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Basis Overview

What is Basis?

Basis is everything you need to plan, buy, analyze and streamline your best-performing digital media campaigns. Basis is more than just streamlined media buying—Basis is a comprehensive and automated digital media platform. Using Basis means you can manage direct, programmatic, search & social through a single interface. With robust business intelligence, workflow automation, search & social integrations, and a top-rated DSP powered by artificial intelligence, it’s a platform you can run your entire digital business on top of. At the heart of Basis is our award-winning, omnichannel DSP built for speed and performance so your programmatic campaigns thrive. With optimizations supported by artificial intelligence, hyper-local targeting, an expansive PMP library, and easy to implement cross-device targeting - Basis was built to make you better. A 2021 AdExchanger Awards Best Education Program winner, our education and training curriculum enable teams to quickly improve their programmatic knowledge and skill sets. Robust fraud and brand protection prevent wasted investments and ensure confidence in your campaign performance.

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Product Description

Basis is the platform advertisers need to run successful online advertising across every channel.

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Basis is more than just a world-class DSP. It is a platform on which to run an entire digital media business, with robust business intelligence, workflow automation, and search and social integrations.

Our automation capabilities encompass:
• Campaign Management including full margin management with impression and ad serving fee estimations
• A Dashboard that highlights client or campaign priorities
• Collaboration Center as the main junction for all negotiations and communications
• Unified Inventory Directory provides data on media sellers and service providers
• Comprehensive Reporting automates pulling separate reports from ad servers; Basis uses API connections with the largest platforms, including ad servers, Facebook Ads, LinkedIn, GoogleAds and Bing
• Insights is a dynamic reporting feature to slice and dice data, apply custom filters, and subtotal data in numerous ways
• Financial system integrations including Strata (FreeWheel) and Advantage Software


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Year Founded
2001
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Chicago, IL
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@basisglobaltech
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1,391 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Basis Technologies is a global provider of media automation and programmatic advertising software and services for enterprises. The Basis platform consolidates digital operations across programmatic, publisher-direct, connected TV (CTV), search, and social to unify and streamline campaigns. Basis integrates otherwise disconnected processes, systems, and point solutions to create a seamless workflow and centralized system of record for digital advertisers. Headquartered in Chicago, Basis is renowned for its commitment to employees and workplace culture.


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Recent Basis Reviews

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Kaylee T.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Top Programmatic Platform"
Easy to use. Great team to back it all up.
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Great placements and reporting"
Excellent reporting metrics and dimensions
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Jessica C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great tool, and fantastic team"
I've used various Programmatic platforms, and what sets Basis apart is twofold: 1) The outstanding customer support. Their team always gets back...
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Basis Media

Basis Demo - Media Buying & Planning
The industry’s most comprehensive, intelligent, and automated digital advertising platform that addresses your direct, programmatic, search & social through a single interface.
Basis Demo - Collaboration & Messaging
Avoid switching between multiple platforms to communicate with clients, vendors, and coworkers. Basis keeps all correspondence, as well as previous and current RFPs and IOs, in one place to help you stay organized.
Basis Demo - Hyper-Local Targeting
GPS information pulled from individual mobile devices provides exact locations allowing you to target specific coordinates. Easily upload mobile device IDs and utilize various geo-fencing capabilities within Basis’ interface.
Basis Demo - Inventory Directory
Move easily from conception to execution, across all inventory types (direct, programmatic, search, and social) in one single platform. Basis comes with more than 9,000 vendors and 11,000 contacts.
Basis Demo - Business Intelligence & Campaign Analytics
Access accurate, real-time analytics across 180+ different data points. Save time by utilizing Basis’ unique drag and drop capabilities to create custom advertiser and campaign reports in a flash.
Basis Demo - Basis’ home screen dashboard
Helps you optimize you work by highlighting client or campaign priorities and informing your decision-making. One interface draws attention to necessary actions by showing an overview of proposals, insertion orders, line item pacing, campaign KPIs, comments from partners and clients, and more.
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Jessica C.
JC
Director of Account Growth
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

I've used various Programmatic platforms, and what sets Basis apart is twofold:

1) The outstanding customer support. Their team always gets back to us very quickly and proactively provides updates via email on updates to the platform, new partnerships, partnerships that are no longer available, and new product lines.

We see Basis as an extension of our team, helping with new business pitches and new product offerings for our clients.

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2) The breadth of product offerings and features under their umbrella (display, video, OTT/CTV, digital OOH, transit, radio, etc.) is impressive. I have not found this with other programmatic platforms, and find it extremely valuable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Reporting could use some slight improvement tweaks, but they are actively working to implement our suggestions. It's very usable as-is, could just be that much faster with these tweaks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Basis solving and how is that benefiting you?

When MediaMath filed Chapter 11, we were so happy to have started using Basis. So in that regard, it solved a potentially BIG problem for us!

They have helped us to inherently understand the ever-changing landscape of programmatic so we can stay abreast of the latest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Edward G.
EG
Head of Digital Marketing
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

The Basis Standalone DSPis a pretty simple and relatively easy platform to learn. While I knew alot about programmatic, I always "had people for that". In my new role, I had to learn to be hands on keyboard across the entire programmatic landscape. Using the Basis platform has allowed me to easily learn how to create programmatic campaigns across display, audio, online video, CTV and more. And, whenever i needed help, a human in customer service from the Basis help center was always there. And, the other thing we like about the platform, is that there is no minimum spend. This allows our small businss clientele the opportunity to test and learn about a new medium that they had never tried before and know very little about. Hats off to BASIS! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

I have found Basis to be very good. Nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Basis solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Basis Standalone DSP platform is allowing us to serve our small business clients in new media. And it is saving us the time, effort and investment capital of creating our platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Basis?

