Adobe Acquires Auditude to Capitalize on Exploding Video Advertising Opportunity
Auditude platform empowers publishers to maximize value of video content
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that it has acquired Auditude Inc. Auditude is a leader in video ad management and monetization technologies for premium publishers and media companies. With this acquisition, Adobe can now offer an end-to-end platform for authoring, publishing, analyzing and monetizing digital video experiences that will allow Adobe customers to maximize the quality of their video content across all IP-enabled devices.
Supporting video ad management and monetization delivered via an open architecture platform, Auditude lets premium publishers and media companies efficiently create a high-quality, TV-like, multi-device advertising experience that is an essential component to viewer loyalty and attracting major brand advertisers. Industry-leading features of the Auditude platform include: easy integration into content management and other video operations systems; outstanding targeting capabilities; flexible ad placement and ad product offerings; intuitive sales rights management; access to and control of incremental advertising demand; and efficient cross-device workflow.
Auditude’s advertising server platform meshes neatly with Adobe’s video technologies, such as Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5 software and Adobe Pass. The Flash Media Server family of products delivers media to multiple platforms – including Flash, HTML and native apps – with a choice of powerful protocols that can save significant bandwidth costs and lighten network load. In addition, Adobe Pass, the industry leading TV Everywhere Platform, is enabling premium content publishers to securely bring large catalogues of programming online. The combination of Adobe Flash Media Server, Adobe Pass and Auditude creates the most comprehensive solution for the world’s leading content publishers, broadcasters and brandsto encode video once, securely deliver their content across platforms on-demand and efficiently monetize it.
Adobe also plans to integrate Auditude with the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, which consists of integrated analytics and optimization products to collect and unleash the power of customer insight. For example, using the Suite, customers can identify the most effective marketing and content delivery strategies and ad placements as well as create relevant, personalized and consistent customer experiences across channels, such as onsite, video, display, email, social and mobile. The Suite enables Adobe customers to better maximize marketing ROI and advertising yield, which ultimately can positively impact the bottom line.
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