DoubleVerify To Acquire Rockerbox, Adding Outcome Measurement and Attribution Capabilities to Its Suite of Performance Measurement and Optimization Solutions
27 February 2025 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
DV will integrate customer journey insights,
advanced attribution, performance analytics, and AI-powered
activation into a unified platform to drive better outcomes.
The transaction also expands DV’s value
proposition to mid-market and direct response advertisers.
DoubleVerify (“DV”) (NYSE: DV), a leading software platform for
digital media measurement, data and analytics, today announced that
it has entered into an agreement to acquire Rockerbox, a global
leader in marketing attribution. Rockerbox’s unified marketing
measurement platform provides actionable insights powered by
Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA), Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM), and
Incrementality Testing solutions. This acquisition enhances DV’s
industry-leading suite of data solutions, advancing its
capabilities in end-to-end media performance measurement and
AI-powered activation. The addition of Rockerbox marks a pivotal
step in DV’s evolution from offering media quality protection and
performance measurement to powering definitive ad KPI achievement,
equipping advertisers with the tools to measure, optimize, and
drive real business outcomes.
“At DoubleVerify, we believe fully understanding performance
measurement—from media quality to broader attribution insights—has
always been essential to maximizing advertising effectiveness and
ROI,” said Mark Zagorski, CEO of DoubleVerify. “With the
acquisition of Rockerbox, we will gain a transformative opportunity
to capture the full scope of a campaign’s performance, integrating
DV’s trusted data with conversion insights across both the open web
and walled gardens. This is a game-changer for DV and the industry,
as we reinforce our position as a unified, independent platform for
digital-first performance measurement and AI-powered
optimization––serving enterprise brands and mid-market advertisers,
while driving growth across lower-funnel campaigns.”
Rockerbox centralizes cross-channel conversion attribution and
ad spend data, providing deep insights into customer journeys to
help marketers optimize their media investments. By integrating
Rockerbox’s measurement capabilities with DV Scibids AITM––the
company’s dynamic activation technology—advertisers will gain a
continuous feedback loop between measurement, optimization, and
activation. This integration unlocks a more precise, efficient, and
scalable approach to performance marketing.
“We’re thrilled to join forces with DoubleVerify and bring
Rockerbox’s industry-leading measurement technology to even more
advertisers, helping them drive better business outcomes,” said Ron
Jacobson, CEO of Rockerbox. “By combining DV’s trusted data and
Rockerbox’s outcome measurement, we’re delivering the industry’s
best full-funnel measurement offering—opening up new growth
opportunities for current DV customers and expanding DV’s basket of
solutions to attract new ones.”
The combined capabilities of DV and Rockerbox will provide
advertisers with the following benefits:
- Gain a holistic view of cross-channel performance.
Centralize campaign data to understand customer interactions across
open web, search, social, and CTV. Identify the most influential
touchpoints driving conversions.
- Drive real business outcomes. Harness proprietary AI
activation and comprehensive data assets—including customer journey
insights, cost, DSP impression-level data, and trusted
measurement—to improve performance and achieve key KPIs.
- Make smarter marketing decisions. Access granular,
cross-channel path-to-conversion insights down to the individual ad
level, enabling better budget allocation and media planning.
- Boost operational efficiency. Automate data collection,
organization, and media optimization across programmatic and social
channels to save time and streamline workflows.
Furthermore, this combined solution strengthens DV’s ability to
correlate measurement data with business performance. By aligning
fraud, suitability, viewability, attention, and contextual data
with Rockerbox’s attribution insights, advertisers can more
effectively connect media quality and performance data to real
outcomes.
“Granular insights will empower brands to strategically
reallocate budgets, ensuring ad spend is optimized for maximum
return on investment,” added Zagorski. “But beyond that, we’re
enabling them to activate these insights through DV Scibids AI to
drive the performance outcomes they need. With this acquisition,
we’re advancing our strategy to expand beyond protection and drive
superior performance.”
Recent testing with a global brand offering weight loss,
fitness, and mindset services showcased the impact of the combined
DV and Rockerbox solution. By using Rockerbox as the source of
truth for conversion and cost measurement and leveraging DV Scibids
AI to optimize campaign performance, the brand achieved CPA (cost
per acquisition) reductions of 39% and 20% across two live
campaigns. This demonstrates how AI-powered activation and advanced
attribution insights can drive greater efficiency and improve
overall performance.
This deal expands DoubleVerify’s total addressable market,
creating new opportunities in lower-funnel direct-response
advertising and strengthening its ability to serve small to
mid-sized performance companies.
The acquisition of Rockerbox is a cash transaction valued at $85
million. The transaction is anticipated to close early in the
second quarter (the “Acquisition”).
DV will discuss the acquisition in greater detail when it
reports fourth-quarter 2024 results on February 27, 2025, at 4:30
p.m. ET.
For more information about DV, visit
http://www.doubleverify.com.
About DoubleVerify
DoubleVerify (“DV”) (NYSE: DV) is the industry’s leading media
effectiveness platform that leverages AI to drive superior outcomes
for global brands. By powering media efficiency and performance, DV
strengthens the online advertising ecosystem, preserving the fair
value exchange between buyers and sellers of digital media.
Learn more at www.doubleverify.com.
About Rockerbox
Rockerbox aggregates ad spend data across media channels and
attributes conversions to help optimize media investment. Key
capabilities include: centralized data collection, unified
marketing attribution, multi-touch attribution, customer journey
mapping, media mix modeling and incrementality testing. Learn more
at www.rockerbox.com.
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