Rubicon project acquires inventory search service nToggle

Advertising exchange Rubicon Project has acquired inventory search service nToggle in a deal worth $US38.5 million, the companies announced yesterday.

Rubicon Project Acquires nToggle

Technology Will Help Hundreds of DSPs on Rubicon Project’s Exchange Find Choice Inventory and Reduce Infrastructure Costs

Rubicon Project (NYSE: RUBI), the global exchange for advertising, today announced that it has acquired nToggle, a technology company that makes it easier and more cost effective for programmatic buyers to find the inventory they’re looking for among the billions of bid requests they receive each day. The technology will be made available on the Rubicon Project platform in the coming months, giving buyers the option to utilize the bid request optimization technology.

Since the introduction of header bidding, the number of bid requests received by demand side platforms (DSPs) has increased by as much as 5X. Although access to inventory has increased, the infrastructure costs associated with that growth have put a huge burden on DSPs, resulting in many of them never seeing large swaths of that available inventory. The nToggle technology makes it easier for DSPs to more effectively identify and target their key audiences, while also significantly reducing their infrastructure costs by compressing inbound queries per second (QPS) by as much as 80%.