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Russian RTB market in 2012




          February 2013
Table of contents

Table of contents........................................................................................................................................... 2

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 3

RTB Development Prerequisites in Russian Online Advertising Market ....................................................... 5

RTB principles of operations ......................................................................................................................... 6

Russian RTB market ....................................................................................................................................... 8

   RTB market players ................................................................................................................................... 8

   2012 Events .............................................................................................................................................14

   Advertisers ..............................................................................................................................................15

   Forecasts and figures ..............................................................................................................................16

Conclusions and Outlooks ...........................................................................................................................18

       RTB for Advertisers..............................................................................................................................18

       RTB for Publishers ...............................................................................................................................18

       RTB for Agencies..................................................................................................................................19

       RTB for Technological Companies .......................................................................................................19

Attachment .................................................................................................................................................20

   Global RTB Market and Major European and American Markets...........................................................20

   References...............................................................................................................................................22




The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                                                                                2
Introduction

According to the recent study by the American company Accordant Media, Russia has been
named one of the countries with the highest RTB market development rate in 2012. It entered
the Top 15 list of RTB-markets where in the 4th quarter of 2012, online advertising exchanges
showed the highest growth rate y-o-y. It is not surprising, since the last year can be described
as the year of birth of Real-time Bidding in Russia, and only by the end of that year the
ecosystem which is expected to gain momentum was formed.

This review provides an understanding of the current state of advertising RTB-products in
Russia and tracks market development in 2012, explains the RTB mechanism to advertisers and
market experts and highlights their expected implementation effects. When creating it, ADFOX
Company experts used public data, studies of Russian and foreign companies, market experts’
opinions as well as their own assessments and judgments.

The RTB protocol regulates automated trading of digital media on a wide range of technology
platforms, devices and advertising products where real-time pricing is a prerequisite. The RTB
market comprises all players who provide media, technologies and services that interact
according to the RTB protocol and advertising products sold within the protocol framework.

Worldwide, the RTB market as an independent phenomenon emerged in 2009 when the major
players of the global online advertising market, firstly, Google started investing into that
technology. The RTB technology allows adjusting the rights of all advertising market players -
advertisers, publishers and advertising technologies, meeting the interests of each party and
delivering high efficiency of advertising campaigns.

According to eMarketer and IDC estimates, the global RTB market has been growing by 50-80%
a year, and the growth is not so much due to opening of new markets, such as Russia, Turkey
and China, but also due to intensified use of the technology by market players. The main
advantage of the technology is automatic setting of fair price for an advertising contract not
affected by human factor. Such approach to pricing allows balancing between the interests of
publishers seeking to maximize their advertising revenue and advertisers wishing to ensure
maximum efficiency of advertising campaigns for a fair value.

The RTB ecosystem has just formed in Russia. In 2012, all major players of the Russian online
advertising market announced launches of their own RTB-services and use of the RTB protocol
to optimize placement of ads. An RTB working group was formed in IAB Russia and most of the
market players take part in its meetings. In 2012, the basic standards of operation of the RTB-
ecosystem in Russia were put forward for discussion and approval and steps to develop the
market through joint efforts of players were outlined.


The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                  3
This review provides data, analysis of developments, forecasts, and conclusions. Unless
specified otherwise, this information represents an expert opinion and assessment provided by
ADFOX experts.




The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                               4
RTB Development Prerequisites in
Russian Online Advertising Market

The RTB technology started its triumphal march around the world in USA, moving later to
Europe and reaching Russia in early 2012.

Among the main prerequisites for the technology to emerge were the following:

   o Development of behavioral targeting systems and Big Data application

   o Successful experience in the search advertising market where auction pricing is one of
     the most attractive features for an advertiser

   o Demand of Internet publishers for a tool to effectively manage monetization of the
     remnant traffic

   o Advertisers’ desire to get qualitative, highly-targeted audience and flexibly manage their
     own advertising campaigns

   o Advertisers’ intention to reach new markets and audiences while maintaining control
     over pricing

A number of companies of all sizes announced their launch of RTB into commercial operation
during 2012. Western players (Google, Facebook, Crimtan, Criteo) are entering the Russian
market , local market players (Yandex, ADFOX, AdRiver) develop their own products, new
companies emerge their central technologies focusing on the RTB protocol (Between,
DataMind). But 2013 will see the real kick-off for RTB in Russia, when market players will not
only test the new technology, but also involve the largest advertisers into its usage.




The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                     5
RTB principles of operations

RTB (Real Time Bidding) is a technology of auction-based sale and purchase of ad views.

The RTB auction takes place in real time: while a user downloads a web page, the system is
holding an ad view auction. An ad view request is sent to all bidders. In a split second DSP-
systems should determine the value of such an ad view and place a bid. The auction winner
gets the right to demonstrate his ad. The auction winner pays the second highest proposed
price.




The "second price" auction is typical for auctions when participants do not know each other's
bids. The idea behind such an auction is that participants do not need to be overly cautious
when placing their bids, and so they offer their real prices. Each participant knows that if he
wins, he will definitely pay less than he offered. So he simply states the price which coincides
with his personal assessment of the lot.

The RTB ecosystem functions according to the Open RTB protocol developed under the
auspices of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), a public organization.




The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                    6
Source: OpenRTB API Specification Version 2.1




RTB Market Players:
DSP (Demand Side Platform) is a platform that allows agencies and advertisers to purchase
online ads at different ad exchanges

SSP (Sell Side Platform) or Exchange is a platform for website owners that allows automating
sales of traffic to make more money through those sales using the auction-based pricing
mechanism.

ATD (Agency Trading Desk) is a centralized platform for advertising purchase by various
advertising models.

DMP (Data Management Platform) - platforms to manage the data which allow you organizing,
segmenting and analysing huge amounts of information used for targeting of advertising
messages with the purpose of delivering of the most sought after and useful for each viewer ad
at the particular moment.

Ad Networks - intermediaries between advertisers and publishers. They collect media sites into
a single pool and make it easy to advertise, while accumulating expertise and facilitate selection
of the best options to meet the demand.

