Easily manage your ads with Ad Manager

Take control of your advertising strategy with Ad Manager, our easy-to-use, self-service platform that empowers you to create, manage, and optimise digital campaigns effortlessly.

- Targeted advertising:
Reach specific audiences based on detailed demographic and behavioural data.
- Flexible budgeting
:
Set your budget and only pay for results.
- User-friendly interface:
No technical expertise needed, just straightforward tools for campaign creation and management.
- For businesses of all sizes:
Ad Manager simplifies your path to advertising success.

Dive into one of the chapters below and see how Ad Manager works.

More media value

Brand safety

Better campaign results

Wondering how Ad Manager can make your next campaign even more effective and efficient? It’s easy. Contact us here.

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Why trust us?

Full control and 30% faster

Agencies and advertisers get full control over their ad campaigns. We built an intuitive and user-friendly interface that allows you to work 30% faster than leading media buying platforms.

More media value and future-proof targeting

We optimise the complex digital supply chain by eliminating third-party intermediaries. In return, advertisers get up to 100% media value as additional tech costs are eliminated. Ad Manager works on the basis of our own first-party ID and gives you access to DPG Media's first-party data. In other words, it’s completely free of third-party cookies.

Access to Seamless Ads & Video

Ad Manager provides access to unique Seamless Ads. These impactful ads - which are not available in programmatic - can be designed quickly and effortlessly via the built-in Ad Studio. The performance of Seamless Ads is five times higher when compared to standard IAB formats.

Substantial cost savings and better campaign results

Successful pilots with TUI, Galler, Semetis, Colruyt, Bosch and others have shown that Ad Manager provides 39% lower cost per thousand visible impressions (vCPM) and 43% lower cost per conversion (CPA) compared to other buying platforms.

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Key benefits

Want to set up, manage and optimise your digital ad campaigns? Perfect. That’s exactly what you can do with DPG Media’s Ad Manager, in the North and South of our country.

A fast and effective self-service advertising platform

With Ad Manager, everything just comes together: our investments in first-party data, new and impactful ad formats, an independent technical infrastructure and premium content. The platform also makes full use of DPG Media's first-party data and is seamlessly integrated with Datalab. Advertisers can upload and activate their own CRM data or build custom segments. From now on, advertisers also benefit from extended targeting options in all browser and app environments, as the platform works without third-party cookies and identifiers.

Customer speaking

‘DPG Media's Ad Manager platform is a credible, test-based alternative that answers advertisers’ digital challenges!The combination of human intelligence and technological optimisation leads to better results."

Antoine Carré, Programmatic Hub Director of Havas Media

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Why choose Ad Manager

First of all, a big part of the budget you spend on programmatic systems today goes to technical fees. According to the latest ANA (Association of National Advertisers, Q4 2023) study, these can amount to 29% of the available media budget. A lower budget is obviously felt in the impact and in the results of your campaign.

Secondly, another 35% of the media budget can be lost due to a non-optimal set-up. Think of media buying on domains that generate a lot of invalid traffic or contain many non-viewable or non-measurable impressions.

The final challenge for media buying via programmatic in open auctions is the rise of Made for Advertising (MFA) websites. These websites are designed to show as many ads as possible, while offering little value to the customer and chipping away at the media budget from trusted partners and publishers.With all of this in mind, DPG Media developed Ad Manager. The goal was to develop an ad platform based on 3 pillars:

A better supply chain

With Ad Manager, we bring change to an inefficient and non-transparent supply chain with multiple intermediaries. The platform is directly connected to our Ad servers. Advertisers can now spend 100% of their media budget without having to worry about additional costs. It’s a win-win!

An easier buying process

We wanted to give media agencies and advertisers access to the Trusted Web themselves, without losing the programmatic benefits of targeting, optimisation and flexibility. With direct access, campaigns can be managed faster and optimised for maximum performance.

A future-proof platform

Ad Manager is ready for the future. Even without the use of third-party cookies, we can identify users and keep them accessible. The platform uses the DPG Media Online ID: a solid and stable first-party ID that respects users' privacy.

