Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Place Exchange, the leading independent supply-side platform (SSP) for programmatic Digital Out of Home this week announced the expansion of its Programmatic Guaranteed offering, supporting guaranteed deals between buyers and sellers for DOOH inventory.
The vast majority of DOOH transactions today occur via direct sales between media owners and buyers. Such direct transactions, often for premium inventory, offer the buyer and seller definitive assurance in advance around where, when, and how many impressions will run, and at what price. However, the process can be labor intensive – especially when buying across multiple media owners – requiring management of multiple sets of deals and insertion orders, manual data entry, disjointed reporting, and separate billing and payments.
Programmatic Guaranteed for DOOH combines the predictability and control of direct deals with the power of programmatic, all within the buyer’s DSP of choice. The numerous benefits for buyers include:-
- Time savings and error reduction from the automation and streamlining of workflows
- Unified reporting and measurement of PG DOOH with other media activity (including across other channels, if executed within an omnichannel DSP)
- Consolidated and simplified billing
- Access to a variety of programmatically-enabled advanced capabilities across the entire buy.
For sellers, enabling PG transactions opens up their inventory to a broader pool of demand, including programmatic-native digital buyers looking to add premium DOOH media to their campaigns via the familiar mechanism of Programmatic Guaranteed, all with complete transparency and control.
“Programmatic Guaranteed will be instrumental in opening DOOH inventory up to more buyers, including many who have not historically included DOOH as part of their media mix,” said Ari Buchalter, CEO of Place Exchange. “With the introduction of this enhanced PG offering, we are excited to help grow the market for DOOH to the benefit of both buyers and sellers.”
Place Exchange was early to identify the potential of Programmatic Guaranteed in the DOOH space and developed proprietary technology now enhanced by a powerful array of Programmatic Guaranteed capabilities. These include advanced planning and targeting (by audiences, geos, points-of-interest, venues, keywords, and more), creative management and approvals, campaign delivery controls including budgeting and pacing, log-level data export, deduplicated reach and frequency measurement, device ID passback for exposed audiences, and support for a wide array of third party capabilities – including 3rd party tags, third party dynamic creative, and third party attribution measurement – all enabled on the buyer’s DSP of choice. To leverage these advanced capabilities against the most highly-sought after DOOH inventory, Place Exchange has also streamlined the process for reserving and booking inventory to be delivered on a PG basis.
Having already run numerous Programmatic Guaranteed DOOH campaigns over the past year across a wide array of publishers and DSPs, Place Exchange has expanded access to these capabilities to more supply and demand partners, representing the largest footprint of PG certified partners in the DOOH space.
“The launch of true Programmatic Guaranteed through Place Exchange in 2024 marked a strategic evolution for Captivate,” said Leigh Lowery, Chief Revenue Officer at Captivate. “It has allowed our advertising partners to tap into our trusted venues with greater efficiency, while delivering performance and precision at scale. As the demand for unified, cross-platform strategies continues to rise, this partnership offers brands a future-ready solution that delivers both impact and accountability.”
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