Court Exhibit·16 JUN 2011
When Your Partners Start Stealing Your Customers
When 60% of your paying customers are already using a competitor's tool inside your own platform, you don't have a partnership problem — you have a survival problem.
Source document — United States v. Google LLC (Ad Tech) — PTX0085: Email from Jonathan Bellack to Laurent Cordier re YM Plan Docs (June 16, 2011) · United States v. Google LLC (Ad Tech) · 1:23-cv-00108 (VAED), Trial Ex. PTX0085 — DOJ public archive (page 1)
Excerpt · In Jonathan Bellack's own words
Executive summary: Yield managers are disintermediating our access to inventory, inhibiting our overall display strategy. We have product and service gaps against Yield Managers. We have a plan to close those gaps and facilitate inventory flow to AdX (assuming it generates best yield). Some short-term actions will mitigate key risks. Our ask: 1) approval to our plan, 2) help to mitigate the risks. Yield Managers are a growing part of the buys on Invite Media. Yield Managers are persistent on DFP Small Business. A growing percentage of AFC+AdX publishers are working with Yield Managers, too. Premium DFP publishers are working with Yield Managers and networks. 60% of paying DFP publishers are using a third party yield manager of a competitive exchange. More than 75% of DFP pubs maintain direct network relationships.
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- Court Exhibit
- Case / record
- United States v. Google LLC (Ad Tech)
- Citation
- 1:23-cv-00108 (VAED), Trial Ex. PTX0085 — DOJ public archive
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- June 16, 2011
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