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Get started

Ad Manager is ready and waiting to be used on DPG Media's Trusted Web. There are other options where you are in the driver’s seat: based on available technology, knowledge and time, you make a choice based on your needs. Your desired results can also play a role in choosing your buying method. There are 3 main buying methods you can choose from to get the best possible results for your campaigns:

Ad Manager:

You don't have access to an in-house DSP and you don’t have strong programmatic skills for running advanced self-service real-time bidding campaigns. Buy Trusted Web inventory directly and enjoy 100% media budget, future-proof targeting and frequency capping.

Managed Buy / IO:

No in-house DSP and no time and/or strong programmatic skills are required. We manage and optimise your campaign for you. That way, you can buy all DPG Media inventories without any worries. Our experts manage your campaign and give you the highest possible priority.

Programmatic buying:

Bring in your own DSP and strong programmatic skills. That way, you can buy our inventory yourself with the possibility of centralising (part of) your media assets in one platform.

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Optimize your ads

100% available media budget

Ad Manager uses all of your media budget. We do not charge any technical costs so that you get the maximum impact for your budget. Most buying platforms work differently. They charge technical costs via a higher CPM. Compared to Ad Manager, other tools have a higher CPM for impressions on the same inventory or audience segments. In A/B tests, we saw that Ad Manager can, on average, present 15 to 30% lower CMPs compared to other DSPs. 

More interaction

Besides a better purchase price, Ad Manager also achieves better interaction results. The platform is built by DPG Media and has all access to all the data needed to best place an ad. For instance, Ad Manager can leverage a deeper level of information on hundreds of sections per domain while for other platforms, the (sub)domain is the deepest level. As an example, Ad Manager has insight into all news sections on HLN and the underlying ad slots per page. This allows the platform to place ads much more precisely to meet your KPI. 

More formats

With Ad Manager, additional formats and placements can be used to achieve the best results. In video campaigns, it's about first screen inventory thanks to catch-up and replay TV via A2A. In display campaigns, you can use seamless formats on mobile that are not available via programmatic. These formats have a CTR up to 5 times higher compared to a standard IAB banner.

The importance of reach and inventory

In programmatic buying, CPM plays an important and often decisive role in winning impressions. For display impressions, Ad Manager has the same priority as programmatic deals. That means the highest bid wins. But Ad Manager has the edge: thanks to DPG Media's large inventory and reach, Ad Manager is more likely to win more bids at a lower price. For video impressions, Ad Manager always enjoys higher priority. 

Without third-party cookies

Ad Manager works with the DPG Media Online ID (DMOI) and does not rely on third-party cookies. This ensures a more precise frequency capping. In addition, DPG Media can segment and reach users on different browsers and devices. Other buying platforms are unable to do so. For example, environments with stricter privacy rules or cookie policies, such as iOS devices and Safari users, will not be addressable. As a result, Ad Manager enjoys higher reach on these audiences. This efficient use of frequency capping and targeting guarantees much better results.

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Success stories

How A.S.Adventure scored 55% more clicksAnd you can get them too...  

A day at the spa for two. Breakfast with champagne. An adventurous day out with the kids. Chances are that you, like many other Belgians, regularly receive a gift voucher. With that in mind, A.S.Adventure wanted to draw attention to their gift cards. They wanted to stand out.

Here’s what we did

First, we matched existing customer data with the data in Datalab to create a new segment of potential customers. Both target groups were used to set up a campaign in Ad Manager. By combining the two tools, advertisers can reach their target groups faster and more efficiently. To evaluate the results, we ran an A/B test against Google's DV360 platform.

What was the result?

 All results exceeded the average benchmarks of A.S.Adventure's own display campaigns on the DV360 platform with:
- A CTR that was 26% higher.
- 55% more clicks.
- A CPC that was 57% lower.

Talk about having an impact on your target audience! In the video below, you can discover how we achieved these results together with A.S.Adventure.

Client speaks

“At A.S.Adventure & Juttu, we are constantly trying to improve our results. So we were very pleased to test DPG Media’s Ad Manager. Our high expectations were met with excellent results. The platform is now a regular part of our media mix.”

Antoine Carré, Programmatic Hub Director of Havas Media

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