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TVadSync Determines TV Commercials Seen by Households to Show Related Ads on Viewers’ Devices; Centro’s Programmatic Ad Platform Synchronizes Marketing Funnel from Traditional to Digital Media
Chicago – October 4, 2017 – TVadSync (www.tvadsync.com), a provider of technology to bridge the advertising gap between television and second screen devices, today announced the expanded availability of its real-time TV re-targeting solution for U.S. marketers. Centro (centro.net), an enterprise-class software provider for digital advertising, powers the offering. Centro’s Basis programmatic ad platform provides a responsive API that enables TVadSync to find digital media audiences and synchronize, within minutes, the digital device ads served to the user in relation to TV commercials they have just seen. This creates greater surround sound for TV marketers by extending their share of voice to mobile and desktop as TV spots are airing. TVadSync is a pioneer in activating TV re-targeting in real-time, with scale and precision. For more information, visit www.tvadsync.com/products/smart-retarget.
In a multi-device world, advertisers are facing increasing difficulty capturing the attention of their target audiences. Contributing to the problem are distractions present during commercial pods because consumer attention can shift to other digital devices. An in-home eye-tracking study from Facebook IQ showed that 94% of TV viewers keep their smartphones with them while watching. However, repetition helps reinforce messages. Advertisers that want to capture a viewer’s full attention need the ability to determine what households are watching their marketing messages and what other digital devices they use while multitasking. The challenge in this situation is the digital media activation delivered to consumers in that household before commercial breaks end and users’ attention is lost as programming resumes.
“As TV audiences adopt new multiscreen behaviors at home, it’s crucial for scaled marketers and media operators to align digital and TV advertising to lift the return-on-ad-spend on their campaign buys,” said Ronan Higgins, CEO of TVadSync. “Together with Centro, we can power and accelerate the TV and digital convergence by connecting the conversion power of programmatic advertising to high impact, emotive TV advertising.”
TVadSync’s solution is fueled by the largest deterministic viewership dataset from millions of Smart TVs across the U.S. Leveraging automatic content recognition (ACR) technology built into TVs, TVadSync processes information anonymously correlated to digital devices and behaviors of TV viewers. TVadSync determines when a brand’s TV spot airs, and decides if it should respond immediately with a related ad in any format to the user’s digital device. Brands can differentiate themselves and amplify their message through TV-to-digital retargeting on a one-to-one basis when commercials are airing.
TV ad re-targeting benefits for marketers include:
Basis Empowers Innovators and Market-Movers
Recently recognized by software review site G2 Crowd as the best demand-side platform (DSP), Centro’s Basis offers omni-channel reach, easy usability, real-time reporting and a responsive API. A driving factor for TVadSync is Basis’ unique capability to deliver IP-based low-latency digital media activations within the crucial moments after TV spots air. With TVadSync projecting 200% YOY growth, it needs enterprise-grade, agile technology that processes data accurately and timely for its blue-chip brand clients. In addition to platform responsiveness, Basis leverages technology and human auditing to ensure the highest quality ad environments for brands. By using Basis, innovative companies such as TVadSync can leverage engineering sophistication and human understanding to transform industry challenges into opportunities for brands and agencies.
“TVadSync is driving the evolution of media convergence by broadening TV’s impact in the marketing funnel and connecting it to digital channels,” said Katie Risch, EVP of customer experience at Centro. “Pioneer organizations in media and advertising are leveraging Centro’s technology to differentiate their offerings and lead the innovation in their market segments.”
About Centro
Centro (centro.net) is a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising organizations. Its Basis technology platform centralizes, organizes and automates all digital media campaigns across all channels, accessing both guaranteed and biddable inventory, to achieve any objective. Our holistic approach gives marketers a single system of record to fulfill their research, planning, buying, optimization, reporting and reconciliation needs. Headquartered in Chicago with 32 offices in North America, Centro has received numerous accolades for its commitment to employees and workplace culture.
