Magnite vs. Simpli.fi

Rubicon Project is super appropriate for Publisher monetization. They excel as a supply side partner. Rubicon Project is less appropriate for Advertising buying tools. Their demand side tools have a way to go for development.

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Simpli.fi, in my opinion, is the leader in programmatic branding campaigns for small to medium sized businesses. Large national brands with six figure brands can afford to look elsewhere, even though Simpli.fi is adept and conducting campaigns for big business as well. Simpli.fi does LOCAL very well.

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• Cleanest supply ecosystem. They are skilled at processing inventory and bids in order to streamline monetization and drive yield.
• Client support is excellent. Client services is deeply invested in your business and successful at driving key business goals within your organization when working on your behalf.

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• Their geo-fencing capabilities are by far one of the best in the market. The reporting capabilities on the back end for geo-fencing is great & the way they can get down to a pinpoint location is great.
• Having access to the amount of exchanges that they partner with is great for a small agency that wouldn't normally have that reach.

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• If possible to update the reporting to have less delay time on the data.
• The reporting portal cuts off the bid request data after a period of time.
• The UI seems to be a bit slower lately.

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• Perhaps the biggest weakness Simpli.fi has is in reporting. Although near real time campaign data is available at any time, they lack a forward facing dashboard we can share with our clients. The lack of a customization on customer campaign dashboards has more than once become a negative factor in winning a sale against a competitor.
• When we first started working with Simpli.fi, we could add Facebook to campaigns and use the Simpli.fi reporting tool to measure results. That capability disappeared shortly after implementation. It would be nice to use Simpli.fi tools to integrate display and social campaigns into a single dashboard.

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• Rubicon Project's deal creation is very simple and fast so multiple deals can be simply created instantly.
• Rubicon Project's customer service is helpful and very responsive so issues usually get fixed instantly.
• Rubicon Project's reporting portal is easy to use and has multiple metrics which allow you to have a detailed report.

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We have done a lot of research on many other vendors that offer the same or even more as Simpli.fi and have found a great fit for our business. There are many other options out there for programmatic buying! My advice to you is do your research. Don't just jump into bed with one without knowing all of the facts. Ask questions. Do some digging. And NEVER take anything they say at face value. They are there to sell you the product and if you move forward, you will for sure be disappointed

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• Rubicon Project has made it easier to optimize so that we could get the fullest ROI on our inventory through their alerts on which deal needs troubleshooting.
• They also send a daily report which notifies you which advertisers have low render rate which is very helpful when figuring which creatives need to troubleshooting.

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• Very good on ROI
• Our campaign performance is normally very good.
• Customer support is very responsive.

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