AT&T and Toyota are the top real-time-bid spending leaders
LOS ANGELES — September 14, 2012 — Rubicon Project®, the leading digital advertising technology company for the comScore 500, reveals a look at the top buying and selling U.S. activity on its real-time trading platform, REVV®. In this month’s release of Rubicon Project’s Marketplace report, AT&T, Toyota and American Express placed first, second and third for top advertisers spending through real-time bidding (RTB). 

Rubicon Project’s REVV platform reaches more than 96% of the U.S. Internet audience as measured by comScore, providing buyers the largest marketplace for quality inventory. As the largest reach platform in the digital advertising industry, REVV’s figures provide an accurate representation for the rapidly growing real-time-bidding market. The study also shows that the top five RTB categories — the ones in which the most money is spent via RTB — are, in order, Technology & Computing, Automotive, Personal Finance, Shopping and Food & Drink. 

“A recent study from Parks Associates noted that RTB would soon account for more than a third of all display ads sold. We’re seeing that RTB accounts for more than half the total ad spend on our platform, putting REVV ahead of the curve,” said Frank Addante, founder & CEO of Rubicon Project. “Looking at the top advertisers and categories in our recent report is useful for our publishers, agencies and advertisers to gain insight into this rapidly changing landscape.”

Among the report’s other notable rankings: 

•        Top five publisher verticals in overall paid RTB impressions: Arts & Entertainment and News were the top two categories for the second month running. 
•        Top five publisher verticals in eCPM: Family & Parenting ranked first for the second consecutive month, while Education surged from the fifth spot in July to a strong second in August.  
•        Fastest-increasing categories in RTB ad spend: News was #1 here, showing an increase of more than 113%. 
•        Fastest-decreasing categories in RTB spend: Pets showed the biggest decline, dropping by 68% from July.

The report also looks at the fastest increasing and decreasing categories in eCPMs, and ranks the top 20 countries by RTB spend. 
The full report is available for free download at www.rubiconproject.com/insights/ . 

About Rubicon Project 
Rubicon Project® is the leading independent advertising technology company for the comScore 500 and reaches a global audience of more than 200 million US and 646 million global unique visitors monthly, the largest reach on the Internet (as measured by comScore). Rubicon Project’s real time trading platform, REVV®, helps publishers including a third of the comScore 100 make more money by automating and optimizing monetization of their digital media advertising inventory through a real time auction to digital ad buyers, while ensuring brand safety, pricing control and reduced operational costs. Hundreds of buyer channels (DSPs, Trading Desks, Ad Networks and Exchanges) representing more than 70,000 end advertisers access and bid on inventory through the REVV platform, forming one of the largest-scale transaction marketplaces in any industry. REVV's powerful and highly scalable trading and protection algorithms, running on Rubicon Project’s global real-time cloud infrastructure, process more than double the transaction volume of NASDAQ everyday.