About TVadSync
TVadSync (www.tvadsync.com) represents the ultimate in cross-screen marketing, helping advertisers leverage the combined emotive power of TV and conversion opportunity of digital to drive maximum ROI, and understand the impact of both. With TVadSync’s Smart Retarget offering, brands can retarget the mobile devices of consumers who have viewed specific TV content at exactly the right time, helping to push higher show tune-ins, site visits and conversions. Through cutting edge attribution modelling, TVadSync also gives brands the tools they need to gain valuable insights into precisely how their TV or digital spend influences engagement, and how to optimize their marketing.
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Contact:
Anthony Loredo
anthony.loredo@centro.net
646-462-4888
Marketers of All Types Can Utilize Centro’s Basis Platform to Buy Native Ads Programmatically at Scale; Sharethrough’s Ad Exchange Encompasses High Quality Publishers
Chicago – September 19, 2017 – Centro (centro.net), a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising, today announced an integration with Sharethrough (www.sharethrough.com) to give marketers more programmatic buying capabilities of native ads. The Sharethrough Exchange is the largest programmatic ad exchange in the ad tech ecosystem, transacting 8 billion impressions each month, with three-quarters of those on mobile devices. Centro’s Basis is the only demand-side platform (DSP) in market to pull in real-time bidding (RTB), direct, search and social advertising into one unified campaign planning and buying platform. Basis customers can now access in-feed native ad impressions on the open web through the Sharethrough Exchange. More than 1,200 premium publishers such as Time Inc. and Wenner Media, as well as app properties such as ABC News, Under Armour and Rotten Tomatoes provide inventory on the ad exchange.
In-feed native advertising, a form of paid media where the ad unit follows the form and function of the user experience, is projected to account for half of all digital display ads in 2017, according to research firm eMarketer. This is largely due to its effectiveness, where a joint study by IPG Media Labs and Sharethrough indicated that native ad headlines yielded 308x more consumer attention than banners. By connecting to Sharethrough’s ad marketplace, Basis automates the buying of these ads on high quality publishers
“In-feed native display and video ads have become the gold-standard in the advertising industry, and with more and more brands realizing the potential of un-interruptive ads that fit the context of the user experience, integrations like this one between Sharethrough and Centro are fuelling the scale of the programmatic native market and bringing new buyers to the table,” said Alex White, VP of product marketing at Sharethrough. “Centro’s Basis, with its intuitive and integrated buy-side tools, will allow marketers to access these in-feed ad units and easily break down how they’re supercharging their ad investments.”
Centro’s Basis is next generation programmatic software that unifies digital media planning, buying and optimization across all programmatic and publisher-direct advertising. Benefits of buying native ads on the Sharethrough Exchange via Basis include:
“In-feed advertising on major social channels generates impressive brand-lift and engagement, and Sharethrough’s innovation allows brands to leverage it to reach targeted audiences across the web,” said Katie Risch, EVP of customer experience at Centro. “Combining Centro and Sharethrough technology gives marketers a system to harness the power of native ads and programmatic buying together and incorporate it with all other aspects of their digital advertising.”
About Centro
Centro (centro.net) is a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising organizations. Its Basis technology platform centralizes, organizes and automates all digital media campaigns across all channels, accessing both guaranteed and biddable inventory, to achieve any objective. Our holistic approach gives marketers a single system of record to fulfill their research, planning, buying, optimization, reporting and reconciliation needs. Headquartered in Chicago with 32 offices in North America, Centro has received numerous accolades for its commitment to employees and workplace culture.
About Sharethrough
Founded in 2008, Sharethrough is the leading global native advertising platform, helping publishers maximize revenue and brands earn meaningful attention by powering ads that fit into - rather than interrupt - the audience experience. Sharethrough's flagship product, Sharethrough for Publishers (SFP), is a Supply Side Platform that powers over three billion monthly ad impressions for the world's leading publishers, including CNN International, Time Inc., Scripps Networks Interactive, Wenner Media, USA Today Sports, and Forbes. Sharethrough is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, Detroit, London, Tokyo and Toronto.