Data Brokers are organizations and services that collect and sell information about users’
consumer interests to improve accuracy of targeting of advertising messages.

Ad Verification & Brand Protection means ad post-verification and brand protection against ill-
designed and posted advertisements.

Ad Servers are technological companies that provide software, infrastructure and tools for
advertisers and publishers to manage and optimize placement of ads in interactive media.

The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                    7
Russian RTB market

RTB market players




Profile: SSP, AdServer

ADFOX has been operating in the online advertising market since 2005. In November 2012,
ADFOX entered the RTB market and opened its own platform for commercial use to optimize
advertising revenue from placement of advertisements at ADFOX SSP websites. Currently,
ADFOX SSP completed technical integration with Begun, DataMind, Kavanga, Retargeter and
Soloway systems. Ad networks and DSP are connected through the IAB Open RTB API
Specification V2.0 protocol




Profile: DSP

The company was founded in 2006 in Germany. Currently it is one of the leading independent
European companies engaged in advertising based on consumer data. The company offers a
large assortment of products for websites, agencies and advertisers.




The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                              8
Profile: AdServer, Data Supplier

Online ad operating system AdRiver began its work in March 2001 and is presently one of the
leaders in the Russian market of technological solutions relating to online advertising. AdRiver
belongs to the Internest Group of companies. Internest’s portfolio of brands also includes a
selective advertising operator Soloway and a banner exchange network RLE.




Profile: DSP

Begun is the first Russian contextual advertising service with pay for performance and auction
pricing. The company has been operating in the market since 2002.Begun is an authorized
reseller of Google AdWords in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The monthly audience of the
Begun network is 27.7 million users. Begun is integrated with major SSPs represented in the
Russian market.




Profile: SSP

Between Digital is a young Russian profitability management system that allows websites to
effectively sell online advertising using the RTB technology. It announced its commercial launch
in December 2012 and was operating in the test mode since May.




Profile: DSP

Crimtan is a Russian branch of the British Crimson Tangerine Company, a player in the media
Internet advertising market. The high-tech network of behavioral advertising created on the
basis of its own platform. The company provides advertisers with Internet-marketing
opportunities using profiling, Internet audience segmentation and targeting as well as
optimization.



The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                   9
Profile: DSP

Criteo was founded in Paris in 2005, and currently positions itself as a personalized retargeting
operator. The company has more than 3 million customers, the core of which is made of major
online retailers. Criteo operates in more than 30 countries around the world including Russia.




Profile: DSP

A project launched by Tinkoff Digital created by Oleg Tinkoff and Goldman Sachs in 2012 for
Internet investing purposes. Commercial operations were announced in December. Yota.Play
became one of the first customers of the platform.




Profile: Retargeting

eTargeting is a young technological company engaged in studying of the Internet audience and
selling of targeting and retargeting solutions. The company employs dynamic, local targeting
and a number of other instruments.




Profile: RTB Stack

The company was founded in 1998; it has been operating in Russia since 2005. Google is the
leading web corporation in all major global markets. The company has been developing RTB
since 2009, and by now it has invested more than one billion dollars into development and
promotion of the technology. In Russia, Google has been offering RTB products since the
beginning of 2012.




The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                  10
Profile: DSP

Invite Media was founded in 2007 in the USA. The company owns a universal platform to buy
banner advertising. It was bought by Google, one of Internet majors.




Profile: DSP

A Russian technology to optimize advertising budgets. In addition to providing tools for buying
direct advertising targeted by audience actions and behavior in real time, it provides to
customers access to the Russian traffic exchange. Retargeter is the first independent service
whose operations are based on the company’s technology.




Profile: DSP

Kavanga is one of the largest Runet advertising networks operating on the basis of its own
technological platform. The company was founded in 2008. Currently it integrates more than
1,000 high-quality theme-based Websites within the single advertising space. The unique
monthly coverage of the Russian audience amounts to 27 million people aged 12-54 years.




Profile: Retargeting

myThings is a European supplier of personalized behavioral banner advertising. The Company's
Moscow branch was opened in 2011. In 2012, Yandex chose myThings as its first media buying
partner to work with its own RTB platform.

The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                11
Profile: DSP, Retargeting

Soloway, a selective advertising operator has been operating in the market since 2004. It
belongs to the Internest Group of companies and uses the most advanced online advertising
developments. Advertisements are displayed within the extensive media space which
comprises hundreds of theme-based websites. The monthly audience of Soloway's media space
encompasses 31 million users.




Profile: ATD

The VivaKi Russia Group of communication agencies (until July, 2008 - Publicis Groupe Media
Eurasia) was founded in late 2005. Agencies of the Group specialize in media planning, ad
placement and advisory services. According to the Kommersant newspaper and the industry
portal AdIndex, VivaKi is the largest media buying group in Russia.




Profile: ATD

Xaxis is one of the world's largest target audience buying companies which provides services to
more than 800 advertisers and launches annually more than 300 billion ad views in the
network. The Company’s patented DMP has the largest base of unique anonymous user
profiles. In October 2012, Xaxis opened its office in Moscow as part of GroupM Russia.




The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                12
Profile: RTB Stack

Yandex is the Russian largest Internet company, its core activity being development of a search
engine. The company owns the cognominal Web-search engine and the - yandex.ru. Internet
portal. It was founded in 1997. According to Liveinternet data for October 2012, the Yandex's
share of the search market amounts to 60.7%. Yandex announced launch of its own RTB-
platform in March, 2012. Presently several DSP-systems are already connected to Yandex RTB-
system, including Yandex-owned Direct and media advertising system.




The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                13
2012 Events

In January 2012, the Network and IAB Exchange Committee released OpenRTB API 2.0
specification that contained detailed explanation of Real-Time Biding interface (RTB), necessary
interface elements and recommendations for its development.

Yandex has announced launch of its own RTB-platform in March 2012. Yandex.Direct, the
Company's media advertising placement system and myThings were connected as platform
partners. Such sites as travel.ru, forumhouse.ru, newsru.com and klerk.ru. were among its
launch partners.

