Product News | October 11, 2021

How Brapex Publicidad exterior delivers innovative DOOH across Lima

As the lines blur between out-of-home and online digital advertising, publishers are increasingly fielding demands for greater immediacy and pressure to create more innovative offerings for buyers. Investment in new tech can take a company so far in meeting these demands, but it takes careful planning and a dedication to service to take these aspirations to their fullest conclusions.

From its origins introducing new DOOH formats to Lima in 2014 through to today, Brapex Publicidad Exterior has achieved those goals. Today, it is known for offering a standout experience and excellent results to agencies looking to make a splash with DOOH.

DOOH in motion

Starting with just two screens in 2014, Brapex made a name for itself in large part through its support of full-motion video content and location-based media selling. The competition, by contrast, sold static images in circuits until Brapex redefined the standard for DOOH in Lima.

The company maintains, however, that its backbone as a business lies in its dedication to quickly responding to customers and offering them the flexibility to truly buy according to their needs. Key to this undertaking is offering 24/7 customer service, something that none of its competitors do – and something its customers greatly appreciate.

Ads that Sell and Ads that Save

The main driver of business for Brapex is advertising for national and international brands looking to connect with consumers. This includes prominent airline, beverage, toy, and car brands, as well as large musical and cultural events in Lima and elsewhere in Peru.

Brapex also looks to put its screens to good use by supporting charity work that it believes in, typically offering screen time and assistance to a different charity each month. One significant example is the Kusimayo institution’s Warmth for Puno program, which insulates homes and distributes warm clothing to help vulnerable populations better cope with cold weather. The ads took a simple concept, comparing the temperatures in Lima with regions experiencing the coldest temperatures, and used it to encourage donations to assist people living in those areas. The campaign drove an increase in donations of more than 20% in 2018, at a time of year when the funds were badly needed.

Continued Innovation

As the market develops and Brapex’s network continues to grow, the company is seeking opportunities to build on its past successes by developing useful new products for its customers. Its Brapex interactive initiative looks to increase the development of interactive DOOH media for display on Brapex’s screens.

Meanwhile, buyers are also being granted the opportunity to supplement their DOOH advertising with Brapex’s location ads. These ads appear on Facebook and Instagram, geotargeted to users who have been in proximity to Brapex’s screens. It’s an ideal complement to the out-of-home advertising that buyers are distributing across Brapex’s screens, and is an offering that none of Brapex’s competitors can currently match.

Looking forward, Brapex is eager to jump into a programmatic future, something which will be key to unlocking a new level of immediacy for its buyers.

Brapex and Broadsign

It takes a good software platform to power an innovative, snappy, customer-first business model. This is especially true when the network is responsible for delivering 95,000 ads to as many as 45 million people each month, with more screens planned for deployment in the months and years ahead.

Seeking not only to set itself apart from the pack in Peru, but also to gain the capabilities required to run a world-class network, Brapex chose Broadsign.

With Broadsign Control, Brapex has the foundation for delivering many kinds of media to its screens, with scheduling and delivery automated by the system. Broadsign Direct, meanwhile, provides the real-time inventory management and proposal generation tools that allow Brapex to achieve the highest level of synchronization and efficiency possible. Finally, Broadsign’s position as a world leader in programmatic DOOH means that as soon as the region is ready to start transacting programmatically, Brapex will be ready to jump in with the world’s best solution.

Product News | October 11, 2021

How 75Media increased its fill rates by 15% with the Broadsign Platform

2024 was a record-breaking year for out-of-home (OOH) advertising in the United Kingdom (UK). Total OOH revenue for the region grew 7.7%, pulling in a record-breaking £1.4 billion in revenue. While spend is expected to cool down slightly in 2025 at 7.2%, the medium will grow through technological innovations like dynamic digital billboards, interactive displays, and programmatic advertising. 

Digital OOH (DOOH) now dominates the OOH landscape, accounting for 67.1% of total spend as brands seek the flexibility and creativity that digital offers. That being said, demand for static OOH – also known as classic OOH–  isn’t going anywhere, remaining an effective medium for long-term brand-building campaigns. 

With both formats offering distinct benefits to advertisers, the most effective campaigns combine both. This is where UK-based media owner 75Media comes in. As one of the leading providers of large-format static and digital roadside billboards in the region, 75Media makes it easy for brands, big and small, to tap into the power of OOH with the flexibility, scale and simplicity that modern advertisers need today.

How 75Media makes out-of-home simple for buyers

Wanting to provide brands with national reach through large-format, high-impact roadside billboards, 75Media’s sites are strategically positioned in high-traffic locations across the UK. These include key commuter routes and busy city centres, with placements carefully chosen for their proximity to gyms, shopping centres, supermarkets, and other points of interest. 

