Basis DSP vs. Piano Audience

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Basis DSP
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Basis from Basis Global Technologies (formerly Centro) is a programmatic ad buying platform supporting digital advertising buying and placement across varying channels. Since the acquisition of SiteScout the platform also contains technology from the SiteScout AdServer.N/A
Piano Audience
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Piano DMP presents customer data as immediately available for segmentation and targeting. It combines first-, second-, and third-party data with volunteered zero-party data, allowing administrators to develop user profiles and audience segments and put the data to work across sites and multi-channel campaigns. Integrate zero-party data to ensure data reliability, transparency, and consent.N/A
Pricing
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Basis DSPPiano Audience
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Basis DSP
Chose Basis DSP
Advangelist, StackAdapt, Simplifi, Trade Desk, Media Math - overall most of the other platforms we reviewed were perfectly fine and can get the job done quite well. We have mostly stuck with basis because of the relationship that we have, the fact that they have continued to …
Chose Basis DSP
Basis [DSP] has much better fraud control than SmartyAds DSP. Even though they do not have the amount of supply inventory as Smarty, they have much more controls for invalid traffic and bots which is very important to minimize discrepancies and issues with clients.
Compared to …
Chose Basis DSP
Compared to these 3 alternatives, Basis DSP is the easiest to use. Applovin is more complex but it is very messy and the learning curve is pretty steep. Applovin is focused mostly on big clients and not suitable for agencies of any size. OpenX would be the closest competitor …
Chose Basis DSP
Basis is able to reach ad exchanges that these platforms can not. Basis serves as a one-stop shop whereas these platforms require 3rd party integrations.
Chose Basis DSP
We've previously tested Pocketmath and evaluated Beeswax.

Pocketmath and Basis are roughly the same in terms of cost and inventory. However, Pocketmath's interface, while very attractive, is very difficult to use to deploy large scale campaigns quickly. It is definitely …
Chose Basis DSP
The primary reason for an agency or an SMB to use Basis is cost -- unlike other platforms which are full service or enterprise platforms with aggressively high minimums, Basis is well suited for proofs of concept and smaller campaigns. It can scale up, but the entry-level …
Chose Basis DSP
Basis DSP is much more user-friendly than DoubleClick and allows us to host our ads within their platform, rather than having to use DCM and DBM. Although DBM has more third party targeting options, the overall user experience of Basis DSP is far superior to DoubleClick.
Chose Basis DSP
SiteScout has much more control over our ads than other comparable platforms offer. We spend a bit of time configuring everything, but we're able to perform many A/B tests and really optimize our campaigns to a very detailed level.
Piano Audience
Chose Piano Audience
It allows users to manage and analyze large volumes of information, The learning technology is automatic, the types of audiences can be classified. it is a very good business solution for our marketing department, The DMP acts as a true management center, we have obtained a …
Chose Piano Audience
Piano DMP form is simpler, as is its customization, we have an invaluable data source in its own systems, the construction of an eCommerce solution is ambitious and projected, the careful design of the logic of use is evident, in addition, its use can meet very diverse needs …
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User Ratings
Basis DSPPiano Audience
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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10.0
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Usability
9.0
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Support Rating
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Implementation Rating
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User Testimonials
Basis DSPPiano Audience
Likelihood to Recommend
Basis DSP is well suited to every type of campaign imaginable. My firm specializes in outreach and education campaigns and we use Basis DSP in order to turn people out to events and to take specific actions. Basis has changed how we do business for the better. The hyperlocal campaigns, native campaigns, and audio campaigns have all added excellent additional capabilities to our tool box and have allowed us to complete very compelling campaigns for our clients.
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Depending on the user segment created, it allows us for example to use the recommendation engine pop-up feature among other alternatives, it can also take effective action for media sites, such as in-site migration promotion and member registration/campaign recommendation. According to the user access record measured by Cxense tag measurement.
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Pros
  • Customer Service and Support is fantastic. Always willing to educate our team and help us get the most value out of the platform.
  • The ad fraud features are great. Through DV360 we need to use a third-party which comes with additional costs.
  • Easy to use platform.
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  • Abundant configurations and segments to analyze a large amount of navigation data.
  • BI UI/UX is easy to understand and trends can be immediately captured.
  • It is also possible to create a segment that produces more results by incorporating and multiplying member attribute data.
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Cons
  • Managed service is a little pricey and tends to have slightly lower performance
  • interface is very 90's, could use a real facelift purely from an aesthetic perspective
  • Reports are continually being updated but could use some refinement in output for client-facing reports
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  • It should be noted that not all results can be used, it depends on their quality.
  • It is considered a relatively new tool for data analysis.
  • Care must be taken with the quality of these data.
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Usability
It's pretty basic, nothing is hidden and nothing ever moves so you can count on finding what you are looking for each day
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Support Rating
We have a dedicated account rep. She makes it seem like we are her only client, she is very responsive, helps each time we have a question and understands our campaign goals. Anytime we need support, our rep is available either email or call and if she is not going to be available, she will let us know ahead of time to provide back up and inform them of our current campaigns so they can better assist us.
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Implementation Rating
There are a ton of tactics and strategy to implement in the DSP platform. There isn't really a selection of the different types of campaigns or tactics to choose from, you just have to learn as you go. Once you figure out the strategy and goal of the campaign it is very easy to implement the tactic and to achieve its goals.
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Alternatives Considered
Basis [DSP] has much better fraud control than SmartyAds DSP. Even though they do not have the amount of supply inventory as Smarty, they have much more controls for invalid traffic and bots which is very important to minimize discrepancies and issues with clients. Compared to other DSPs though, it lags on performance solutions.
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It allows users to manage and analyze large volumes of information, The learning technology is automatic, the types of audiences can be classified. it is a very good business solution for our marketing department, The DMP acts as a true management center, we have obtained a good Simplification and unification of data
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Return on Investment
  • Basis DSP allows us to reach users in many different places while controlling costs - access to major exchanges at a competitive bid rate allows us to provide a lot of added-value to clients without dramatically increasing the cost they incur.
  • The team is friendly, helpful, and responsive, so we don't have a lot of situations where we're locked in campaign downtime due to a customer service issue with negative downstream impacts to the bottom line.
  • Periodic reporting outages have resulted in campaigns that overpace and incur needless costs (however, this is certainly an exception, not the rule).
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  • Provides audience information for the other pieces of the system to move forward.
  • We can build a very complete picture of the anonymous user.
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