• by Tyler Loechner  @mp_tyler, March 26, 2014

AOL on Wednesday revealed ONE, a cross-screen programmatic advertising platform born from the company’s existing ad tech stack. IPG Mediabrands has signed on as the platform’s charter partner. The platform is under development and portions of it will be available to marketers later this year.

Included in ONE are programmatic video ad platform Adap.tv, mobile and display platform AOP, and programmatic mobile and display platform AOL Marketplace. It’s an open platform, so advertisers can use whichever creative platform they want, though AOL’s Pictela is included.

Advertisers will be able to use ONE to purchase display, mobile, video, TV, tablet, desktop inventory via reserved or non-reserved methods.

Seth Demsey, the company’s chief technical officer, and Amir Ashkenazi, founder and CEO of Adap.tv, spoke with RTM Daily about the new platform. Together, they serve as its two-headed leader: Demsey as the tech guy and Ashkenazi as the product unit leader.

While other companies have touted “cross-channel programmatic platforms” before, Ashkenazi believes AOL is the first to include linear TV. He acknowledged other platforms exist, but also claimed AOL is the first to offer both reserved and non-reserved inventory.

Demsey shared that ONE has been “the grand plan since late 2010,” when AOL decided to focus on its programmatic efforts. While ONE may be an amalgamation of existing platforms, Demsey noted there are new features.

“We are focused on intelligently connecting our platforms,” he said. “For example, we want to make sure the same data used in Adap.tv is available as an input into the AdLearn optimization for mobile. We want the targeting data from AdLearn to be available for Adap.tv.”

There will not be multiple data management platforms (DMPs), which Demsey hopes will make life easier for advertisers. Additionally, the platform will require just one login.

“A combination of acquisitions and product launches are culminating in ONE as you see it today,” Demsey said. “But it won’t be how it looks in three years.”

AOL will use the ONE platform for its own programmatic buys, and the platform will be available to others as an enterprise solution, per the release. It will launch globally.

Tim Armstrong, CEO and chairman of AOL, and Bob Lord, CEO of AOL Platforms, announced ONE at ad:tech San Francisco 2014.