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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
HQ Location
Chicago, IL
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@basisglobaltech
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1,391 employees on LinkedIn®
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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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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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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.)
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"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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Digital Marketing Manager
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

Transparency, slice performance data however you want it, excellent client support, extremely user friendly and intuitive, and Basis consistently releases new features that are valuable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

I'd like to see more reporting enhancements on the product road map Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Endless targeting options for every channel, always a way to achieve scale Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael P.
MP
Director of Digital Media
Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Basis?

70+ ad networks, 30+ data partners, pinpoint geo-targeting down to 5m. Awesome location based remarketing capabilities through Factual. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Steep learning curve to figure out how to use the system optimally. Luckily Basis provides fantastic training both at setup and on-going to keep us using it like pros.

Also no out of the box customer match type solutions. Have to use a 3rd party vendor which incurs additional costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Basis:

Basis DSP is the best way to access programmatic display at a SMB friendly spend level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We work with a lot of local businesses who don't have the budgets to support the minimum spends of most ad networks. With Basis DSP the minimum spends are much more palatable for local ad spends which have allowed us to offer programmatic display campaigns that really take advantage of today's data-driven landscape. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BF
digital marketing manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

Excellent hands-on customer service make this super powerful platform approachable. Incredible targeting capabilities in a sleek interface - we love it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Facebook conversions don't match up which is hard because we want to be able to pull a reporting from this platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Granular targeting is important for our performance-based digital marketing agency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Timothy W.
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Director of Ad Operations
Broadcast Media
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Basis?

Far and away the best feature of Basis DSP is the support. The Centro team has been instrumental in training my sales teams on Programmatic Advertising. They've also been very receptive to our feedback and feature requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

The UI is clunky and outdated. There are also issues pulling reports over any length of time. We've had to contact them directly to get lifetime reports for some of our longer campaigns (<1 year flights). Maybe I'm just spoiled by a decade of DFP, but there's a lot of reporting metrics that just aren't available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Basis:

Do your due diligence. Basis is a great basic DSP but it may not be right for you if you have deep reporting needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Basis DSP for our Programmatic product line as well as for some internal marketing initiatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MM
Director of Ad Operations
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

Easy to use platform and customer service is outstanding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Only thing is I can't upload keywords myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Basis:

Better targeting, easy to use and understand, and customer support is unmatched. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Basis to schedule all of our ads online from GEO, Search/SIte, BT/CT and video. Amazing results!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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UM
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What do you like best about Basis?

I like the main dashboard and insights feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Still learning, but figuring out analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Ease with managing ad campaigns, having it all in one place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eric N.
EN
SVP, Media Director
Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

our account manager is amazing. never have to wait for a response and keeps the team up to date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

some of the UI elements could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

everything. Basis has been very versatile for us to match solutions to needs based on each campaign. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christopher M.
CM
Digital Media Coordinator
Marketing and Advertising
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Basis?

I really enjoy the ease of use, we are only utilizing the self-serve platform but everything is fairly straight forward and there is plenty of metrics you can apply to dig deeper if desired. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Maybe mike the layout a little more inviting, it does seem a bit out dated as far as view-ability. But this is more of a cosmetic change, everything we use it for is very ideal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Basis:

Definitely give this product a try, we have seen quality results while not using a big chunk of our spend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have actually driven a few checkouts which is one of our primary KPI. As compared to other partners and the amount of effort and time we are putting in with them, Centro is outperforming them while requiring less of our time to dedicate to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LW
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Basis?

My favorite thing about Basis DSP is definitely the huge amount of support I know that I will have from them. From a small "where do I find this button?" question, to strategic support and resources for pitching new business, my questions are answered quickly and thoroughly every time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

There are some small fiddly things that can cause day-to-day annoyance. There's no way to include 3rd Party CPM charges, so daily budgeting involves more calculations on my end than I would prefer. And while I can set up dayparting, tactic start/end dates are only scheduled by day, not time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Basis DSP gives me a great overview of all digital tactics I have running across many different clients, which keeps me organized and prevents anything from falling through the cracks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LD
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Basis?

The platform is easy to use and relatively straight forward with the use of hierarchy for campaign structure. We love working with our Customer Success Manager, as she seems to always have an idea or solution for the types of campaigns we're running. Whenever I've had an issue, the Support team always responds quickly to my request and 99% of the time comes to a fast solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

The reporting tools could be more robust. There are so many factors we're laying into campaigns - from audience or contextual targets, to PMPs, etc. I wish there were more customizable elements to the reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We've been able to streamline all of our programmatic buying in one platform, with more transparency and budget flexibility than using a managed service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.