Bringing intelligence closer to inventory to power a simpler, more responsible future for advertising

NEW YORK: OpenX, The Intelligent SSP, today unveiled a new logo, positioning, and look and feel to usher in the next era of digital advertising. As part of this rebrand, the company also refined its commitment to make media work better for the people who run it and the people who experience it - by simplifying advertising and upholding rigorous inventory and data quality standards.

The complexity problem in modern advertising

As AI reshapes how campaigns are planned, bought, sold, and optimized, the complexity that has developed over the past decade has become one of the advertising industry’s greatest liabilities.

Whether it’s an agentic buyer, an agency trader in a demand-side platform (DSP), or an in-house marketer in an LLM interface, buying systems require: clean, real-time data signals, direct access to quality inventory, transparent reporting, and tools built to adapt to customer needs. Today's supply chain routinely fails to deliver all four.

“In an ecosystem that has historically profited from complexity and opacity, simplicity is imperative to move forward,” said Matt Sattel, CEO of OpenX. “We’ve spent the past decade building the intelligence layer closest to media and data. This next step is about putting that power to work in a way that’s easier to understand and simpler to use. That clarity drives greater accountability and enables buyers to confidently compare and evaluate solutions.”

A product architecture built for clarity

To close the gap between complexity and performance, OpenX is introducing a streamlined product offering - OpenXSelect™, OpenXBuild™, OpenXControl™, and OpenXExchange™ - that is easier for advertisers, publishers, data partners, and DSPs to understand, compare against alternatives, and deploy.

The architecture rests on three pillars:

• Quality: Direct publisher relationships, clean data and identity signals, and transparent supply paths ensure higher signal fidelity across CTV, app, mobile web, and desktop.
• Performance: AI-powered curation and targeting that occur closest to inventory increase reach, reduce the number of intermediaries, and drive more working media for advertisers and revenue for publishers.
• Adaptability: OpenXBuild provides infrastructure for advertisers to build next-generation ad solutions on a secure, interoperable foundation, while OpenXSelect enables custom brand standards and media quality control.

Intelligence where media decisions are made

Built on a legacy of data and identity, OpenX’s proprietary supply-side identity graph delivers privacy-forward, high-quality signals directly alongside quality inventory, ensuring intelligence lives where media decisions are made. That intelligence is powered by OpenX’s elastic, cloud-native infrastructure, making it the only major SSP or DSP architected entirely in the cloud and purpose-built to support AI-driven, agent-based buying.

As advertising evolves, the industry must anchor innovation in quality standards, transparent supply paths, and privacy-forward data practices. Simplification is not just about efficiency - it’s about responsibility.

About OpenX

OpenX is The Intelligent SSP™ (supply-side platform), simplifying advertising for marketers, advertisers, and publishers worldwide. As one of the largest SSPs globally, OpenX combines the industry’s only fully cloud-based infrastructure with leading AI capabilities to make digital advertising easier and more effective across every format, including CTV. Built to responsibly deliver quality, performance, and adaptability, OpenX makes digital advertising safer, smarter, and built for what’s next. Learn more at www.openx.com.

Fonte: Business Wire