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Contact:
Anthony Loredo
anthony.loredo@centro.net
310-573-8776
Chicago – August 23, 2017 – Centro (centro.net), a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising, today announced that Emily Barron, Ben Pashman and Katie Risch have been promoted to EVP roles. All have been longstanding members on Centro’s senior leadership team. Emily Barron, EVP of talent and development, is helping solidify the company’s enduring position as one of the best places to work in technology and advertising. Ben Pashman, EVP of corporate partnerships, continues to lead wide ranging integrations for Centro’s Basis system with partners in all areas of the ad tech ecosystem. Katie Risch, EVP of customer experience, is driving usage and adoption of Centro technology as a self-serve platform.
“Centro’s senior leaders are the driving force in taking Centro from early-stage startup to nationwide scale. Many of them have been with us for nearly a decade or more to help fulfill our mission of powering performance in the industry through automation,” said Scott Neslund, COO of Centro. “Emily Barron, Ben Pashman and Katie Risch’s promotions in our executive team showcase the enduring and potent qualities of Centro’s talent base.”
Emily Barron oversees Centro’s human resources. She is responsible for leading all human capital strategies in support of its business plan and strategic direction. Centro’s talent strategy includes a focus on employee lifecycle, which encompasses talent acquisition, onboarding, development and retention. Centro’s talent and development programs have contributed to Centro’s award-winning workplace that’s been recognized by Fortune, Advertising Age, Crain’s Chicago Business and Crain’s New York Business. Emily ascended to the talent and development team after 11 years at Centro building her career in digital media and overseeing multi-million dollar cross-channel ad spending from nationally-recognized brands. She was Centro’s second employee when she joined in 2004 as a media planner and buyer.
Ben Pashman leads Centro’s strategic partnerships with media and technology companies in video, social, mobile and more. He played a leading role in constructing the company’s programmatic advertising foundation through acquisition of a leading demand-side platform, which now generates a quarter of the company’s revenue. Ben has 15 years of digital media marketing experience. Prior to Centro, he served as the first business executive at Gigya, a leading social media SaaS technology company. Previous positions include senior sales and product management roles at DoubleClick, Conde Nast, and Travelzoo.
Katie Risch leads Centro’s customer experience organization as more and more brands, agencies and publishers rely on the company’s self-serve technology. She ensures that customers maximize their performance using Centro’s suite of software products. Katie has had a multi-faceted career within Centro. She was previously SVP of software client solutions and, before that, SVP of publisher solutions, leading strategic relationships with more than 10,000 publisher partners. She launched Centro’s audience extension business unit and the Centro Brand Exchange invite-only ad marketplace. She began her 13+ years at Centro as a media buyer.
Centro’s SaaS offering, Basis, helps agencies and brands improve campaign and business performance by unifying people and processes in one system for all digital media transaction methods. Agencies use it for ad-buying on publisher-direct, private marketplaces and open ad exchanges, which inform each other to help determine the best use of media investments. Basis drives unified media-buying to eliminate operational silos and reduce the time media professionals spend working on multiple, disconnected systems.
About Centro
Centro (centro.net) is a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising organizations. Its technology platform centralizes, organizes and automates all digital media campaigns across all channels, accessing both guaranteed and biddable inventory, to achieve any objective. Our holistic approach gives marketers a single system of record to fulfill their research, planning, buying, optimization, reporting and reconciliation needs. Headquartered in Chicago with 32 offices in North America, Centro has received numerous accolades for its commitment to employees and workplace culture.
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Contact:
Anthony Loredo
anthony.loredo@centro.net
646-462-4888
Chicago – July 26, 2017 – Centro (centro.net), a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising, today announced the promotion of Matt Miller to EVP of finance to oversee the company’s financial, real estate, IT, and legal operations. Matt has been at Centro for five years, during which he played major roles ushering two corporate acquisitions, a $30 million Series B round and office expansions in six cities throughout North America. Centro also promoted April Weeks to SVP of media services and operations. She now oversees 300 team members nationally in Centro’s managed services group that encompasses digital buying disciplines on all media channels and digital devices. Last year, this team stewarded $400+ million in digital media spend for clients.