Through a series of strategic acquisitions, 75Media has exponentially grown its network, going from 140 to nearly 1,300 digital and static billboards across the UK in just five years. Today, with just over 1,000 large-format static billboards, 75Media’s hybrid network is about 75% static and 25% digital. 

In addition to their wide-reaching network, advertisers choose 75Media’s network because they make OOH measurable and efficient without compromising on quality. Wanting to deliver real audiences to clients as quickly as possible, 75Media focuses on minimizing the back-and-forth typically needed to book OOH campaigns. 

75Media’s network attracts a broad mix of advertisers and campaigns, including major brand campaigns, fast-moving consumer goods promotions, as well as ads for local businesses, the public sector and charitable organizations. On the digital side of its network, there’s exciting momentum toward dynamic creative optimization (DCO) campaigns. Collaborating with their data partners, DOOH.com, Veridooh and Artbot, 75Media has been unlocking new ways for brands to engage with their audiences in real-time. 

One notable dynamic, data-driven campaign that ran on 75Media’s network was Nike’s campaign featuring renowned Norwegian professional footballer Erling Haaland for the promotion of its new Mercurial football shoe. Leveraging the dynamic triggers available on the Broadsign Platform, the artwork and messaging of the DOOH ad would dynamically update whenever Haaland scored a goal during a match. 

How Broadsign makes it easy for 75Media to run its network

One platform to efficiently scale, manage, and sell their digital and static out-of-home inventory

75Media has been using the Broadsign Platform since day one. Operations Director Alex Simpson—one of 75Media’s founding directors—had previously used Broadsign at his former company and saw first hand how reliable and effective the platform was. So when 75Media launched in 2020, continuing that partnership was a natural choice. And with their significant growth plans, they needed a platform that was capable of seamlessly scaling alongside their business. 

In addition to the platform’s robustness and reliability, 75Media chose Broadsign for its content and network management capabilities. The manual work typically tied to campaign scheduling, booking and execution is now automated, freeing up the team’s time to focus on enhancing advertisers’ experience with OOH.

Moreover, managing their static and digital assets through the Broadsign Platform not only kept things efficient and organized, but also provided them with seamless workflows to plan, execute, and monitor static and digital OOH campaigns without unnecessary complications. 

“The reporting capabilities provided by the Broadsign Platform for our digital and static assets allow us to be totally transparent with our clients. Being able to show brands exactly how their campaigns are performing in-flight is invaluable.”

Alex Simpson, Operations Director, 75Media

How 75Media optimizes fill rates with Broadsign’s flexible campaigns

Another key capability that 75Media has been leveraging is Broadsign’s flexible selling tools for their DOOH campaigns. This gives them access to our flexible campaign types, which are goal-based and data-triggered, allowing you to deliver more targeted results. In fact, 80% of DOOH campaigns that ran on 75Media’s network in 2024 leveraged flexible campaigns.

The most widely used flexible campaign type was the Campaign Average Share of Voice (SoV). This allows advertisers to define the average percentage of screen time their ad should get over the campaign’s duration. So what makes it flexible? The SoV on each screen can vary day-to-day to accommodate other campaigns requiring the same screens, but the target average SoV across all screens over the campaign’s duration will always be met. 

This is made possible by Broadsign’s rebalancing feature, which leverages our optimization engine to modify the pace at which a campaign is delivered to guarantee targets are met. Since adopting these new flexible capabilities, 75Media has seen an increase of 15% in its screen fill rates and has strengthened its client relationships by offering more flexible solutions. 

“Broadsign’s rebalancing feature helps deliver our campaigns efficiently while allowing us to maximize the space across our inventory. It’s particularly useful in ensuring everything runs smoothly without daily intervention from our delivery team.”

Alex Simpson, Operations Director, 75Media

The Campaign Average SoV campaign type is particularly useful for markets where flexible buying has not been widely adopted. Buyers can maintain the same fixed results typically obtained through slot-based campaigns while providing you with the operational flexibility to fill your network optimally.

What we can expect from 75Media in the near future

While 75Media will continue to invest in new digital and static sites to extend its coverage and reach, its focus in the near future is to become the most efficient OOH operator in the market. It plans to do this by investing in new technology and automation, removing the medium’s preconceived pain points, and providing the quickest way to buy OOH. 

Additionally, as programmatic capabilities continue to evolve, advertisers will grow more confident in data-driven OOH. With demand expected to rise, 75Media is actively exploring new audience analytics and multiple data integrations to enhance targeting and boost campaign effectiveness.