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18 Mar 2014

The Four Keys to Programmatic Direct Success

By |2023-03-04T14:48:01-05:00March 18th, 2014|Categories: Bionic for Ad Sales News, Learn to Media Plan|Tags: , , , , |

I was recently talking to the Chief Digital Officer of a large agency that does a lot of digital media buying. He has been working closely with a number of software providers to standardize his operations on a media management system. Getting all his vendor information, order management, and billing [...]

4 Jan 2014

The Transactional RFP Business is Dying

By |2023-03-04T14:59:40-05:00January 4th, 2014|Categories: Bionic for Ad Sales News|Tags: , , , |

“80 percent of the publishers getting an RFP don’t even stand a chance.” – Doug Weaver, Upstream Group Direct mail is an amazing thing. It costs something like $750 CPM to put a glossy catalogue in the mail, but somehow direct marketers make those numbers work. Mailing lists are constantly [...]

13 Dec 2013

The Nuts and Bolts of Programmatic Direct

By |2023-03-04T14:48:01-05:00December 13th, 2013|Categories: Learn to Media Plan, Thoughts|Tags: , , , |

An interview with Econsultancy’s Monica Savut and Bionic's Chris O'Hara, on his recently published programmatic direct whitepaper. Econsultancy: Why now? In other words, why has this “programmatic direct” trend been on the radar lately? What’s driving all of the conversation the space? Chris O’Hara: It’s really something my boss Joe Pych calls [...]

5 Dec 2013

Bionic Unveils RFP Drone

By |2017-12-26T15:35:03-05:00December 5th, 2013|Categories: News|

After years of development in "stealth mode," today we finally unveiled our latest invention: the RFP Drone. Unlike the cumbersome manual processes used in the past that took many days to deliver RFPs, the RFP Drone delivers your RFPs in mere hours! Order yours today. It makes a great corporate [...]

4 Dec 2013

Programmatic Direct is in the Top of the Second Inning

By |2023-03-04T14:48:01-05:00December 4th, 2013|Categories: Bionic for Agencies News|Tags: , , |

Lately, I have been working on a whitepaper about the “programmatic direct” phenomenon. Part of the research involved surveying a bunch of influential people in the space, and asking them where they thought this new buying methodology was in terms of adoption. Their answers kind of surprised me. If “programmatic [...]