“We established Centro as one of the most trusted partners in digital media because of our commitment to innovation, service, quality and fiscal responsibility. Driving their teams to fulfill these obligations fall on April Weeks and Matt Miller, who in the past few years have led their teams by example. These principles propelled Centro’s growth and allowed us to create technology that will serve as the nucleus for future generations of digital media businesses,” said Scott Neslund, COO of Centro.
April Weeks is assuming the role of leading Centro’s managed services team from Scott Neslund, who was elevated to chief operating officer at Centro. Prior to her new role, April Weeks had been at Centro since 2013 to serve as the regional VP for the managed services organization in the South. During her span in that role, regional revenue doubled, driven by expanded capabilities in programmatic advertising, mobile, paid search and paid social. Overall, the Centro managed services team now provides one of the industry’s most robust, holistic solutions combining advertising technology, expertise, and activation on all digital channels and devices.
Matt Miller has been a key architect in molding Centro as one of the most capital efficient companies in the advertising technology industry. Prior to Centro, Matt spent several years in investment banking with Duff & Phelps and BMO Capital Markets, focusing on mergers and acquisitions advisory and debt and equity financing for mid-sized growth companies. Matt holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a BS in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also a certified public accountant.
Centro’s technology brings a unique approach to programmatic advertising by unifying it with current media-buying operations persisting among agencies for two decades. Centro’s SaaS offering, Basis, helps agencies and brands improve campaign and business performance by unifying people and processes in one system for all digital media transaction methods. Through this technology, ad-buying on publisher-direct, private marketplaces and open ad exchanges inform each other to determine the best use of media investments. Unified media-buying eliminates operational silos and reduces the time media professionals spend working on multiple, disconnected systems.
About Centro
Centro (centro.net) is a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising organizations. Its technology platform centralizes, organizes and automates all digital media campaigns across all channels, accessing both guaranteed and biddable inventory, to achieve any objective. Our holistic approach gives marketers a single system of record to fulfill their research, planning, buying, optimization, reporting and reconciliation needs. Headquartered in Chicago with 32 offices in North America, Centro has received numerous accolades for its commitment to employees and workplace culture.
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Contact:
Anthony Loredo
anthony.loredo@centro.net
310-573-8776
Centro Powers Programmatic Advertising on Frankly’s Self-Serve Ad-Buying Platform; Television, Newsprint and Radio Companies Can Fulfill All Local Advertising Needs for Clients
San Francisco – July 24, 2017 – Frankly Inc. (TSX VENTURE: TLK | www.franklyinc.com), a leader in digital content distribution and ad monetization technology for local TV broadcast and media companies, today announced the launch of a data-driven audience targeting solution for local sales organizations. A trusted partner for over 200 local media websites, Frankly empowers local sellers to operate a one-stop-shop for marketers in order to compete for more ad budget. Television, newsprint and radio publishers receive capabilities to quickly scale campaigns, target audience segments precisely, and reach them through multiple ad units on any sites and apps on any device. Frankly selected Centro (centro.net), a digital media platform provider, as the programmatic advertising technology that powers its solution.
Local sales organizations need to diversify revenue as more ad dollars go online. For their local digital ad budgets, marketers prioritize vendors who can reach the majority of local audiences. Local sellers can’t compete for larger share of ad spend if they are limited in where they can reach audiences. Publishers can secure more of their clients’ media buys if they can provide a more complete solution, reaching targeted audiences onsite as well as extending their audience reach across the web and across devices. To enable this capability, Frankly is providing a robust programmatic ad-buying platform that’s adaptable to customer needs, goals and expertise.
“We’ve relied on both Frankly and Centro to collaborate on complete solutions that enable our sales team to take market share and augment revenue opportunities,” said Lisa Bishop, Heartland Media’s chief digital officer. “Adding a data-driven audience extension program to our repertoire of ad products differentiates our organization and showcases our capabilities in multi-media audience reach on traditional and digital channels.”
