PubMatic hires VP of product management

In his new role, Catanzaro (pictured) will be responsible for product vision and roadmaps for the company’s CTV and video businesses.

Before taking up his new role at PubMatic, Catanzaro was head of publisher media strategy at digital media company Roku, and was previously founder and chief innovation officer at Roku-acquired DataXu.

Nishant Khatri, senior vice-president of product management at PubMatic, said: “We are thrilled to have an esteemed product innovator like Sandro join PubMatic.

“With his guidance, we will build on our leadership position in the high-growth video and CTV formats, and enhance the value we bring our global publisher and advertiser customers across the open internet.”

Comscore agreement
Pubmatic has agreed to integrate predictive audiences and content targeting tools from Comscore’s programmatic targeting business Proximic by Comscore into the PubMatic platform.

The agreement will see data from Proximic by Comscore be made available to media buyers on PubMatic’s Connect data and insights platform.

The integration will allow PubMatic customers to access new targeting options to reach key audiences across desktop, mobile and CTV.

Proximic by Comscore is the new name for Comscore’s audience and content targeting company Proximic, with the new business taking over Comscore’s Activation Team brand.

Jessica Trainor, head of partnerships at Proximic by Comscore, said: “We are excited to partner with PubMatic to make our Predictive Audiences easily accessible for targeting on the sell-side.

“This partnership offers buyers access to ID-less audiences that can be applied to private marketplaces to help close the addressability gap left by the many compounding factors driving signal loss in our industry.”

Mark Williams, senior director, audience solutions, Europe, Middle East and Africa at PubMatic, said: “This partnership with Proximic by Comscore enables us to offer addressable audiences, incremental reach and performance to our clients.

“Digital advertising industry is shifting from buy-side to sell-side targeting, a strategy that delivers superior addressability and performance for both publishers and advertisers in a privacy-centric matter.”