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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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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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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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What do you like best about Basis?

The combination of a simple UI and sophisticated capabilities that lend themselves to local campaigns is perfect for our business needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

There are a couple small complaints, mainly around reporting capabilities and the excessive work that needs to go into creating reports directly from the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Organized and effective distribution for local campaigns. The simple execution within the platform is just right for my small team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Ease of use. Been very pleased with the dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Reporting limitations. Many reports are limited to 45 days but I'm being told that they're extending that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's perfect for clients with smaller budgets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Basis?

Easy to use, great support if there are ever questions, they take client feedback & suggestions seriously Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

some quirky things, i dont like that the campaign being viewed changes if i update a date range (but i recognize these are the kinds of things that can be suggested) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

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What do you like best about Basis?

Really appreciate granular the targeting is with hyperlocal campaigns. The setup is extremely easy and the reporting for it is also very simple as well. Making changes and optimizations are smooth, which is why we continue to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Tracking and optimizing for CPC campaigns is somewhat challenging based on how the budget management is set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Basis:

Continue to work on streamlining the workflow for set up and reporting. Having city-based reporting is really key for many users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Using the inventory research as been really helpful to see what prices some of our properties are clearing at on the exchange. It also provides a guide in terms of how much we should be pricing our products at in addition to seeing where there is activity and avails growing or declining for certain publishers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hillary S.
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Newspapers
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What do you like best about Basis?

Centro's internal team for publishers is great! Each member is constantly optimizing for the success of your client, and they're always keeping you in the loop with any changes or updates with the digital campaigns.

In addition, they have so many options for us, and our advertisers to take advantage of. Primarily, we use Centro's search and site retargeting, programmatic, and social media advertising options. In the past, we focused primarily on their Geo-fencing capabilities, but we've since switched to Simpli.fi due to better targeting capabilities for our advertisers. Plus, Simpli.fi has lower minimums that can really help our advertisers with a tighter budget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Their minimums are a little high for the advertisers in our market. If they could lower those, we could service more advertisers in our market.

They also don't seem to be keeping ahead of the innovations in the digital sphere. For example, we used Centro's geo-targeting solutions pretty heavily when we launched their products in our market, but since then, we've switched to another partner, Simpli.fi, because they have a more targeted approach to that advertising. For example, Simpli.fi can serve a mobile ad on a device as soon as someone enters a store, Centro cannot. Simple.fi can also geo-fence just a section within a store, like targeting the flooring section of Lowes, for example. Centro just can't keep up with these changes and they're getting outpaced by smaller startups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We're using Centro to serve ads across multiple platforms, taking advantage of their DSP. Specifically, we serve geo-targeted digital campaigns, search and site retargeting campaigns, programmatic buys, plus contextual and social advertising options as well. With so many products, we're able to really put a great proposal in front of our advertisers to help their businesses grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Adam Kaiser of Basis

Thank you for the feedback. In the case of footfall attribution, we work with a number of vendors (specifically, Cuebiq and Placed) to achieve this. Simpli.fi has this capability built into their UI which understandably makes the process smoother from a use case point of view. However, we still very much have these capabilities and are working diligently to smooth up the process and get these tools integrated into the UI. If there are other specific tools that you feel are missing, we’d love to hear what you’re looking for!

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What do you like best about Basis?

The ease of use and customer service. Always willing to help you and provide suggestions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Reporting function is good, but I would like to have it have more organizational options and to set up automated reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Basis:

Get at least one person to become the champion and understand the ins and outs of the system and the sales process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Doing real time buying in house instead of through a third-party vendor. Gives us a lot of ways to make the product work for our clients and seeing them stay on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Heather S.
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Senior Digital Media Specialist
Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

Ease of use, helpful customer service, the upgrades to the platform have been great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

The linking of the creative is time consuming. It's an extra step that doesn't need to be there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

able to provide our clients with hyper local targeting options and mobile in-app solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael M.
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Publisher / Corporate Digital Director
Newspapers
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What do you like best about Basis?

I value the sales and technical support! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Pricing can be tough for smaller markets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Basis:

Make sure you have your own house in order to succeed with the tools Centro provides. It's a poor musician who blames the instrument. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Using Centro, I'm able to expand my portfolio of digital products to compete with any advertising challenger in any market I choose to pursue without having to worry that I may be outgunned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bryan G.
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Digital Marketing Account Manager
Marketing and Advertising
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What do you like best about Basis?

I like the fact that for minimum input, you have the bells and whistles of a dsp. I also love the real time reporting that is available. It makes short flights a lot easier to manage and flight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

It is very clunkly and slow. It is a trade off for the speed of reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Basis:

Allow for atleast 24 hours for creative approval. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It allows me to go beyond the gdn and expand my display capabilities with 3rd party audiences etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Basis?

Ease of use. We're able to set campaigns up in about 5 minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

The "spend evenly" feature could be much simpler a la Facebook. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We're seeing excellent CPM in great inventory across all networks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.