The same month ADFOX started test operation of the SSP-platform based on the OpenRTB
protocol. One of the largest Russian Internet media holding companies, SUP Media which
comprises LiveJournal, Gazeta.ru, Championat.com and other resources, was the launch
partner.

In September 2012, the Facebook social network announced completion of tests of the
Facebook Exchange (FBX) RTB system. The official launch took place in early December 2012.
Sberbank, the largest Russian bank, became the first customer of the system.

In September, VKontakte social network announced launching by the end of the year of its own
retargeting system. At the initial stage, it is planned to show the social network's advertising
blocks on other sites only for authorized VKontakte users.

In late September 2012, ADFOX put the RTB-system into commercial operation for its large
clients. Today five DSP-platforms are connected to ADFOX SSP: Begun, DataMind, Kavanga,
Retargeter and Soloway.

In early November 2012, Mail.Ru started the remarketing function in its Target ad network to
identify users who have already visited the site and to show them personalized advertisements.

At the same time Tinkoff Digital announced launch of its own DataMind RTB-platform. About $
5 million is planned to be invested into the project. Yota.Play media service became the first
client of the platform.

In mid December, Between Digital's RTB-system was put into operation with open connection
for publishers.




The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                14
Advertisers

According to RealTime Trading report 2012q3 by Rubicon Project , the rating of global market
segments engaged in RTB trading operations is headed by sellers of electronics and gadgets,
financial services, travels and cars. The whole eCommerce segment is also at the top of the
rating.

Advertising Category                 % Change         Change
1. Technology & Computing               2%
2. Personal Finance                    16%
3. Travel                              21%
4. Shopping                            32%
5. Automobile                          38%
6. Business                            27%              +1
7. Arts & Entertainment                31%              +1
8. Style & Fashion                     10%              -2
9. Home & Garden                       21%
10. Food & Drink                       14%

                                                 (с) RealTime Trading report 2012q3, Rubicon Project



This data is definitely valid for the United States, where RTB has been successfully operating for
several years. In today's Russia, the main advertisers participating in auctions are the major e-
commerce representatives. For instance, Yota.Play became one of the first customers of the
platform. The tool is tested by major banks, Sberbank becoming the first client of the Facebook
Exchange in Russia.

It is no secret that DataMind created by Oleg Tinkoff, primarily if focused on promotion of the
Bank Tinkoff Credit Systems. There are other examples in the market of how forward-thinking
advertisers do not wait for external proposals but develop and advance their RTB-products.
Using corporate platforms to manage their advertising placements they create sources of
additional revenue through attraction of third-party advertisers.




The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                   15
Forecasts and figures

It’s premature to speak of specific metrics based on experimental data due to weak RTB
market. However, market players and foreign agencies giver certain Russian RTB market
development forecasts.

According to experts, referring to eMarketer, by 2015, the RTB market in Russia will reach $ 720
million to make up 18% of the whole Russian Internet advertising market estimated at $ 4
billion by analysts. This estimate of the RTB share raises doubts due to the fact that the RTB
market in Russia will become financially established only in 2013, and based on assessments of
Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC) and Higher School of Economics, the
entire Internet advertising market in 2012 will amount to $ 1.8 billion, the RTB part of which
being negligible.

iTech researchers make their forecast of the RTB-sales share of the display advertising market
in Russia in comparison with European countries:




                            Source: iTech estimates, based on data by Econsultancy (2011), IDC (2011)

According to forecasts of the majority of Russian experts, in 2013, RTB can occupy about 5% of
the display advertising market. During discussions, $ 50 million are mentioned as a forecast for
2013. According to market participants, major brands already apply to them while budgeting
for RTB.

The main problem faced currently by RTB market players in Russia is the lack of data on
consumer interests of users, which restricts personal targeting. Unlike the USA, Russia has no



The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                    16
third party data market. Therefore, each company collects its own data (first party data) and
uses them to implement, for example, retargeting techniques.

In this case, adequate amount of traffic put up for sale is also required given the targeting
multiple settings. Otherwise, buyers will simply not find users to meet all the parameters. The
more active the auction platforms will sell their traffic through RTB, the more likely their
audience will be in demand, and advertisers will achieve the expected effect of the campaign.

It is not surprising that it is major players representing RTB Stack, first of all, Google who can
boast of the first successes in the RTB market. However, they have their own problems. First of
all, the internal auction is “overheated” due to the large number of customers and corporate
purchases through AdSense. That is why the market is interested in having no monopoly on RTB
technologies and no large numbers of players participating in auctions.

Better transparency of the advertising space purchase and sale mechanism, improvement of
tools and, more importantly, growing popularity of technology due to its equitable revenue
allocation between online platforms will be among the RTB market growth drivers in Russia.

The main success factors of RTB-platforms will be the number of connected SSP and DSP
partners, pinpointed targeting by socio-demographic and cost-behavioral factors, system
transparency and efficiency.




The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                  17
Conclusions and outlooks
RTB has adopted the best search and contextual advertising features, such as auction pricing
and personalized targeting. Auction pricing creates fair competitive environment, and targeting
by search query or key words replaced the whole range of socio-behavioral techniques.
Meanwhile the range of forms of impact on the audience expanded greatly. RTB technology
development in Russia will have a positive impact on performance of all its members:
advertisers, sites and technical agency companies.



RTB for advertisers
   o Due to an RTB-auction advertisers are given the highly targeted audience that reliably
     corresponds to the specified parameters. Under the RTB scheme, one will not have to
     assume that appropriate users are more likely to see ad at the selected sites as the
     system will ensure the banner is demonstrated only to the target audience.

   o That leads quite logically to increase of conversion and effectiveness of advertising
     campaigns. Use of consumer data, retargeting and other technical capabilities leads to
     qualitative change in the audience reaction to advertisements.

   o An advertiser will be able to monitor the advertising campaign results and adjust its
     implementation process in real time. That ensures flexible approach to exercising of
     control over own ad views.

   o Small advertisers who never had an opportunity to advertise at popular Internet
     advertising platforms will get access to them. Platforms share their audiences with a
     large number of interested buyers due to channeling of remnant traffic sale through
     RTB-auction.



