BrightRoll

BrightRoll was a programmatic video advertising platform founded in 2006 in San Francisco that ran one of the largest independent real-time bidding marketplaces for digital video ads (RTB/DSP/SSP), connecting brand advertisers and agencies with publisher video inventory across web, mobile, and connected devices. The company was acquired by Yahoo in November 2014 and its technology was folded into Yahoo's advertising stack, later branded under Oath / Verizon Media and now Yahoo Advertising. BrightRoll no longer operates as an independent provider and publishes no standalone developer program or public API. As of this enrichment pass its former domain, brightroll.com, returns an HTTP 301 redirect to Yahoo's advertising platforms page, and the domain is served from Yahoo-owned DNS and mail infrastructure. This profile is retained in the API Evangelist network as an acquired / absorbed company record rather than an active API producer.

BrightRoll is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Advertising, AdTech, Video Advertising, and Programmatic Advertising.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyAdvertisingAdTechVideo AdvertisingProgrammatic AdvertisingReal-Time BiddingDemand-Side PlatformAcquired

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

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name: BrightRoll
description: BrightRoll was a programmatic video advertising platform founded in 2006 in San Francisco that ran one of the
  largest independent real-time bidding marketplaces for digital video ads (RTB/DSP/SSP), connecting brand advertisers and
  agencies with publisher video inventory across web, mobile, and connected devices. The company was acquired by Yahoo in
  November 2014 and its technology was folded into Yahoo's advertising stack, later branded under Oath / Verizon Media and
  now Yahoo Advertising. BrightRoll no longer operates as an independent provider and publishes no standalone developer program
  or public API. As of this enrichment pass its former domain, brightroll.com, returns an HTTP 301 redirect to Yahoo's advertising
  platforms page, and the domain is served from Yahoo-owned DNS and mail infrastructure. This profile is retained in the API
  Evangelist network as an acquired / absorbed company record rather than an active API producer.
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x-status: acquired
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x-acquired-year: 2014
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- Advertising
- AdTech
- Video Advertising
- Programmatic Advertising
- Real-Time Bidding
- Demand-Side Platform
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apis: []
maintainers:
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  email: kin@apievangelist.com
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x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
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