PubMatic is an independent, publicly traded ad tech company that runs a sell-side platform connecting digital publishers with advertisers through real-time programmatic auctions. Built on its own cloud infrastructure rather than rented servers, PubMatic processes trillions of ad impressions and is pushing into connected TV, commerce media, and agentic AI tools that automate ad buying and selling.
Rajeev Goel is the co-founder and CEO of PubMatic, the publicly traded (Nasdaq: PUBM) supply-side ad tech company he started with his brother Amar in 2006 to give publishers a seat at the programmatic table. Two decades in, he is steering PubMatic into Connected TV, agentic AI buying, and an NVIDIA-powered infrastructure overhaul while continuing to argue that the open web deserves more than the walled gardens it competes against.