The Data Dilemma: Why is Programmatic Media Buying So Expensive?

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In speaking to an agency prospect recently, I heard that the data costs layered on top of the media CPM can hover as high as 30-40%. These extraneous fees are charged for EACH media execution- regardless of the outcome yielded. Intelligence in programmatic media to ensure correct placement in the right inventory is important – but should an advertiser have to pay for each media execution a separate sum that is additional to the cost of media? 

Data providers have long been playing  this intelligence by dCPM method for each media buy. Enter consumr.ai, , which provides cost efficiency and intelligence in programmatic advertising by leveraging advanced consumer insights and a fixed annual SaaS (Software as a Service) fee model. 

The limitations of dCPM

dCPM offers real-time adjustment capabilities, ensuring advertisers pay based on the category or competitiveness of the vertical. While this mechanism provides several benefits, it comes with notable drawbacks: 

  1. Increasing Costs: Each media buy can significantly increase costs as the bid prices fluctuate with market demand, given the dCPM might be flat by category but is padded on the CPM from the auction of where the media is purchased (DSP); ie competitive marketplace. 
  2. Lack of Predictability: Budgeting becomes challenging as costs are unpredictable and can spike during high-demand periods. 

consumr.ai addresses these challenges by offering a robust, data-driven alternative. Here is how: 

Fixed Annual SaaS Fee: 

  • Predictable Costs: Unlike dCPM, consumr.ai charges a fixed annual fee. This approach eliminates the unpredictability of fluctuating costs, allowing for better budgeting and financial planning. 
  • Unlimited Intelligence: The annual fee provides access to unlimited intelligence, ensuring that costs do not increase with each media buy. Think of how advertisers can now generate intelligence based on competitor conquesting, complementary products/services, and/or recent news events that could be relevant contextually for the advertiser’s ads to be present on. 

Comprehensive DSP Support: 

The table provided in the screenshot outlines the targeting options available for different DSPs. Here is a breakdown of how consumr.ai supports targeting in these platforms:

Cross-Platform Insights: By supporting various DSPs, consumr.ai provides cross-platform insights (born from cohort based social media based observed deterministic behavior) that help optimize ad spend and targeting strategies, maximizing ROI across the abovementioned DSPs.

Granular Consumer Insights:

  • Deterministic Data: Unlike traditional tools relying on sampled data, consumr.ai uses deterministic data based on actual content consumption and social & search behaviors. This approach ensures more accurate and granular insights. 
  • Privacy-First Approach: Consumr.ai is built to be 100% privacy-compliant, leveraging cohort-based data without touching any personally identifiable information (PII). This ensures adherence to GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) standards while providing detailed consumer insights. 

Ease of Implementation:

  • Quick Onboarding: consumr.ai boasts a 60-second implementation time, allowing businesses to start gaining insights almost immediately. This quick setup reduces downtime and accelerates the time to value. 
  • User-Friendly Platform: The platform is designed for ease of use, with intuitive interfaces and minimal learning curves, enabling users to derive maximum benefit from its features with minimal training.

Actionable Intelligence:

  • Real-Time Data: consumr.ai captures data in real time, providing immediate insights that can be directly applied to optimize campaigns. For this reason, given the recommendations are not a snapshot of a time in the past, it allows for the most current set of URLs/articles, Keywords searched, YouTube videos watched or Affinity segments (acknowledging that certain DSPs charge to utilize Affinity based targeting) born from recent social media observed behavior to be surfaced!  
  • Integrated Activation: Insights from consumr.ai can be directly pushed into advertising platforms like Google DV360, Google Ads, The Trade Desk among others, facilitating seamless campaign activation and real-time adjustments. For other DSPs, as long as their input includes parameters such as Keywords, URLs (domain or full length), YouTube videos and/or categories/affinity/IAB affinity segments – manually utilizing the output from consumr.ai can be utilized until a formal activation path is scoped.

Advanced Content and Keyword Targeting:

  • YouTube and Keywords: For platforms like Google Display & Video 360, Demand Generation (Google Ads) consumr.ai supports targeting by YouTube videos and keywords, enabling advertisers to reach users based on specific content consumption and search behaviors. 
  • Site-Level Targeting: The ability to target specific URLs and domains enhances the precision of ad placements, ensuring that ads are shown on relevant sites and content, optimizing for higher engagement and conversion rates. 

Being comfortable with the norm even if it might disagree with your conscience is a factor of not having a healthy alternative – allow consumr.ai to be that alternative to see it resolves the advertisers need for intelligence on programmatic while being lighter on the wallet. 

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