RTB for Publishers
   o RTB will become a good addition to the basic direct advertising sale channel. Publishers
     can make more money by selling own remnant traffic concurrently with sale of package
     offers to major buyers. It is virtually impossible to effectively manage sales of remnant
     traffic without RTB technology.

   o Each ad view sold through an auction is sold not at a fixed price but at the highest
     offered price. RTB can considerably increase the value of the website audience.
     Currently not the platforms look for traffic buyers, but advertisers compete for the right
     to show their ads. The platform, in turn, establishes the minimum ad view price.

The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                 18
o In this case the risks are minimal - the SSP-platform interface assumes control over
     those who advertise at the platform and allows blocking unwanted categories of
     advertisers or specific traffic buyers.

   o The RTB technology avoids charging additional fees to resellers.

   o High-quality targeting technologies allow displaying advertisements only to the
     appropriate audience and thus increasing conversion, performance and growing
     interest of advertisers to the platform.



RTB for Agencies:
   o Inclusion of RTB technology-based products into the own range of products allows
     advertisers to provide unique services related to specific scenarios, dynamic creativity,
     landing-page. Agencies become carriers of expertise and greatly expand their
     capabilities.



RTB for Technological Companies
   o Emergence of the RTB market creates a new competitive environment for technological
     companies. Techniques to analyse user behavior algorithms are required for the RTB-
     ecosystem to function and develop. Companies that specialize on creating retargeting
     tools, behavioral funnels and related technologies will get the second wind.

   o A new civilized data trading market emerges. Any company including Internet sites and
     services can enter that market.



If all RTB market participants in Russia are interested in that, we can watch its development
rate comparable to the ones in Western countries.




The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                    19
Attachment

Global RTB Market and Major European and American Markets


Real-Time Bidding technology was set up in life due to support of the Google Company that
since 2009, has invested more than one billion dollars into development and promotion of the
technology. Four years ago RTB was definitely a new technology, and not many companies
believed in its prospects. The fact is that there were numerous examples in online advertising
when new, seemingly breakthrough technologies turned out to be just overblown information
bubbles. They received strong experts’ support but did not survive in the market largely due to
the fact that advertisers did not believe in them.

Due to the Google’s confident involvement into the technology, major advertisers put their
trust in the technology though not immediately. Developments of the Admeld Company
acquired by Google formed the basis of the technological innovation, and a year later more
than 78% of sites and 17% of Google partner network advertisers moved over to this model. It
is not surprising that this Internet giant currently occupies the largest share of the RTB market.

RTB reached its zenith particularly in 2012. The market revenues increased from 0.99 to 1.9
billion dollars, and the average CPM factor amounted to 3.17 dollars. According to IDC and
eMarketer estimates, in 2012, the RTB share in the total Internet advertising market reached
20%.

The IDC research agency is the most optimistic in its estimates of the RTB market. According to
it, the average annual growth rate of the RTB market will exceed 50%, and that allows it to
forecast the market growth from $ 1.4 billion in 2011 to $ 13.9 billion in 2016. Forrester
Research makes similarly optimistic forecasts; according to them, the average cost per
thousand views of advertising material in the RTB using networks will increase from $3.17 in
2012 to $6.64 in 2017. According to Parks Associates analysts, the RTB share throughout the
online advertising market will reach 50% in the same year.

Fast growth of RTB popularity on the US market of online advertising is explained not only by
high development level of the market as such, but by certain features of the American law and
unique attitude towards consumer data. It is no secret that the Google AdWords system
succeeded in its time due to precise targeting, but targeting itself became possible only after a
period of lengthy and thorough Google users data collection. There is much more room for
maneuver and use of consumer data in the US legal environment than in Europe.

The US leadership in the RTB-advertising market is also explained by the fact that large national
companies became interested in the technology. According to Rubicon assessments, AT&T,

The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                   20
Sprint Nextel, Verizon operators, Toyota, Chrysler, Ford automobile manufacturing
corporations, Southwest Airlines, Airtram Airlines as well as the American Express banking
payment system and the Unilever multinational corporation became major advertisers in the
RTB market.

The situation is different in Europe. For example, according to Rubicon data, in France among
the RTB largest advertisers are Zalando, Price Minister, La Redoute, 3 Suisses Internet-shops,
Orange, Bouyges Telecom, Vivendi operators, financial companies Buyster, Western Union as
well as the Gaz of France Company. In the UK, major advertisers are represented by the
telecommunication sector and car manufacturers.

The largest growth of US advertisers’ spend is noted in the following categories: Cars, Work and
Career, Education, Public and Social Services. In Europe, by contrast, the fastest growing
advertising spend is linked to products and services relating to pets, health, real estate, religion,
and food.

According to many market representatives, 2012 became the most important landmark in RTB
development. It was the year when RTB technology was adopted by major advertisers
interested in the international coverage of their audience, and prominent sites which became
confident that it was RTB that made the most efficient use of their advertising capacities in
Internet resources. That view is supported by eMarketer experts who note the consistent and
stable growth of the RTB share in the total online advertising market; according to their data,
the RTB share grew from 4% in 2010 to 8% in 2011 and 13% in 2012. Moreover, according to
their estimates, RTB will occupy 28% of the online advertising market by 2016.

In the past year, the RTB technology was recognized in the North American and European
markets, in the next few years this technology can radically change the online advertising
market worldwide. The main areas for expansion are BRIC countries where the largest share of
the world's Internet users is concentrated, but the online advertising market there makes its
first steps. However, the market growth rates in BRIC countries allow expressing optimism in
relation to RTB prospects in these regions.




The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                                     21
References

OpenRTB API Specification Version 2.1, 2012, IAB

Real-Time Bidding in the United States and Western Europe, 2010–2015, 2012, IDC

Rubicon Project Marketplace Report – Q3 2012, 2012, Rubicon Project

Real-Time Bidding Poised to Make Up Quarter of All Display Spending, 2012, eMarketer.com

RTB Insight: Trading Desk — революция в управлении медийной рекламой, 2013, Cossa

Google Integrates Admeld Into DoubleClick AdX, Preps ‘Unified’ Publisher Solution, 2012,
Adexchanger.com

Global RTB Ad Impression Growth Continued to Slow in Q4, 2013, Marketingcharts.com

Что за революция грядет на рекламном рынке и что такое RTB, 2012, Firma.ru

Why RTB is a game-changer for digital ads, 2011, Marketingweek.co.uk

RTB Hits The Mainstream, 2011, Forrester Research, Inc.




