Bionic for Ad Sales News

Here is the latest news on Bionic for Ad Sales, which is a software tool that helps you manage your RFPs and IOs, and gets you into more media plans.

22Oct 2013

NextMark Spawns Bionic Advertising Systems

NextMark today announced the creation of Bionic Advertising Systems, a new division focused on delivering technology that streamlines digital advertising workflow for digital marketers, their advertising agencies, and publishers.

21Aug 2013

The Fat Middle

I recently sat through some great presentations on “programmatic direct” media buying at the recent Tech for Direct event in New York. With almost 70% of digital display dollars flowing through the negotiated (RFP) market, everyone wants to be in the game.

26Apr 2012

5,000+ Top Digital Media Ad Programs Now Available In Bionic

Bionic has hit yet another milestone with the Digital Media Advertising Index: more than 5,000 of the top digital media advertising programs are now represented via data cards. It was just four months ago that we hit the 2,500 record milestone. Great momentum! The top publishers have been very enthusiastic about posting their data cards in the index for four good reasons: 1) It makes it easier for media planners to find them 2) It makes it easier for media planners to buy from them 3) It’s easy to use 4) It’s free The data card index complements other website indexing services like those from comScore, Nielsen, and Google that to a great job with website metrics such as number of visitors, page views, and basic visitor demographics. Those other services help media planners to find sites on which to advertise, but they don’t answer all questions a media planner needs to know when building a media plan such as: [...]

21Dec 2011

2,500+ Top Website Ad Programs Now Available In Bionic

The 1,000 site milestone seemed like a big deal when we hit it last month. But now it seems so yesterday… today we hit another milestone: more than 2,500 sites are now represented in our data card index. Congratulations to the Accounts and Market Intelligences teams for establishing the relationships and doing the research and data entry to hit this goal ahead of schedule. We’re running at a pace of more than 200 sites per day so it won’t be long before we hit our next milestone: 10,000 sites.

14Nov 2011

1,000+ Top Website Ad Programs Now Available In Bionic

Last month, we announced a milestone: 50 Top Web Publishers Tap NextMark’s New Ad Sales Tool. Today, we report two more milestones: 1) That “50″ number is already old news; more than 100 publishers are now on board. In the past month alone, another 50+ web publishers have signed on, bringing the count to 107. 2) More than 1,000 website advertising programs from these web publishers are now represented as “data cards” in our advertising program database. In fact, as of today 1,414 data cards have been published. At the current rate, more than 2,500 of the top website advertising programs will be indexed and available by the end of the year. Unlike in other media channels, digital media planners have never had a “go to” source of comprehensive information about digital advertising programs. They’ve used myriad tools and countless hours of drudgery to cobble together the information they need to present a professional media plan to their client, the [...]

21May 2011

Typical Online Display Media Order Process

As part of the process of building our next generation digital media planning application, we’ve been documenting the current digital media “culture” (I feel like an anthropologist). One of the more interesting documents to come out of this research is the “Typical Online Display Media Order Process” shown above. This is complicated! You’ll find a dozen roles executing 42 steps.  It’s no wonder the cost of executing a digital campaign is so high.