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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®
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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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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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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John R.
JR
Principal and Owner
Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Basis?

Strong reach

Breadth of options

Targeting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

User interface takes a while to master it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Targeting at scale and broad reach for a small-business client Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With Basis, variant is successfully using multiple two-person pods to efficiently service media, thanks to the plethora of workflow optimization tools. Without Basis, variant estimates it would take at least a six-person team to run various strategic accounts. Having smaller, more effective media teams enables the other team members to pursue new business, focus on strategy, and build meaningful client relationships. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Would like Basis to develop more robust campaign visualizations we could then pass along to our clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Overall efficiency has allowed us to streamline processes allowing us to our extra bandwidth in meaningful ways instead of remedial tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I really like the control and transparency I get into my ad campaign and performance. We are able to customize our campaigns and targeting methods from beginning to end. The support I receive from my CSM (Customer Success Manager) is invaluable. Selvin Cunningham, you are the man! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

More data visualization. When pulling specific reports it may be easier to digest if they are presented in graphs, or charts instead of in the raw data form. The dashboard could also be optimized to look better visually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cost efficiency - when looking at the CPM and CPC we are able to attain it is much better than working through other channels. Basis is a great tool for optimizing campaigns as well, as it does a great job of tracking key metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RS
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Basis?

Ability to make quick updates and check performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

No month-over-month comparisons, having to queue reports to check more in-depth metrics takes a lot of time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Quickly scaling client's campaigns and extending reach Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Damien L.
DL
SVP, Digital Media Director
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

We use several martech platforms and none provide the responsive customer service the Basis team does. That platform UX is fairly easy to use and intuitive, for the most part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

While we love the great customer service, we wish we didn't need to use it as much. The platform has some great features that you don't find with other DSP's but there are some inconsistencies. The UX is easy to use, yet some things aren't intuitive to find. The campaign/initiative/tactic hierarchy setup is clunky and clearly a remnant of past Basis iterations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The connection to valuable data partners like Factual and Lotame has been a game changer for a small agency like ourselves. Basis allows us to compete with digital shops 10 times our size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Renewables & Environment
UR
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

During the customer renewal phase, I moved my agency's show capability from a controlled service company to base 2 months ago. The approach we designed the Basic features has positively led to consumer engagement and fulfillment. The platform's scope, versatility and openness is crucial at this stage in attracting and rising customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Basis team is still responsive and eager to collaborate on solutions to overcome the problems we encounter with consumers or the app. We have started to work with them to evolve the trying to report control panel, yet they have cleared up many of initial monitoring requests that we had. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Basis:

Their preparation systems and administrative support workers make mastering the software one of several best interactions I have had relative to some other datuk company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Basis allows me to rapidly and effectively execute programmatic initiatives. It can offer a fast turn when we unexpectedly obtain the assignment from the company big. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: G2 invite
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What do you like best about Basis?

dashboard and UI, customer support , 3rd party data + more! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Some manual things, pacing and reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Basis:

Basis is the perfect all-around DSP that supports small to big business models. Access to third party data, amazing customer support and a beautiful easy to use UI with consistently updated features and upgrades to help advertisers and businesses to their jobs effectively. I highly recommend Basis for your programmatic advertising needs. 10/10! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Some issues with pacing but there's tons of data and optimizations! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Audra H.
AH
Digital Strategist
Public Relations and Communications
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Basis?

The platform gives users a significant amount of control over ads and optimization, and once you learn how to navigate the interface, it's fairly easy to use. There are great targeting segments, no shortage of exchanges, and relatively simple optimization tools. The number of categories for creative is incredible — from the usual static image/video to GIFs, HTMLs, audio files, and more. The customer service is superb — our representative goes above and beyond to make himself available and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

The UX design can definitely be improved. There's a learning curve to understanding the interface and the terms it uses, and I wish the platform offered more guidance on terminology and process natively within the system. There are several places where I wish there was an "undo" button, or a way to "select all" (e.g. targeting, optimization). There are places where it's not entirely intuitive which button to press for certain actions. There's a learning curve with every interface, and thankfully for Basis, the customer service is always just a quick email or phone call away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

More so than many other advertising platforms, Basis helps us achieve very tailored audience targeting, higher completion rates and 10-second video views for video ads, and an interface that can monitor multiple platform budgets from a single page (Facebook, Google, DSP). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The Customer service is extremely responsive and so helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

UI is slow and clunky. There are no easy ways to access creatives or pixels that belong to the advertiser or even client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We needed a way to respond quickly to client requests and have access to high-quality data while we grow as an agency. Basis has helped solve those concerns for us so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Basis?

Ease of use, accessibility to everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Basis?

Nothing stands out as of yet - too early to say! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Simply learning how to best optimize campaigns and fine-tune locations and audiences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.