Frankly provides a complete audience solution so that local media companies never have to turn away RFPs and ad budgets. The solution includes:
“Frankly has longstanding relationships with local media companies and we understand the need to transform their sellers into powerful data-driven players in the emerging digital landscape,” said William Ammerman, global head of advertising, Frankly. “Together with Centro, we’re harnessing the power of data in programmatic advertising to bolster our customers’ advertising capabilities and command in their respective local markets. This partnership should yield revenue increases for Frankly and enable us to continue to grow share of wallet with our customers.”
Centro’s Basis provides programmatic advertising features that include:
“Frankly and Centro share a goal of helping television, newsprint and radio organizations thrive in the digital world. Frankly’s outstanding presence and expertise in the local media market helps Centro deliver the audience extension technology that empower publishers,” said Katie Risch, EVP of customer experience, Centro.
About Centro
Centro (centro.net) is a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising organizations. Its technology platform centralizes, organizes and automates all digital media campaigns across all channels, accessing both guaranteed and biddable inventory, to achieve any objective. Our holistic approach gives marketers a single system of record to fulfill their research, planning, buying, optimization, reporting and reconciliation needs. Headquartered in Chicago with 32 offices in North America, Centro has received numerous accolades for its commitment to employees and workplace culture.
About Frankly
Frankly (TSX VENTURE: TLK) builds an integrated software platform for media companies to create, distribute, analyze and monetize their content across all of their digital properties on web, mobile and TV. Its customers include NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX affiliates, as well as other leading media organizations. Collectively, Frankly reaches nearly 60 million monthly users in the United States. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with major offices in New York. To learn more, visit www.franklyinc.com.
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Frankly Contact:
Steve Chung, CEO
Frankly Investor Relations Contact:
Matt Glover or Najim Mostamand
Liolios Group, Inc.
949-574-3860
Centro Contact:
Anthony Loredo
310-573-8776
Centro Empowers Partners to Compete for a Larger Share of Digital Ad Budgets by Using Cross-Channel Advertising Solutions that Scale Campaigns and Reach Audiences on Any Site and Device
Chicago – July 19, 2017 – The Local Media Consortium (LMC), a strategic partnership of leading local media companies, today announced Centro (centro.net) as a preferred partner for audience extension solutions for its member companies. Centro, a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising, offers media companies robust services and software to execute audience extension for their advertisers. LMC is made up of 75 media companies that encompass 1,700 sites. LMC members who adopt Centro’s solution will be empowered to operate a one-stop-shop for their advertisers to quickly scale campaigns and reach any audience through a multitude of ad units and sites on any device. LMC members can strengthen their position to compete for a larger share of ad budgets.
Because advertisers value scale, it’s challenging for publishers to compete for large digital budgets if they only reach audiences on owned and operated sites. Furthermore, for local campaigns, marketers will prioritize vendors who can reach the majority of prospective local customers. Publishers have an opportunity to manage larger portions of their clients’ media buys if they can extend their audience reach across the web and across devices through a variety of ad products.
“Centro is a well-regarded partner for hundreds of publishers, evidenced by the longstanding relationships it has with many of our members and the overall brand recognition among our peers in digital media,” said Rusty Coats, executive director of the LMC. “We identified Centro as an ideal provider for our members because its solution offers robust capabilities that are adaptable according to an organization’s skill level and sophistication.”
As a preferred partner for LMC, Centro offers flexible pricing for the organization’s members and can activate its solutions within a couple of weeks. Centro works with members in two ways:
Centro’s audience extension solutions enable publishers to:
“The Local Media Consortium and Centro are unified towards a goal of strengthening local media organizations. The alliance has harnessed collective resources to find the right providers for all members,” said Katie Risch, EVP of customer experience at Centro. “As a pioneer in audience extension, Centro’s vast experience showcases our position as the ideal monetization partner for publishers.”
About Centro
Centro (centro.net) is a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising organizations. Its technology platform centralizes, organizes and automates all digital media campaigns across all channels, accessing both guaranteed and biddable inventory, to achieve any objective. Our holistic approach gives marketers a single system of record to fulfill their research, planning, buying, optimization, reporting and reconciliation needs. Headquartered in Chicago with 32 offices in North America, Centro has received numerous accolades for its commitment to employees and workplace culture.
