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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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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

The best attribute about Basis is the ability to target granularly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

My least favorite attribute about Basis is the ambiguity of geo targeting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Basis:

None Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are able to effectively drive successful programmatic campaigns for our clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KJ
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

The interface. No other dsp has quick and easy to use interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

There is no scheduled reporting still after 4 years of being an active user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Basis:

Give it a 3 month try. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The ability to keep cost down and still get great results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CP
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
What do you like best about Basis?

Their support from our Customer Success Manager is top notch! Always giving us the latest trends in the industry and whenever we have an issue, she responds very quickly and with solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Great platform - however I consider myself a "power user" of most tools so when I can't bulk upload/update a large quantity of ads, it slows me down. Although they do have some bulk features, if you work with thousands of ads, this can be a challenge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Driving qualified traffic to our site for purchase and/or brand awareness campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
AM
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What do you like best about Basis?

The platform is very intuitive and the service received is top notch. Our account manager, Jeff, is easy to reach and always points us in the right direction. Jeff goes above and beyond to help our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

My team would like to have an inventory tool to forecast inventory layered with specific data segments and geos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Basis DSP is our only in-house display platform. It helps us build programmatic display solutions for our clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Basis?

Still being trained on the software, but I know it will be something I use frequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Haven't had a chance to play with the system to dislike anything yet. :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Digital/Mobile media buying Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
AM
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What do you like best about Basis?

The broad range of exchanges we can access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

The constant discrepancies in reporting between basis and other tools (like google analytics or client's crm). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Basis:

Make sure you work on the up-front setup to ensure your ROI is tracking properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are solving a problem of not being able to advertise on google due to a client's classification as a weapon (TASER), and are expanding their brand awareness and audience targeting abilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JK
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

The platform is incredibly easy to use and can be taught to anyone. Setting up new campaigns is quick and for the most part once it is setup it can be left alone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Functionally there is nothing that I dislike. My biggest negative is the CPM we are paying for impressions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is a quick and easy platform to post ads. This saves us a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness
AH
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

I appreciate the tool for a number of reasons. The tool is simple to setup and there are a number of campaign types to choose from. I can add creative with ease and I can make optimizations on the fly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

I wish there was a way to make updates via mobile, as well as check results quickly without being by a desktop computer. As well, I have discovered a number of outside vendors that charge me on a CPM. Since I have hard costs to adhere to (that I use for both net costs for the dsp as well as the costs for these tools) it is very challenging to juggle that money. For example: if I am running at a more efficient CPM, I'll hit more impressions, which makes my costs go up for these outside vendors. It's actually a huge issue and a constant daily balancing act that could easily be fixed by adding some type of fixed cost CPM within the tool to ensure my minimums would not go over. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Basis:

I think it is a good tool to use for display ads. I do think there is a lot more that I can start doing that I am still working through. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Business problems being resolved are minimums. Some of our clients cannot adhere to minimums with some vendors we typically use. With this tool we are able to implement our own minimums as well as use similar tactics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrew B.
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Digital Campaign Manager
Broadcast Media
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

The ease of use of the platform is great. I've worked in other DSP's and Centro/Basis is one of the easiest to use. Their mulit-update feature and bulk creative upload are great. I work with Matt Kershaw, Alyssa Hamm, and Mike Smith. They are an excellent support staff and have been nothing, but helpful when it has comes to any questions I may have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Honestly, I can't think of anything I dislike about this platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

n/a Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Real Estate
AR
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

The ease of use in placing display ads. Kallie, my CSM and my account manager did an awesome job when we first signed on, at explaining, and guiding me through the process, which I was able to thoroughly understand (because of their patience), and am now able to easily maneuver through the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

My only 2 recommendations for the overall platform would be seeing what my primary conversion is, by just hovering over the number, rather than clicking on conversions. My second recommendation would be to find a way to minimize the number of clicks for a user to move through the campaign performance information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I've been able to add an additional touch point to how we connect with our clients. I've been able to better track how many visits our page gets per day, based on various actions. DSP has pushed me to dig deeper into our overall company analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.