Bionic for Agencies News

Here is the latest news on Bionic for Agencies, which is a software tool that centralizes, standardizes, and automates your media planning and media buying.

5Sep 2014

Monitor campaign delivery and pacing with Bionic Pacing Dashboard

Keeping your advertising campaigns on pace has never been easier. With Bionic Media Planner, you now get daily pacing reports that guarantee your campaigns are on track and avoid embarrassing discrepancies. Have you ever been stung by a media placement that started late or didn’t deliver the results you expected? Regrettably, under- and over-delivery is a chronic problem in the media business. In some campaigns, the discrepancy rate is virtually 100%. Publishers tend to over-promise in their quest to win your business (and to make their quarterly sales quota). When you learn they’ve under-delivered, it’s often too late to get your campaign back on track. As a steward of the media budget, it’s your responsibility to ensure that every publisher on the media plan is delivering what they promised. It’s critical to stay on top of all your campaigns while they are in flight to catch discrepancies early and to make the necessary optimizations that ensure that every campaign comes [...]

3Apr 2014

Bionic Goes Old School with Traditional Media Planning

Bionic Advertising Systems today announced an upgrade to its Media Planner system that adds support for traditional media channels such as TV, radio, and print. The media planning tool now enables media planners to create media plans with placements across 24 different advertising channels, representing the full range of digital and traditional offline media. “Bionic Planner was originally designed to solve the problems specific to the complex and expensive process of planning and buying digital advertising,” said Chris O’Hara, co-founder and CRO of Bionic.  “Since its launch a year ago, media planners have started by using it for their digital media planning. Along the way we noticed a pattern: inevitably after getting into it, they would ask us how to use it for ALL their media planning. Now that digital is becoming more mainstream and integrated in the advertising mix, nobody wants to use one planning tool for digital and another one for traditional advertising.” The latest version of Bionic [...]

30Mar 2014

The Battle for Workflow Automation

Even though programmatic RTB has seen the lion’s share of venture capital funding and an enormous amount of innovation, RTB buying only accounts for 20%-30% of all digital media dollars. The real money still flows through the direct buying process, with agencies spending up to 400 hours and $50,000 to create the typical campaign, and publishers burning through 1,600 hours a month and 18% of their revenue responding to RFPs. What a mess….and an opportunity. Everybody’s battling for a slice of that direct sales pie, and the game is all about helping buyers and sellers automate the manual processes that drive almost 80% of transactional value. The Holy Grail for both sides is a web based, connected platform that will enable planners and sellers to thrust aside Excel, and start to transact business in the cloud. Although a number of companies have tried and failed to deliver on the promise of workflow automation, the time seems ripe for true adoption, [...]