About the Local Media Consortium
The Local Media Consortium is a strategic partnership of leading local media companies focused on increasing member companies’ share of digital revenue and audience by pursuing new relationships with a variety of technology companies and service providers. The LMC was founded in 2013 to address the needs of advertisers seeking to reach high-quality audiences on brand safe local digital properties at scale. In addition, the LMC provides members with access to leading technology and content solutions by fostering key partnerships with companies including Google, Monster, Yahoo and others. LMC membership encompasses more than 75 local media companies in top markets across the United States and Puerto Rico, and includes more than 1,700 publications. The LMC audience footprint currently spans 155 million unique monthly visitors and its member companies serve more than four billion page views to readers. More information is available at www.localmediaconsortium.com.
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Centro Contact:
Anthony Loredo
310-573-8776
LMC Contact:
Kristin Brocoff, Thatcher+Co.
kbrocoff@thatcherandco.com
949-400-4899
Adding Teads’ Outstream Technology to Centro’s Basis DSP Gives Marketers Variety in Video Ad Options; Digital Video Outstream Units Enable Highly Viewable Ads on Premium Editorial Content
Chicago – July 18, 2017 – Centro (centro.net), a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising, today announced an integration with Teads (www.teads.tv) to enable programmatic digital media buying of outstream video ads. Teads is the inventor of outstream video advertising and the No. 1 video advertising marketplace in the world. Its technology allows publishers to create more monetization opportunities by serving video ads that appear while users scroll through editorial articles online. Centro’s Basis, named a top DSP by software ratings site G2 Crowd, is making outstream video easier to buy at scale for agencies and marketers of all sizes. Basis is also available in a version that unifies digital media planning, buying and optimization across all programmatic and publisher-direct advertising.
Outstream video creates marketing opportunities on premium editorial content where there normally wouldn’t be video ad inventory. Digital video advertising is highly valued when it is served with professional-grade video content. However, many marketers can’t easily access this inventory because it sells out quickly to large marketers with high ad spend. By utilizing outstream video, marketers of any size can compete for audiences on premium editorial content and engage them through video advertising. Basis gives these marketers an easy way to access this inventory and seamlessly incorporate them for multi-channel campaigns.
“Teads and Centro are aligned in connecting high value advertising with premium content creators,” said Todd Tran, CSO at Teads. “Centro’s influence among agencies and marketers enables us to drive innovative thinking around audience engagement through digital video.”
Teads’ premium video inventory spans over 500 top-tier publisher sites globally, including Time Inc., Forbes, The Washington Post, Business Insider, The Atlantic, Le Monde, The Telegraph and more. With this inventory available through Basis, customers have the ability to utilize premium video ad inventory alongside campaigns that encompass multiple sites, channels and devices. Basis provides marketers with targeting options to control how they want these video ads to be served. Furthermore, the version of Basis that integrates all methods of buying provides agencies with a unified report to compare the performance of outstream video inventory with other inventory transacted programmatically or direct with publishers on different sites and devices.
“Teads is a pioneer and innovator in digital video advertising, and its reach is unmatched among premium publishers,” said Katie Risch, SVP of software client solutions, Centro. “By adding outstream video as yet another programmatic buying capability in a marketer’s toolset, we’re ensuring that our DSP delivers enterprise-grade features on an easy-to-use interface.”
About Centro
Centro (centro.net) is a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising organizations. Its technology platform centralizes, organizes and automates all digital media campaigns across all channels, accessing both guaranteed and biddable inventory, to achieve any objective. Our holistic approach gives marketers a single system of record to fulfill their research, planning, buying, optimization, reporting and reconciliation needs. Headquartered in Chicago with 32 offices in North America, Centro has received numerous accolades for its commitment to employees and workplace culture.
