PubMatic vs HBO Max
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Independent sell-side ad platform with $280M revenue; owned infrastructure for publisher monetization expanding in CTV and cookieless advertising competing with Magnite and Google.
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PubMatic is a digital advertising technology company providing a sell-side platform (SSP) that enables publishers — news websites, apps, streaming video publishers — to programmatically sell their advertising inventory to buyers through real-time bidding auctions. Founded in 2006 in Redwood City, California and listed on NASDAQ in December 2020, PubMatic generates approximately $280 million in annual revenue as one of the larger independent SSPs competing against Google's Ad Manager for publisher monetization.
Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ: WBD) streaming platform Max at 122.3M global subscribers and $2.7B quarterly revenue; HBO prestige content plus Discovery+ combined competing with Netflix and Disney+ for streaming market share.
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Max (formerly HBO Max) is the flagship streaming service of Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBD) — launched as Max in May 2023 after combining HBO Max and Discovery+ into a single service — providing 122.3 million global subscribers (as of Q1 2025, +5.3 million quarter-over-quarter) with access to HBO original programming (Succession, The Last of Us, White Lotus, House of the Dragon), Warner Bros. theatrical films, DC Comics content, CNN news content, HBO documentaries, and discovery+ content (reality, nature, cooking, home) in a broad entertainment platform targeting $2.7 billion in streaming revenue per quarter with a path to 150 million subscribers by end of 2026. Warner Bros. Discovery achieved $677 million in direct-to-consumer (DTC) profit in fiscal year 2024 after years of streaming investment losses.
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