OpenX (company)

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OpenX
TypePrivate
Industry Online Advertising, Big Data
Founded2008
Headquarters Pasadena, California
Key people
John Gentry (CEO), Tim Cadogan (Chairman and Co-founder), Jason Fairchild (Co-founder), Paul Ryan (CTO)
ProductsAd Server, Ad exchange, SSP
Number of employees
200+ [1]
Website www.openx.com

OpenX Software Ltd. is a programmatic advertising technology company founded in 2008. [2] It has raised over $75 million from Accel, Index, Samsung, Dentsu, Mangrove Capital and others. [3]

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Background

OpenX has offices in Pasadena (HQ), New York, Tokyo, London, and Kraków. [4]

In September 2017, OpenX acquired two publisher tools, Mezzobit and PubNation. [5]

After laying off "around 100 employees" in December 2018, [6] the following month OpenX announced plans to move all on-premises workloads fully into the Google Cloud Platform by Q2 2019. [7]

In May 2019, OpenX launched OpenAudience, a planning and targeting tool based on LiveRamp and Tapad data. [8]

In January 2020, OpenX announced that CEO and co-founder Tim Cadogan was leaving to become the CEO of GoFundMe and that President John Gentry would step into the CEO role. [9] This was followed in April by another round of layoffs where 15% of the company was affected. [1]

In December 2021, the Federal Trade Commission announced that OpenX would pay a $2 million fine "to settle allegations that the company violated federal children's privacy law." Originally, the fine was to be $7.5 million but it was reduced "due to the company's inability to pay." [10] [11]

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