Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;


          Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain
          Officers.


On February 7, 2020, The Rubicon Project, Inc. ("Rubicon Project") filed
Amendment No. 1 to Form S-4 Registration Statement (the "Form S-4") which
contained certain disclosures regarding the compensation of Rubicon Project's
named executive officers. At the time of such filing, the compensation committee
of Rubicon Project had not yet determined the 2019 cash bonus amounts to be paid
to Rubicon Project's named executive officers. The compensation committee has
now approved the 2019 cash bonus amounts for Rubicon Project's named executive
officers. In accordance with applicable rules of the Securities and Exchange
Commission ("SEC"), this Form 8-K is being filed to update certain disclosures
previously included in the Form S-4 to reflect the actual cash bonus amounts
paid or to be paid to named executive officers for 2019.

Summary Compensation Table - 2019


The following table describes the 2019, 2018 and 2017 compensation provided to
our named executive officers. Mr. Soroca and Mr. Prusz were not named executive
officers of Rubicon Project prior to 2019; thus, pursuant to SEC guidance, we
have only included compensation information for them for 2019. This table has
been updated from the Summary Compensation Table included in the Form S-4 to
reflect the total annual bonuses paid to the named executive officers for 2019.

                                                                        Non-Equity
                                                                        Incentive
                                                 Stock                     Plan      All Other
Name and Principal                              Awards   Option Awards Compensation Compensation
Position           Year  Salary ($) Bonus ($)   ($)(1)      ($)(1)        ($)(2)        ($)      Total ($)
Michael Barrett    2019   515,000       -      1,799,000    883,827      609,503      5,735(3)   3,813,065
President and CEO  2018   515,000       -       689,500     327,468      515,000       5,006     2,051,974
                   2017  407,708(4)     -      6,375,000   2,110,085     315,037       1,728     9,209,558
David Day          2019   400,000       -       924,960     454,019      307,710     28,540(5)   2,115,229
Chief Financial
Officer            2018   400,000   100,000(6)  334,108     45,646       

260,000 28,571 1,168,325


                   2017  402,520(7) 100,000(6)  227,420     103,379      190,747       15,550    1,039,616
Thomas Kershaw     2019   425,000       -      1,028,280    504,779      325,463      5,735(8)   2,289,257
Chief Technology
Officer            2018   425,000   150,000(9)  675,189     94,602       

275,000 5,650 1,625,441


                   2017   425,000   150,000(9)  616,835     214,256      211,763       1,832     1,619,686
Adam Soroca(10)    2019   325,000       -       772,440     377,879      266,288     7,682(11)   1,749,289
Head of Global
Buyer Team
Joseph Prusz(12)   2019   325,000       -       639,600     313,019      266,288      135(13)    1,544,042
Chief Revenue
Officer

(1) In accordance with the rules of the SEC, these amounts represent the

aggregate grant date fair value of the stock awards and option awards granted

to the named executive officer during the applicable fiscal year computed in

accordance with ASC 718. Rubicon Project's equity awards valuation approach

and related underlying assumptions for awards granted in 2019 are described

in Note 2 "Organization and Summary of Significant Accounting

Policies-Stock-Based Compensation" and Note 13 "Stock-Based Compensation" to

the Consolidated Financial Statements in Rubicon Project's Annual Report on

Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, filed with the SEC on

February 26, 2020 (the "2019 10-K") (and the assumptions for awards granted

prior to 2019 are set forth in the corresponding notes in the Annual Report

on Form 10-K for the applicable fiscal year). The reported amounts do not

necessarily reflect the value that may be realized by the executive with

respect to the awards, which will depend on future changes in stock value and

may be more or less than the amount shown.

(2) Cash incentive amounts earned by the named executive officers for service

during the year, including amounts paid subsequent to that year based upon

performance during that year. The compensation committee determined that for

the full year of 2019, we achieved revenue of $156.4 million and adjusted

EBITDA less capex of $5.7 million, resulting in a weighted payout percentage

of 118.3% pursuant to the annual incentive program for the named executive

officers for 2019 as described in "2019 Executive and Director

Compensation-Rubicon Project Compensation Discussion and Analysis" section of

the Form S-4 under the heading "Annual Performance-Based Cash Awards." As

described in such section, each named executive officer was paid a portion of

his annual bonus in July 2019 based on performance during the first half of

the year. The final 2019 award for each executive, which appears in the table

above, will be paid in March 2020 (less the amount of the incentive already


     paid to the named executive officer for the first half of 2019).











(3) Represents $5,600 in 401(k) plan matching contributions and $135 in life

insurance premiums.

(4) Mr. Barrett joined Rubicon Project in March 2017 with an annual salary of

$515,000.

(5) Represent $8,400 in 401(k) plan matching contributions, $135 in life

insurance premiums and $20,005 in transportation reimbursement.

(6) Represents a $100,000 retention bonus that vested during the applicable year.

(7) Mr. Day's base salary was increased effective February 22, 2017 in connection

with his appointment as permanent Chief Financial Officer. This amount

represents 10.2 months of base salary at an annual rate of $400,000 and 1.8

months of base salary at an annual rate of $295,625 and also includes $17,500

in supplemental compensation for service as Interim Chief Financial Officer


     for 2017 through his appointment as permanent Chief Financial Officer on
     February 22, 2017.

(8) Represents $5,600 in 401(k) plan matching contributions and $135 in life

insurance premiums.

(9) Represents a $150,000 retention bonus that vested during the applicable year.

(10) Mr. Soroca was not a named executive officer of Rubicon Project prior to

2019.

(11) Represents $6,094 in 401(k) plan matching contributions, $135 in life

insurance premiums, and $1,453 in transit benefit plan matching

contributions.

(12) Mr. Prusz was not a named executive officer of Rubicon Project prior to

2019.

(13) Represents $135 in life insurance premiums.

CEO Pay-Ratio Disclosure


Pursuant to the Exchange Act, we are required to disclose the ratio of the total
annual compensation of our President and CEO, Michael Barrett, to the median of
the total annual compensation of all of our employees (excluding our CEO). Based
on SEC rules for this disclosure and applying the methodology described above,
we have determined that our CEO's total compensation for 2019 was $3,813,065,
and the median of the total 2019 compensation of all of our employees (excluding
our CEO) was $134,169. Accordingly, we estimate the ratio of our CEO's total
compensation for 2019 to the median of the total 2019 compensation of all of our
employees (excluding our CEO) to be 28.4 to 1.

We identified the median employee by taking into account the annualized total
cash compensation for 2019 for all individuals, excluding our CEO, who were
employed by us or one of our affiliates on December 31, 2019. We included all
employees, whether employed on a full-time or part-time basis. We did not make
any assumptions, adjustments or estimates with respect to their total cash
compensation for 2019, but we did annualize the compensation for any employees
who were not employed by us for all of 2019. We believe total cash compensation
for all employees is an appropriate measure because we do not distribute annual
equity awards to all employees.

Once the median employee was identified as described above, that employee's total annual compensation for 2019 was determined using the same rules that apply to reporting the compensation of our named executive officers (including our CEO) in the "Total" column of the Summary Compensation Table. The total compensation amounts included in the first paragraph of this pay-ratio disclosure were determined based on that methodology.

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