The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013                                               22
Russian RTB market in 2012




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  • 1. Russian RTB market in 2012 February 2013
  • 2. Table of contents Table of contents........................................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 3 RTB Development Prerequisites in Russian Online Advertising Market ....................................................... 5 RTB principles of operations ......................................................................................................................... 6 Russian RTB market ....................................................................................................................................... 8 RTB market players ................................................................................................................................... 8 2012 Events .............................................................................................................................................14 Advertisers ..............................................................................................................................................15 Forecasts and figures ..............................................................................................................................16 Conclusions and Outlooks ...........................................................................................................................18 RTB for Advertisers..............................................................................................................................18 RTB for Publishers ...............................................................................................................................18 RTB for Agencies..................................................................................................................................19 RTB for Technological Companies .......................................................................................................19 Attachment .................................................................................................................................................20 Global RTB Market and Major European and American Markets...........................................................20 References...............................................................................................................................................22 The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 2
  • 3. Introduction According to the recent study by the American company Accordant Media, Russia has been named one of the countries with the highest RTB market development rate in 2012. It entered the Top 15 list of RTB-markets where in the 4th quarter of 2012, online advertising exchanges showed the highest growth rate y-o-y. It is not surprising, since the last year can be described as the year of birth of Real-time Bidding in Russia, and only by the end of that year the ecosystem which is expected to gain momentum was formed. This review provides an understanding of the current state of advertising RTB-products in Russia and tracks market development in 2012, explains the RTB mechanism to advertisers and market experts and highlights their expected implementation effects. When creating it, ADFOX Company experts used public data, studies of Russian and foreign companies, market experts’ opinions as well as their own assessments and judgments. The RTB protocol regulates automated trading of digital media on a wide range of technology platforms, devices and advertising products where real-time pricing is a prerequisite. The RTB market comprises all players who provide media, technologies and services that interact according to the RTB protocol and advertising products sold within the protocol framework. Worldwide, the RTB market as an independent phenomenon emerged in 2009 when the major players of the global online advertising market, firstly, Google started investing into that technology. The RTB technology allows adjusting the rights of all advertising market players - advertisers, publishers and advertising technologies, meeting the interests of each party and delivering high efficiency of advertising campaigns. According to eMarketer and IDC estimates, the global RTB market has been growing by 50-80% a year, and the growth is not so much due to opening of new markets, such as Russia, Turkey and China, but also due to intensified use of the technology by market players. The main advantage of the technology is automatic setting of fair price for an advertising contract not affected by human factor. Such approach to pricing allows balancing between the interests of publishers seeking to maximize their advertising revenue and advertisers wishing to ensure maximum efficiency of advertising campaigns for a fair value. The RTB ecosystem has just formed in Russia. In 2012, all major players of the Russian online advertising market announced launches of their own RTB-services and use of the RTB protocol to optimize placement of ads. An RTB working group was formed in IAB Russia and most of the market players take part in its meetings. In 2012, the basic standards of operation of the RTB- ecosystem in Russia were put forward for discussion and approval and steps to develop the market through joint efforts of players were outlined. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 3
  • 4. This review provides data, analysis of developments, forecasts, and conclusions. Unless specified otherwise, this information represents an expert opinion and assessment provided by ADFOX experts. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 4
  • 5. RTB Development Prerequisites in Russian Online Advertising Market The RTB technology started its triumphal march around the world in USA, moving later to Europe and reaching Russia in early 2012. Among the main prerequisites for the technology to emerge were the following: o Development of behavioral targeting systems and Big Data application o Successful experience in the search advertising market where auction pricing is one of the most attractive features for an advertiser o Demand of Internet publishers for a tool to effectively manage monetization of the remnant traffic o Advertisers’ desire to get qualitative, highly-targeted audience and flexibly manage their own advertising campaigns o Advertisers’ intention to reach new markets and audiences while maintaining control over pricing A number of companies of all sizes announced their launch of RTB into commercial operation during 2012. Western players (Google, Facebook, Crimtan, Criteo) are entering the Russian market , local market players (Yandex, ADFOX, AdRiver) develop their own products, new companies emerge their central technologies focusing on the RTB protocol (Between, DataMind). But 2013 will see the real kick-off for RTB in Russia, when market players will not only test the new technology, but also involve the largest advertisers into its usage. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 5
  • 6. RTB principles of operations RTB (Real Time Bidding) is a technology of auction-based sale and purchase of ad views. The RTB auction takes place in real time: while a user downloads a web page, the system is holding an ad view auction. An ad view request is sent to all bidders. In a split second DSP- systems should determine the value of such an ad view and place a bid. The auction winner gets the right to demonstrate his ad. The auction winner pays the second highest proposed price. The "second price" auction is typical for auctions when participants do not know each other's bids. The idea behind such an auction is that participants do not need to be overly cautious when placing their bids, and so they offer their real prices. Each participant knows that if he wins, he will definitely pay less than he offered. So he simply states the price which coincides with his personal assessment of the lot. The RTB ecosystem functions according to the Open RTB protocol developed under the auspices of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), a public organization. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 6