# You can clearly see and search the entire marketplace of inventory, without being hussled over to generic targeting strategies .

**Snappy, information dense UI**

- Their UI is fantastic in the boring way in which it gives you all the information you need, loads quickly, and doesn't waste your time. It's information dense and practical.

**🔥🔥 Docs**

- The documentation is not just technical facts, it's written well by a team (or potentially just one rockstar, who knows) that undetstands why you would be reading it and explains why they did things the way you did, and what you should do to accomplish whatever your goal is.

**The quality of people we interact with there are second to none.**

- Our technical coverage team is really good, and especially good at getting the relevant expert to opine when that could be the right move.

- Our sales coverage will go out and help us secure PMP or PG deals with pubs directly, saving us a ton of time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

CTV needs work. A lot of work.

Growing number of pre-set deals availalble (thousands), but there need to be more still. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Basis solving and how is that benefiting you?

the DSP let's us implement our own ad buying strategy, without forcing us into some mold. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jeff W.
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What do you like best about Basis?

The ease of use of the platform and the support team... they respond quickly and takes an educational approach. The Basis platform has all the features to fits all types of campaign sizes and makes it easy to optimize and adjust on the fly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Basis has easy to use API integrations that allow you to integrate with 3rd party dashboards but I wish Basis would develope a dashboard of their own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Basis solving and how is that benefiting you?

Basis is a multi-channel DSP that has advanced features... With Basis our buyers are able to set up and manage more campaigns than before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
AM
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

Basis DSP is one of the most ituative and wasy to use DSP's that I've used; Implementation and execution of campaigns, the number of integrations in the platform, and the number of features make my day to day easier and allows me time to really focus on the clients goal and the final outcome of the campaign. The best thing about Basis is all of the resources provided to you to be successful. Their help and resource centers are top notch and their customer support is top teir. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

It's honeslty hard to come up with something I dislike about Basis. There are a few features that I wish functioned differently for ease of use, but understand why they are the way they are. These are just things that would be nice to have customized to how I use the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Basis solving and how is that benefiting you?

Basis provides us with a slew of products to offer our clients and it's all housed in one DSP. We don't have to use multiple platforms or DSP's in order to fulfill our clients campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MA
Senior Digital Media Strategist
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

I've had the pleasure of using Basis for four years now and they have exceeded my expectations in every way. As an agency looking to streamline our clients' digital advertising efforts, Basis has been an invaluable partner. The platform is incredibly user-friendly, the solutions are comprehensive and the customer support (specifically George Leff) is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

There isn't much to dislike about Basis, although certain platform integrations can take a long time to come into effect. This is a minor inconvenience that doesn't overshadow the overall benefits and functionality that Basis provides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Basis solving and how is that benefiting you?

Basis simplifies the complex process of media planning and buying by providing a unified platform for all of our clients. This saves us significant time and reduces the potential for errors. The advanced and varying targeting capabilities ensure our ads reach the right audience, increasing engagement and ROI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KT
Digital Strategist
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

Easy to use. Great team to back it all up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Still have not found something that I don't like about Basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Basis solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're in healthcare so Basis allows us to use more precise targeting since we are not allowed to do any form of retargeting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Basis?

Wide range of targeting options in platform, easy to use, the customer success teams (both regular support and CSOD) are quick to respond and provide complete, helpful information.

Very rarely do I work with a platform on which the support teams go above and beyond to help strategize targeting tactics. The norm these days for other platforms seems to have become providing scripted responses such as "spend more money," whereas Basis support understands agencies work with fixed budgets and need to get the most out of them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

There's no way in-platform to gauge what settings are restricting spend/pacing. It would be extremely helpful if there was a way to understanding what specific settings are restricting a campaign from spending, or at least a clue as to what could be causing it.

Sometimes this can take a while to diagnose on your own or just having to wait on a repsonse from the support team (who are quite quick to respond, but sometimes you just want to resolve the issue immediately on your own). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Basis solving and how is that benefiting you?

Staying current with industry trends. Constantly updating the platform with new, useful features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rodrigo T.
RT
Head of Audio
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

The DSP works very smothly, with no campaign problem so far. Great support from all team and with great updates and tips.

Really proactive on showing new features and investigating our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

There are 2 things that we missi on Basis right now. First is the connection with SoundCast our SSP and we the other is that ID5 is not implemented yet. I know these 2 features are being descussed and I'd love to have them implemented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Basis solving and how is that benefiting you?

Connect and deliver Audio campaings in all 14 different countrires we work with and allso all supply Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kaylee T.
KT
Digital Strategist
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

The options that Basis provides in terms of targeting, campaigns, and even support is super helpful. They are great with checking on campaigns when we have questions. Using the platform is also fairly easy once you get the hang of the layout and all things available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Truthfully - we haven't seen many downsides to the platform yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Basis solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allowing us to target in new ways and reach audiences in different ways (digital out of home) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.