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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®
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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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"Great placements and reporting"
Excellent reporting metrics and dimensions
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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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KR
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What do you like best about Basis?

There are numerious training tutorials on the website that helps to learn just about anything about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Newer to Basis, but struggling a little bit to gain conversions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Basis helps with targeting Ads to the right customers and helping to create sales. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sok V.
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Director of Digital Strategy
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

The level and reliability of support on service tickets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

I know this may be coming but an easier ability to onboard custom algorithms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

How to efficiently bid on advertise and report on media spend for our clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Miguel G.
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What do you like best about Basis?

The onboarding team was amazing during our first contact with the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

The payment processing is not working for me but it's being reviewd by the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Providing great offer to our agency customers! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive
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What do you like best about Basis?

Vast selection of inventory. Able to run many different types of campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Campaign set up and optimization. Difficulties getting conversions to track correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Able to import different types of ad creative other DSPs cannot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Basis is very easy to use and their team will dedicate as much time as needed during the onboarding process to make sure you are comfortable with their platform before turning the keys over completely to you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

The account spending minimum does make Basis more unattainable for smaller advertising agencies, but is not so out of reach that the smaller agencies might not ever be able to use Basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Basis continually expands their product offerings and will also allow you to be apart of any beta testing that might be of interest to you. They have developed new reporting dashboards, are working on Digital Out Of Home and are also refining their current products at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Julie B.
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What do you like best about Basis?

Basis a great DSP option because it has low minimums and connects to practically all exchanges. The customer service team is very responsive and they are always making improvements to the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Reporting capabilities are limited. Does not integrate well with Looker Studio. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Basis is not only a DSP; it also serves as a media planning tool to track contracts and sync to outside data sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Basis?

The best features are the analytics section to check pacing and performance. You can filter by the metrics you want to see. Also, the reports are beneficial: by creative size, data segment, delivery and performance, and domains/exchange optimizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

I don't see opportunities to implement DOOH tactics. There are no dashboard views to create customized brand storytelling i.e., using media assets in an easy-to-use circuit by creating rules that would show ads in a controlled, predetermined way to your target audience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Basis support has helped us solve multiple PG/PMP issues we've faced with DV360. Often publishers do not know how to resolve DSP issues, so DSP support is critical. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bree R.
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What do you like best about Basis?

Basis is the only DSP that offers geotargeting for almost all geopolitical locations - including state senate and house districts. This has given us the flexibility to layer on additional 3rd party data segments and advertise to voters without waste. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Basis as a platform isn't the prettiest to look at, but once you have a handle on the platform, it's reliable and easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Basis is helping us solve the problem of limited CTV inventory by constantly keeping us in the loop on new opportunities and making CTV advertising scalable even when were limited to a small location. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JA
Senior Account Manager
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What do you like best about Basis?

The Basis platform is very easy to use/user friendly. Their dedicated customer success managers and team are always available to help when questions arise, and they have a ton of research on different verticals. I also appreciate the self-learn courses they offer through the Basis Institute that are always available to reference back to when necessary. They take your suggestions and recommendations into account and pass them along to their team to implement if possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

I don't have any cons to report at this time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Basis allows us to add other channels to the platform which is helpful to keep everything in one place. This allows us to keep better track of our budget, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Basis?

I love all the different options we have. Also, all the different certifications which help me understand the platform better and programmatic as a whole. The new Data Canvas is very cool as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Every time I try to download a report, it takes way too long to be available, and it just creates an inconvenience, especially in a fast-paced environment like advertising. The platform also has had too many glitches recently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

By providing a platform and support to achieve our client's needs depending on their KPIs and different startegies we can implement. I feel like there is a whole team behind our account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.