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.
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.
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 [...]
Excel Still Top Tool for Media Pros
Laredo Group's AdSavvy newsletter just featured a story by Kendall Allen that hit home with me because it highlights the fact that Microsoft Excel is still the tool of choice for media pros despite the proliferation of other tools: “Long live the Excel spreadsheet as the tool of choice. We speak anecdotally among industry circles and in class about our seemingly lifelong relationship with manual approaches and tools – and with Excel. We have a love-hate relationship with Excel. It turns out that the stats bear this out. But, we are still more manual and Excel-jockeying than we should be, if we want to scale our efforts.” She cites research by Efficient Frontier that reveals: “When asked which tools they used to manage both programs together, US marketers most commonly said spreadsheets (59%)—seemingly favoring a simple, and most likely inadequate campaign management solution over more advanced tools…. That’s not to say that marketers aren’t also relying on some form of [...]
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.