  • 7. Source: OpenRTB API Specification Version 2.1 RTB Market Players: DSP (Demand Side Platform) is a platform that allows agencies and advertisers to purchase online ads at different ad exchanges SSP (Sell Side Platform) or Exchange is a platform for website owners that allows automating sales of traffic to make more money through those sales using the auction-based pricing mechanism. ATD (Agency Trading Desk) is a centralized platform for advertising purchase by various advertising models. DMP (Data Management Platform) - platforms to manage the data which allow you organizing, segmenting and analysing huge amounts of information used for targeting of advertising messages with the purpose of delivering of the most sought after and useful for each viewer ad at the particular moment. Ad Networks - intermediaries between advertisers and publishers. They collect media sites into a single pool and make it easy to advertise, while accumulating expertise and facilitate selection of the best options to meet the demand. Data Brokers are organizations and services that collect and sell information about users’ consumer interests to improve accuracy of targeting of advertising messages. Ad Verification & Brand Protection means ad post-verification and brand protection against ill- designed and posted advertisements. Ad Servers are technological companies that provide software, infrastructure and tools for advertisers and publishers to manage and optimize placement of ads in interactive media. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 7
  • 8. Russian RTB market RTB market players Profile: SSP, AdServer ADFOX has been operating in the online advertising market since 2005. In November 2012, ADFOX entered the RTB market and opened its own platform for commercial use to optimize advertising revenue from placement of advertisements at ADFOX SSP websites. Currently, ADFOX SSP completed technical integration with Begun, DataMind, Kavanga, Retargeter and Soloway systems. Ad networks and DSP are connected through the IAB Open RTB API Specification V2.0 protocol Profile: DSP The company was founded in 2006 in Germany. Currently it is one of the leading independent European companies engaged in advertising based on consumer data. The company offers a large assortment of products for websites, agencies and advertisers. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 8
  • 9. Profile: AdServer, Data Supplier Online ad operating system AdRiver began its work in March 2001 and is presently one of the leaders in the Russian market of technological solutions relating to online advertising. AdRiver belongs to the Internest Group of companies. Internest’s portfolio of brands also includes a selective advertising operator Soloway and a banner exchange network RLE. Profile: DSP Begun is the first Russian contextual advertising service with pay for performance and auction pricing. The company has been operating in the market since 2002.Begun is an authorized reseller of Google AdWords in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The monthly audience of the Begun network is 27.7 million users. Begun is integrated with major SSPs represented in the Russian market. Profile: SSP Between Digital is a young Russian profitability management system that allows websites to effectively sell online advertising using the RTB technology. It announced its commercial launch in December 2012 and was operating in the test mode since May. Profile: DSP Crimtan is a Russian branch of the British Crimson Tangerine Company, a player in the media Internet advertising market. The high-tech network of behavioral advertising created on the basis of its own platform. The company provides advertisers with Internet-marketing opportunities using profiling, Internet audience segmentation and targeting as well as optimization. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 9
  • 10. Profile: DSP Criteo was founded in Paris in 2005, and currently positions itself as a personalized retargeting operator. The company has more than 3 million customers, the core of which is made of major online retailers. Criteo operates in more than 30 countries around the world including Russia. Profile: DSP A project launched by Tinkoff Digital created by Oleg Tinkoff and Goldman Sachs in 2012 for Internet investing purposes. Commercial operations were announced in December. Yota.Play became one of the first customers of the platform. Profile: Retargeting eTargeting is a young technological company engaged in studying of the Internet audience and selling of targeting and retargeting solutions. The company employs dynamic, local targeting and a number of other instruments. Profile: RTB Stack The company was founded in 1998; it has been operating in Russia since 2005. Google is the leading web corporation in all major global markets. The company has been developing RTB since 2009, and by now it has invested more than one billion dollars into development and promotion of the technology. In Russia, Google has been offering RTB products since the beginning of 2012. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 10
  • 11. Profile: DSP Invite Media was founded in 2007 in the USA. The company owns a universal platform to buy banner advertising. It was bought by Google, one of Internet majors. Profile: DSP A Russian technology to optimize advertising budgets. In addition to providing tools for buying direct advertising targeted by audience actions and behavior in real time, it provides to customers access to the Russian traffic exchange. Retargeter is the first independent service whose operations are based on the company’s technology. Profile: DSP Kavanga is one of the largest Runet advertising networks operating on the basis of its own technological platform. The company was founded in 2008. Currently it integrates more than 1,000 high-quality theme-based Websites within the single advertising space. The unique monthly coverage of the Russian audience amounts to 27 million people aged 12-54 years. Profile: Retargeting myThings is a European supplier of personalized behavioral banner advertising. The Company's Moscow branch was opened in 2011. In 2012, Yandex chose myThings as its first media buying partner to work with its own RTB platform. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 11
  • 12. Profile: DSP, Retargeting Soloway, a selective advertising operator has been operating in the market since 2004. It belongs to the Internest Group of companies and uses the most advanced online advertising developments. Advertisements are displayed within the extensive media space which comprises hundreds of theme-based websites. The monthly audience of Soloway's media space encompasses 31 million users. Profile: ATD The VivaKi Russia Group of communication agencies (until July, 2008 - Publicis Groupe Media Eurasia) was founded in late 2005. Agencies of the Group specialize in media planning, ad placement and advisory services. According to the Kommersant newspaper and the industry portal AdIndex, VivaKi is the largest media buying group in Russia. Profile: ATD Xaxis is one of the world's largest target audience buying companies which provides services to more than 800 advertisers and launches annually more than 300 billion ad views in the network. The Company’s patented DMP has the largest base of unique anonymous user profiles. In October 2012, Xaxis opened its office in Moscow as part of GroupM Russia. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 12
  • 13. Profile: RTB Stack Yandex is the Russian largest Internet company, its core activity being development of a search engine. The company owns the cognominal Web-search engine and the - yandex.ru. Internet portal. It was founded in 1997. According to Liveinternet data for October 2012, the Yandex's share of the search market amounts to 60.7%. Yandex announced launch of its own RTB- platform in March, 2012. Presently several DSP-systems are already connected to Yandex RTB- system, including Yandex-owned Direct and media advertising system. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 13