About Teads
Teads, founded in 2011, is the inventor of outstream video advertising and No. 1 video advertising marketplace in the world. Publishers work with Teads to create brand new video inventory and manage their existing inventory, monetizing it through programmatic buying, their own sales forces, or third parties.
Teads’ native video advertising solutions encompass a series of formats inserted deep into media content, like the inRead playing inside articles. It is changing the game within the video advertising market by creating unprecedented levels of premium inventory, which did not exist before.
Brands and agencies can access this top-tier, premium inventory, available on the web and on mobile, through programmatic or managed services. Through its managed services capabilities, the Teads team execute on its clients behalf using its platform.
Teads has a team of over 500 employees, 100 of whom are on the innovation team, across 27 offices in 21 countries.
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Contact:
Anthony Loredo
anthony.loredo@centro.net
310-573-8776
Complimentary Technologies Help Agencies Holistically Manage Their Business and Speed Processes; Enables Advantage Customers to Onboard Centro’s Basis, a Unified Programmatic Advertising Software
Chicago – July 17, 2017 – Centro (centro.net), a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising, today announced an integration of its Basis software platform with Advantage Software (www.gotoadvantage.com). A trusted provider for the media industry and widely used among agencies, Advantage offers enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suited for managing accounting, reconciliation and finance. Centro’s Basis is the only SaaS solution that boosts team and campaign performance by seamlessly unifying programmatic advertising alongside digital media planning, buying and optimization. Agencies using Advantage’s agency management system, AQUA, can now cleanly absorb media buying and delivery data generated from using Basis -- streamlining the resources needed for reconciliation. To request information on Basis, visit http://www2.centro.net/Basis.
Reducing the Burden of Reconciliation
Basis helps agencies maximize the value of their ERP software by enabling users to consolidate campaign media data and tailor it with the codes their finance teams use in AQUA. This reduces the manual labor for data entry to streamline resources needed for reconciliation. Data from media-buying does not normally translate easily to finance systems, making monthly and quarterly reconciliation into a major pain point for agencies. Other factors contribute to this friction:
“Advantage and Centro share a mission to build one of the most sophisticated software ecosystems for agencies and advertisers,” said Ellen Coulter, President of Advantage Software. “We admire Centro’s foresight in creating technology that elegantly blends together the day-to-day tasks of media professionals and naturally integrates with agencies’ existing software infrastructures.”
Advantage’s AQUA operations and finance software is widely used among advertising and media organizations. It has strong adoption among regional, independent agencies. Advantage’s 650+ customers can easily use Basis to improve digital media-buying and campaign performance while reducing the time needed for monthly reconciliation and billing.
The Basis technology platform empowers agencies with accurate, real-time reporting available on-demand because it tracks media delivery data daily and verifies it with contracts, no matter the buying tactic -- fixed CPMs or dynamic bid pricing. A short series of clicks generates the files for upload to AQUA, pre-programmed with specific codes to associate line items with appropriate clients and vendors.
Basis streamlines the reconciliation of dynamic pricing common to programmatic advertising because delivery reports are generated in real-time within the system. This gives campaign teams the most accurate reflection of what has been delivered by publishers, whether it’s a direct-buy or through real-time bidding channels. Agencies that outsource programmatic buying to different partners can also manage these vendors within Basis with the option to buy with a fixed or dynamic CPM. Agency media teams benefit by funneling all their partners’ data into a single system for easy management and organization.
“We admire the trust Advantage established with its customers, which was earned through superior solutions that affect business outcomes,” said Shawn Riegsecker, CEO of Centro. “The Centro-Advantage combination represents a next-generation media management system that transforms business operations into a differentiator and empowers agencies to strategically manage their entire organization.”
Centro is a recognized digital media-buying technology provider, having worked with 300+ regional, independent agencies in the past year. Its SaaS offering, Basis, automates and organizes the entire digital media process -- from planning to activation to performance to financial reconciliation -- via a single interface.
About Advantage
Advantage is the leading provider of enterprise-level software specifically designed for advertising agencies and marketing companies. Advantage automates all aspects of accounting, billing, project management, digital asset management, creative proofing, media management, and client relationship management with the specific needs of agencies and their clients in mind. Robust and customizable modules are fully integrated to streamline processes, ensure accuracy, and deliver excellent management reporting. Advantage Software is headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina.
