edge tools this year, such as Magnite Streaming and the SpringServe ad server. Strong market demand for these developments has driven an 185% increase in CTV ad spending in India year over year.

Management Roles

As part of its ongoing efforts to expand its workforce in India, Magnite most recently named Chandrahas Shetty as the lead for demand facilitation.  Senior Account Manager Rohit Prasad Yeggina, Account Manager, Supply Jerit Kunjumon, and Senior Account Manager, Supply, Karnika Maroo are among the other members of the team. Together, they are committed to helping clients achieve their goals. They will do so by making sure they can take advantage of Magnite’s special omnichannel capabilities.

Here’s what they said

Gavin Buxton, Managing Director of Asia at Magnite said,

Programmatic adoption in India is forecasted to increase at a CAGR of 32% until 2027, according to Magna Global. Establishing a Magnite hub in Mumbai allows us to provide more hands-on support and help our clients navigate the changing market landscape. As advertisers continue to seek out the most comprehensive omnichannel ecosystem to reach their audiences, we’ll be able to more seamlessly connect them with the premium publishers we work with.

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