  • 14. 2012 Events In January 2012, the Network and IAB Exchange Committee released OpenRTB API 2.0 specification that contained detailed explanation of Real-Time Biding interface (RTB), necessary interface elements and recommendations for its development. Yandex has announced launch of its own RTB-platform in March 2012. Yandex.Direct, the Company's media advertising placement system and myThings were connected as platform partners. Such sites as travel.ru, forumhouse.ru, newsru.com and klerk.ru. were among its launch partners. The same month ADFOX started test operation of the SSP-platform based on the OpenRTB protocol. One of the largest Russian Internet media holding companies, SUP Media which comprises LiveJournal, Gazeta.ru, Championat.com and other resources, was the launch partner. In September 2012, the Facebook social network announced completion of tests of the Facebook Exchange (FBX) RTB system. The official launch took place in early December 2012. Sberbank, the largest Russian bank, became the first customer of the system. In September, VKontakte social network announced launching by the end of the year of its own retargeting system. At the initial stage, it is planned to show the social network's advertising blocks on other sites only for authorized VKontakte users. In late September 2012, ADFOX put the RTB-system into commercial operation for its large clients. Today five DSP-platforms are connected to ADFOX SSP: Begun, DataMind, Kavanga, Retargeter and Soloway. In early November 2012, Mail.Ru started the remarketing function in its Target ad network to identify users who have already visited the site and to show them personalized advertisements. At the same time Tinkoff Digital announced launch of its own DataMind RTB-platform. About $ 5 million is planned to be invested into the project. Yota.Play media service became the first client of the platform. In mid December, Between Digital's RTB-system was put into operation with open connection for publishers. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 14
  • 15. Advertisers According to RealTime Trading report 2012q3 by Rubicon Project , the rating of global market segments engaged in RTB trading operations is headed by sellers of electronics and gadgets, financial services, travels and cars. The whole eCommerce segment is also at the top of the rating. Advertising Category % Change Change 1. Technology & Computing 2% 2. Personal Finance 16% 3. Travel 21% 4. Shopping 32% 5. Automobile 38% 6. Business 27% +1 7. Arts & Entertainment 31% +1 8. Style & Fashion 10% -2 9. Home & Garden 21% 10. Food & Drink 14% (с) RealTime Trading report 2012q3, Rubicon Project This data is definitely valid for the United States, where RTB has been successfully operating for several years. In today's Russia, the main advertisers participating in auctions are the major e- commerce representatives. For instance, Yota.Play became one of the first customers of the platform. The tool is tested by major banks, Sberbank becoming the first client of the Facebook Exchange in Russia. It is no secret that DataMind created by Oleg Tinkoff, primarily if focused on promotion of the Bank Tinkoff Credit Systems. There are other examples in the market of how forward-thinking advertisers do not wait for external proposals but develop and advance their RTB-products. Using corporate platforms to manage their advertising placements they create sources of additional revenue through attraction of third-party advertisers. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 15
  • 16. Forecasts and figures It’s premature to speak of specific metrics based on experimental data due to weak RTB market. However, market players and foreign agencies giver certain Russian RTB market development forecasts. According to experts, referring to eMarketer, by 2015, the RTB market in Russia will reach $ 720 million to make up 18% of the whole Russian Internet advertising market estimated at $ 4 billion by analysts. This estimate of the RTB share raises doubts due to the fact that the RTB market in Russia will become financially established only in 2013, and based on assessments of Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC) and Higher School of Economics, the entire Internet advertising market in 2012 will amount to $ 1.8 billion, the RTB part of which being negligible. iTech researchers make their forecast of the RTB-sales share of the display advertising market in Russia in comparison with European countries: Source: iTech estimates, based on data by Econsultancy (2011), IDC (2011) According to forecasts of the majority of Russian experts, in 2013, RTB can occupy about 5% of the display advertising market. During discussions, $ 50 million are mentioned as a forecast for 2013. According to market participants, major brands already apply to them while budgeting for RTB. The main problem faced currently by RTB market players in Russia is the lack of data on consumer interests of users, which restricts personal targeting. Unlike the USA, Russia has no The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 16
  • 17. third party data market. Therefore, each company collects its own data (first party data) and uses them to implement, for example, retargeting techniques. In this case, adequate amount of traffic put up for sale is also required given the targeting multiple settings. Otherwise, buyers will simply not find users to meet all the parameters. The more active the auction platforms will sell their traffic through RTB, the more likely their audience will be in demand, and advertisers will achieve the expected effect of the campaign. It is not surprising that it is major players representing RTB Stack, first of all, Google who can boast of the first successes in the RTB market. However, they have their own problems. First of all, the internal auction is “overheated” due to the large number of customers and corporate purchases through AdSense. That is why the market is interested in having no monopoly on RTB technologies and no large numbers of players participating in auctions. Better transparency of the advertising space purchase and sale mechanism, improvement of tools and, more importantly, growing popularity of technology due to its equitable revenue allocation between online platforms will be among the RTB market growth drivers in Russia. The main success factors of RTB-platforms will be the number of connected SSP and DSP partners, pinpointed targeting by socio-demographic and cost-behavioral factors, system transparency and efficiency. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 17
  • 18. Conclusions and outlooks RTB has adopted the best search and contextual advertising features, such as auction pricing and personalized targeting. Auction pricing creates fair competitive environment, and targeting by search query or key words replaced the whole range of socio-behavioral techniques. Meanwhile the range of forms of impact on the audience expanded greatly. RTB technology development in Russia will have a positive impact on performance of all its members: advertisers, sites and technical agency companies. RTB for advertisers o Due to an RTB-auction advertisers are given the highly targeted audience that reliably corresponds to the specified parameters. Under the RTB scheme, one will not have to assume that appropriate users are more likely to see ad at the selected sites as the system will ensure the banner is demonstrated only to the target audience. o That leads quite logically to increase of conversion and effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Use of consumer data, retargeting and other technical capabilities leads to qualitative change in the audience reaction to advertisements. o An advertiser will be able to monitor the advertising campaign results and adjust its implementation process in real time. That ensures flexible approach to exercising of control over own ad views. o Small advertisers who never had an opportunity to advertise at popular Internet advertising platforms will get access to them. Platforms share their audiences with a large number of interested buyers due to channeling of remnant traffic sale through RTB-auction. RTB for Publishers o RTB will become a good addition to the basic direct advertising sale channel. Publishers can make more money by selling own remnant traffic concurrently with sale of package offers to major buyers. It is virtually impossible to effectively manage sales of remnant traffic without RTB technology. o Each ad view sold through an auction is sold not at a fixed price but at the highest offered price. RTB can considerably increase the value of the website audience. Currently not the platforms look for traffic buyers, but advertisers compete for the right to show their ads. The platform, in turn, establishes the minimum ad view price. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 18