About Centro
Centro (centro.net) is a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising organizations. Its technology platform centralizes, organizes and automates all digital media campaigns across all channels, accessing both guaranteed and biddable inventory, to achieve any objective. Our holistic approach gives marketers a single system of record to fulfill their research, planning, buying, optimization, reporting and reconciliation needs. Headquartered in Chicago with 32 offices in North America, Centro has received numerous accolades for its commitment to employees and workplace culture.
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Contact:
Anthony Loredo
anthony.loredo@centro.net
310-573-8776
Basis is on 2017 Trajectory of $500 Million in Digital Media Transacted through Platform; First Fully Integrated Programmatic and Media Management Software for Digital Advertising Industry
Chicago – July 10, 2017 – Centro (centro.net), a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising, today announced the rebranding of its self-serve platform to ‘Basis.’ Basis is a SaaS solution that boosts team and campaign performance by seamlessly unifying digital media planning, buying and optimization across all programmatic and publisher-direct advertising. Agencies and marketers are projected to transact more than $500 million in digital media through Basis in 2017. It is now generally available as the industry’s first all-in-one media system that fully integrates programmatic advertising and direct-to-publisher media buying and execution inside of one platform. More information about Basis is available at http://www2.centro.net/Basis.
The fragmentation of platforms and tools used for digital media buying and execution is straining agency businesses. It limits their performance and effectiveness in meeting ever increasing client demands. A typical agency employee manages at least seven different platforms to do their jobs. Media teams today waste precious time and resources attempting to connect disjointed processes and disparate platforms. Business leaders lack centralized data planning, insights and analysis across all aspects of their business in a singular, unified platform. Basis brings together all aspects of digital media management into a unified platform that boosts performance, productivity and intelligence across the entire media lifecycle. It automates and organizes the entire digital media process -- from planning to activation to performance to financial reconciliation -- via a single interface.
“Basis is redefining what it means to be ‘programmatic’ by going beyond RTB and applying full business automation and intelligence throughout the entire media process,” said Shawn Riegsecker, CEO of Centro. “Basis gives marketers the power to drive improved performance and outcomes by consolidating digital media workflow across search, social, RTB and direct. There is no other media platform or DSP with the extent of capabilities and functionality Basis brings to the industry.”
In addition to its award-winning DSP, Basis automates all programmatic and direct-to-publisher buying and brings in performance data across search and social campaigns so customers can see all performance via a single user interface. Basis is the most comprehensive and full-featured programmatic platform in the industry.
Key features of Basis include:
In addition to offering Basis as a self-serve platform, Centro utilizes Basis via a nationally-distributed managed services team dedicated to helping its customers achieve optimal performance outcomes.
Basis supports display, social, video and mobile channels, including smartphone and tablet apps, mobile web and mobile video campaigns. It includes integrations with all major data management software, data providers, ad servers and inventory suppliers. Within the past 12 months, 4600 media vendors have been active on Basis, capitalizing on direct advertiser demand coming through it.
Centro is one of the most scaled and capital efficient companies in advertising technology, having raised $52.5 million in venture capital, growing to 700 employees across North America, working with 2000 active customers and experiencing multiple years of profitability in its 15-year span. Centro seeks to grow further and has 40+ open positions in software engineering, sales, media services, business operations and marketing.
About Centro
Centro (centro.net) is a provider of enterprise-class software for digital advertising organizations. Its technology platform centralizes, organizes and automates all digital media campaigns across all channels, accessing both guaranteed and biddable inventory, to achieve any objective. Our holistic approach gives marketers a single system of record to fulfill their research, planning, buying, optimization, reporting and reconciliation needs. Headquartered in Chicago with 32 offices in North America, Centro has received numerous accolades for its commitment to employees and workplace culture.
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Contact:
Anthony Loredo
anthony.loredo@centro.net
310-573-8776