Life in Programmatic Digital OOH

JCDecaux has recently partnered with ExchangeWire to produce a definitive guide to programmatic DOOH (pDOOH) featuring eight case studies from brands including Lucozade, Maltesers, Dell, and Costa. In this episode of Life in Programmatic DOOH, Philippa Evans, Head of Programmatic Operations at JCDecaux UK is joined by John Still, Head of Content at ExchangeWire to discuss the many proven benefits of pDOOH. Listen to discover how pDOOH can help you to boost brand awareness, grow return on investment, and form part of a modern, privacy, marketing strategy. Download the report here. 

New research from leading premium global supply-side platform (SSP) VIOOH, JCDecaux’s SSP partner, reveals that UK advertisers have strongly embraced programmatic DOOH. In the past 12 months, half (47%) of all DOOH campaigns bought by participants in the research were always or usually exclusively programmatic. Furthermore, investment in pDOOH is set for substantial growth, with research participants predicting a 29% average increase in spending over the next 18 months. In this episode of Life in Programmatic DOOH, Philippa Evans, Associate Director, Programmatic, JCDecaux UK is joined by Gavin Wilson, Chief Global Customer and Revenue Officer, VIOOH to discuss the findings in more detail.  

DMEXCO is one of the biggest events dedicated to digital marketing, and for many years, it has served as a key meeting place for key players in the industry. This year the atmosphere was as vibrant as ever and the agenda was packed with insightful content covering all the usual themes but with a big focus on retail media, sustainability, AI, and data-driven but cookie-free targeting. In this episode of Life in Programmatic DOOH, JCDecaux UK’s Director of Programmatic, Mark Halliday and Jon Mundy, Associate Director – Programmatic share their DMEXCO 2024 highlights and share insights from interviews with Diederick Ubels, Managing Director, EMEA, Vistar Media, Remi Boudard, VP Sales, Displayce, Walter Kraus, Commercial Director, JCDecaux Netherlands, and Julia Linehan, CEO, The Digital Voice. 

In this episode of Life in Programmatic DOOH, Dom Kozak is joined by JCDecaux UK's new Director of Programmatic, Mark Halliday. The pair discuss the latest trends in programmatic DOOH (pDOOH) and how to overcome misconceptions about the channel. Mark shares his experiences as a Chief Data Officer agency-side and the reasons behind his return to pDOOH. Meanwhile, Dom shares his take on the rapid growth of pDOOH in the UK and what is needed to grow the channel further in the UK and beyond.

Over the years there’s been a lot of talk about in-housing, especially programmatic channels. In this episode of Life in Programmatic DOOH, our Associate Director – Programmatic, Jon Mundy is joined by Dan Larden, Head of Media at ISBA to unpick what it is that drives the longevity of the in-housing conversation, current trends, benefits, and what media owners can do to support brands that choose to in-house some or all of their programmatic DOOH planning and buying.  

 For many brands, online sales offer advantages compared to traditional in-store – e.g. lower cost of sale, deeper customer insights, and re-marketing opportunities. But pivoting to a digital-first sales strategy can be challenging when your target audience is used to buying your products in-store. In this episode of Life in Programmatic Digital Out-of-Home, Gordon Bonifacio, Head of Sales at Displayce talks to Jon Mundy, Associate Director – Programmatic at JCDecaux about how they helped Dell to increase online purchase intent using a powerful combination of programmatic digital out of home (pDOOH) and mobile advertising. The campaign was shortlisted for the Best Use of Mobile and pDOOH award at the 2024 JCDecaux pDOOH Live Awards.  

Incorporating programmatic DOOH (pDOOH) into omnichannel campaigns has opened many marketers’ eyes to the potential to use location data and targeting to improve the performance of omnichannel programmatic campaigns. In this episode of Life in Programmatic DOOH, James Trott, Senior Director of Global Addressable Media at Coca-Cola explains the reasons why location data should be programmatic marketers’ single point of truth for targeting and measurement.  

Flow City is a demand-side platform (DSP) that enables brands to seamlessly add programmatic digital out-of-home (pDOOH) to their media mix alongside channels such as display, social, mobile, and video. In this episode of Life in Programmatic DOOH, Flow City’s Co-Founder Dagny Lacka explains to Jon Mundy, Associate Director – Programmatic at JCDecaux, how digital-first beauty and healthcare brand Face the Future leveraged the real-world power of pDOOH to drive footfall to their first ever physical activation.  

Skyrise, an audience design and targeting platform, in partnership with independent media agency JAA and The Woodland Trust, won Best Integrated pDOOH Campaign at the JCDecaux Programmatic DOOH Live Awards 2024. In this episode of Life in pDOOH, Mark Burton, Business Director at Skyrise joins Philippa Evans, Associate Director, JCDecaux to dive into the strategy behind the campaign.