  • 19. o In this case the risks are minimal - the SSP-platform interface assumes control over those who advertise at the platform and allows blocking unwanted categories of advertisers or specific traffic buyers. o The RTB technology avoids charging additional fees to resellers. o High-quality targeting technologies allow displaying advertisements only to the appropriate audience and thus increasing conversion, performance and growing interest of advertisers to the platform. RTB for Agencies: o Inclusion of RTB technology-based products into the own range of products allows advertisers to provide unique services related to specific scenarios, dynamic creativity, landing-page. Agencies become carriers of expertise and greatly expand their capabilities. RTB for Technological Companies o Emergence of the RTB market creates a new competitive environment for technological companies. Techniques to analyse user behavior algorithms are required for the RTB- ecosystem to function and develop. Companies that specialize on creating retargeting tools, behavioral funnels and related technologies will get the second wind. o A new civilized data trading market emerges. Any company including Internet sites and services can enter that market. If all RTB market participants in Russia are interested in that, we can watch its development rate comparable to the ones in Western countries. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 19
  • 20. Attachment Global RTB Market and Major European and American Markets Real-Time Bidding technology was set up in life due to support of the Google Company that since 2009, has invested more than one billion dollars into development and promotion of the technology. Four years ago RTB was definitely a new technology, and not many companies believed in its prospects. The fact is that there were numerous examples in online advertising when new, seemingly breakthrough technologies turned out to be just overblown information bubbles. They received strong experts’ support but did not survive in the market largely due to the fact that advertisers did not believe in them. Due to the Google’s confident involvement into the technology, major advertisers put their trust in the technology though not immediately. Developments of the Admeld Company acquired by Google formed the basis of the technological innovation, and a year later more than 78% of sites and 17% of Google partner network advertisers moved over to this model. It is not surprising that this Internet giant currently occupies the largest share of the RTB market. RTB reached its zenith particularly in 2012. The market revenues increased from 0.99 to 1.9 billion dollars, and the average CPM factor amounted to 3.17 dollars. According to IDC and eMarketer estimates, in 2012, the RTB share in the total Internet advertising market reached 20%. The IDC research agency is the most optimistic in its estimates of the RTB market. According to it, the average annual growth rate of the RTB market will exceed 50%, and that allows it to forecast the market growth from $ 1.4 billion in 2011 to $ 13.9 billion in 2016. Forrester Research makes similarly optimistic forecasts; according to them, the average cost per thousand views of advertising material in the RTB using networks will increase from $3.17 in 2012 to $6.64 in 2017. According to Parks Associates analysts, the RTB share throughout the online advertising market will reach 50% in the same year. Fast growth of RTB popularity on the US market of online advertising is explained not only by high development level of the market as such, but by certain features of the American law and unique attitude towards consumer data. It is no secret that the Google AdWords system succeeded in its time due to precise targeting, but targeting itself became possible only after a period of lengthy and thorough Google users data collection. There is much more room for maneuver and use of consumer data in the US legal environment than in Europe. The US leadership in the RTB-advertising market is also explained by the fact that large national companies became interested in the technology. According to Rubicon assessments, AT&T, The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 20
  • 21. Sprint Nextel, Verizon operators, Toyota, Chrysler, Ford automobile manufacturing corporations, Southwest Airlines, Airtram Airlines as well as the American Express banking payment system and the Unilever multinational corporation became major advertisers in the RTB market. The situation is different in Europe. For example, according to Rubicon data, in France among the RTB largest advertisers are Zalando, Price Minister, La Redoute, 3 Suisses Internet-shops, Orange, Bouyges Telecom, Vivendi operators, financial companies Buyster, Western Union as well as the Gaz of France Company. In the UK, major advertisers are represented by the telecommunication sector and car manufacturers. The largest growth of US advertisers’ spend is noted in the following categories: Cars, Work and Career, Education, Public and Social Services. In Europe, by contrast, the fastest growing advertising spend is linked to products and services relating to pets, health, real estate, religion, and food. According to many market representatives, 2012 became the most important landmark in RTB development. It was the year when RTB technology was adopted by major advertisers interested in the international coverage of their audience, and prominent sites which became confident that it was RTB that made the most efficient use of their advertising capacities in Internet resources. That view is supported by eMarketer experts who note the consistent and stable growth of the RTB share in the total online advertising market; according to their data, the RTB share grew from 4% in 2010 to 8% in 2011 and 13% in 2012. Moreover, according to their estimates, RTB will occupy 28% of the online advertising market by 2016. In the past year, the RTB technology was recognized in the North American and European markets, in the next few years this technology can radically change the online advertising market worldwide. The main areas for expansion are BRIC countries where the largest share of the world's Internet users is concentrated, but the online advertising market there makes its first steps. However, the market growth rates in BRIC countries allow expressing optimism in relation to RTB prospects in these regions. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 21
  • 22. References OpenRTB API Specification Version 2.1, 2012, IAB Real-Time Bidding in the United States and Western Europe, 2010–2015, 2012, IDC Rubicon Project Marketplace Report – Q3 2012, 2012, Rubicon Project Real-Time Bidding Poised to Make Up Quarter of All Display Spending, 2012, eMarketer.com RTB Insight: Trading Desk — революция в управлении медийной рекламой, 2013, Cossa Google Integrates Admeld Into DoubleClick AdX, Preps ‘Unified’ Publisher Solution, 2012, Adexchanger.com Global RTB Ad Impression Growth Continued to Slow in Q4, 2013, Marketingcharts.com Что за революция грядет на рекламном рынке и что такое RTB, 2012, Firma.ru Why RTB is a game-changer for digital ads, 2011, Marketingweek.co.uk RTB Hits The Mainstream, 2011, Forrester Research, Inc. The Russian RTB market in 2012, ©ADFOX, 2013 22
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