HOW ZEE MEDIA SAW A 40% INCREASE IN OVERALL PROGRAMMATIC REVENUE BY ADOPTING PUBMATIC'S OPENWRAP
Zee Media is one of India’s largest news networks with 14 news channels and 20 digital brands in 12 different languages touching more than 220 million viewers across digital (both web and mobile) and satellite TV mediums.
THE CHALLENGE
Header bidding wrappers give publishers increased control of their programmatic revenue, but they can be challenging to set up and maintain. Zee Media had initially relied solely on a well-known, proprietary black box solution but sought to diversify monetization through additional header bidding solutions. They reached out to PubMatic to help them navigate the challenges of header bidding.
THE SOLUTION: PUBMATIC'S OPENWRAP
PubMatic’s OpenWrap is a premium wrapper solution built on Prebid that gives publishers access to innovative custom management tools and performance optimization insights to unlock new revenue opportunities. Migrating to the latest version of OpenWrap .js API and OpenWrap AMP — for web/mobile web and AMP respectively — aims to deliver improved wrapper performance for publishers.
Adopting OpenWrap .js API and OpenWrap AMP allowed Zee Media to upgrade to their programmatic stack to increase demand competition and bid density (bids per impression), ultimately leading to better monetization.
The PubMatic team walked Zee Media through the process of becoming operational and provided on-the-ground engineering support throughout the integration stages. PubMatic continue to run end-to-end tests ensuring consistent, positive revenue growth for Zee Media.