Video specialists
Overall Satisfaction with Vungle
We have worked with Vungle as an ad network and as an exchange as well. They had a lot of volume as an ad network, but their exchange business is still developing. They are video only or at least 90% of their inventory is video. They have good coverage on the US but not so much in the rest of the world.
Pros
- You can work on a CPI basis on the network level.
- Strong in the US. A lot of inventory there.
- SSP integration very fast and good technical team.
Cons
- Product development. They have not evolved their product significantly still offering the same videos they had 3 years ago.
- Slow to respond to product questions.
- Not enough scale on APAC GEOS.
- We have gotten good CPAs, but we have had to bid high CPMs.
- They were reluctant to do a rebate deal, which is something standard once you hit a certain volume of spend, which worsened ROI.
- No buy sides fees, which is a big plus for profitability.
Vungle stands out as the only video only exchange. It is their main selling point and they have carved out a nice niche that differentiates them from the rest of SSPs. Their main competition, in my opinion, is Teads, which has focused the product more towards branding in order to monetize better for its publishers by getting higher bids.
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