OpenX and Meredith Local Expand Partnership with Header Bidding

Los Angeles and New York – August 29, 2016 – OpenX, a global leader in creating programmatic advertising marketplaces that drive superior monetization, and Meredith Local Media Group (Meredith Local), an operating arm of Meredith Corporation, the leading media and marketing company with local television brands serving more than 100 million American women, today announced an expanded partnership with the successful integration of OpenX Bidder into Meredith Local’s robust monetization strategy across desktop and mobile.

To date, Meredith Local has recorded a greater than 50 percent lift in OpenX-procured monthly revenue with a customized version of OpenX Bidder, driving over 50 percent of overall revenue. Dedicated OpenX partner experience team members conducted detailed data and yield analysis to design the ideal monetization strategy for the Meredith Local portfolio of 17 local television stations’ digital news properties with audiences in over 12 million U.S. households.

“OpenX Bidder, coupled with OpenX’s superlative partner service and expert yield and solutions teams, enabled us to rapidly optimize our digital inventory, resulting in 20 percent increase in net eCPMs across OpenX inventory,” said Caley Lewis, director of programmatic partnerships at Meredith Local. “OpenX is not your average technology partner, they are a partner who thinks outside the box, developing thoughtful solutions unique to Meredith Local. With the help of a dedicated team of OpenX experts, Meredith Local has seen sustained and measured increase in OpenX-procured and overall monthly revenue.”

“There’s no such thing as a ‘one-size fits all’ monetization strategy. The OpenX yield team views each one of our publisher partners as unique, and building customized optimization strategies is one way we help our partners achieve maximum revenue,” said Qasim Saifee, SVP monetization at OpenX. “Since Meredith Local first integrated the OpenX Bidder solution, our yield analysts have worked collaboratively with their team to leverage header bidding to increase competition and yield across their digital properties, with excellent results.”

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