LIVE BOARD partners with Hivestack to power Programmatic OOH Marketplace in Japan
DOOH ad tech platform selected to serve as technology back-bone of LIVE BOARD's full-stack, programmatic OOH offering for the Japanese market
TOKYO, Dec. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- LIVE BOARD Inc, a joint venture between NTT DOCOMO, INC. and Dentsu Inc., announced a partnership with Hivestack Inc, a technology platform that powers programmatic OOH buying and selling. First in Japan, LIVE BOARD launches a full-stack, "LIVE BOARD MARKETPLACE" that enables brands and agency to activate OOH media against audiences in motion, trade inventories programmatically and deliver OOH advertisements on an impression basis.
Ichiro Jinnai, Chief Executive Officer and President of LIVE BOARD shared -
"After a demanding evaluation of multiple ad tech platforms, we have decided that Hivestack was the ideal technology partner that enables our ambitions for programmatic OOH. Hivestack has essentially created a Japanese-tailored version of its entire platform enabling the LIVE BOARD MARKETPLACE for DOOH buyers and sellers. While we will use the Hivestack platform for our owned LIVE BOARD inventory, the plan is to also roll up the extremely fragmented publisher side of Japanese DOOH into one consolidated ad exchange, thus making DOOH easier to buy at scale."
Components of the Sell-Side from the LIVE BOARD MARKETPLACE:
1. The LIVE BOARD Supply-Side Platform (SSP) which allows Japanese DOOH
media owners to sell negotiated packages of inventory via private
MARKETPLACE deals
2. The LIVE BOARD Ad Exchange which allows Japanese DOOH media owners to
monetize unsold ad spots in a loop via documented LIVE BOARD APIs.
Software engineering is required from the media owner to integrate their
bespoke content management system (CMS) to the LIVE BOARD Exchange via
the LIVE BOARD APIs.
3. The LIVE BOARD HTML Container which is an alternative method for media
owners to connect to the LIVE BOARD Exchange instead of passing through
the LIVE BOARD APIs. The LIVE BOARD HTML Container is designed for small
media owners who might not have the software engineering resources to
develop an API integration with to the LIVE BOARD Exchange. With this
approach, media owners simply use their HTML-capable CMS/Player system to
schedule the LIVE BOARD HTML Container as a spot in the loop of a DOOH
screen. When played, the HTML Container has baked in JavaScript that
makes ad requests over the Web to the LIVE BOARD SSP, which then replies
with media owner pre-approved creative. This approach does not require
any software development from the media owner.
4. The LIVE BOARD Ad Server which allows Japanese DOOH media owners to
programmatically deliver impressions on their screens based on audience
pacing, geographical skewing and frequency capping algorithms. The LIVE
BOARD Ad Server geo-temporally optimizes ad delivery by targeting
audiences that are ingested from NTT DOCOMO's mobile geospatial platform
Mobile Kuukan Toukei(TM) (Mobile Space Statistics)(*1). Mobile Kuukan
Tokei data is derived by anonymized signals from NTT DOCOMO, and
aggregates audience movement patterns using privacy compliant
methodologies.
5. An optional, licence-free the LIVE BOARD Player that is driven by
completely by the impression-based LIVE BOARD Ad Server. The LIVE BOARD
Player was independently developed and owned by LIVE BOARD.
*1 "Mobile Kuukan Toukei" is a registered trademark of NTT DOCOMO, INC.
* The LIVE BOARD SSP / Exchange are based on openRTB standards which pave the foundation to receive buys from omni-channel demand side platforms (DSPs) in the very near future.
Components of the Buy-Side from the LIVE BOARD MARKETPLACE:
The buy-side of the LIVE BOARD MARKETPLACE offers a DOOH-channel DSP called the LIVE BOARD DSP. This self-serve DSP can be used by Japanese OOH agencies and trading desks to programmatically bid on impressions on the LIVE BOARD Ad Exchange. The LIVE BOARD DSP uses bidding technology that bids on high-value audience impressions as perceived by Mobile Kuukan Toukei(TM) geospatial technology.
Andreas Soupliotis, Chief Executive Officer of Hivestack Inc. commented -
"In order to guarantee a high level of service to LIVE BOARD, Hivestack has formally launched Hivestack Japan based in Tokyo. We are thrilled to be expanding into Japan, which is the third largest OOH market in the world. Our partnership with LIVE BOARD will usher a new era of programmatic OOH buying in Japan. While the Hivestack Platform will serve as the tech back-bone of the LIVE BOARD MARKETPLACE, LIVE BOARD will be developing buyer relationships with trading desks, as well as seller relationships with Japanese media owners. It's a perfect partnership and I am excited to see LIVE BOARD's incredible story unfold in the next years."
About LIVE BOARD
With our "Figure the Real World" slogan, LIVE BOARD's mission is to redefine the value of the "real world" and to rapidly revitalize Japan's underdeveloped DOOH market. We will build a DOOH ad network together with our stakeholders and become Japan's first impression-based DOOH ad platform.
Please visit us at https://www.liveboard.co.jp/en/.
About Hivestack
Hivestack is a location-based marketing technology company that drives business outcomes. Digital marketers use Hivestack's technology to connect with custom audiences in the physical world based on consumer behavior and audience movement patterns. The Hivestack platform is a full-stack platform that enables DOOH publishers to transact with digital marketers using programmatic ad tech. The platform's unique value proposition to marketers include location-based audience science that analyzes massive privacy-compliant mobile datasets, measurement and ad serving.
Please visit us at https://hivestack.com/.
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