Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media
Kinetic, the world’s largest out of home buying and planning agency today announces its exclusive partnership in France with Hivestack, the leading global programmatic digital out of home (DOOH) ad tech company. This partnership will drive the future of OOH, forming the first truly programmatic DOOH solution in the French market.
Kinetic France, through its subsidiary Screenbase, plans and buys campaigns across two of the world’s largest media companies, making it by far the biggest buyer of OOH in the region. Kinetic will integrate Hivestack’s demand side platform (DSP) bringing automation and performance measurement to brand campaigns in DOOH for the first time in French history. Clients will be able to access Hivestack’s full suite of tools including the ability to build custom audiences, set up live geo-location targeting, plan, buy and deliver in real time both in PMP deals and also via the open exchange. All this will be available through one consolidated Kinetic dashboard, enabling optimisation, reporting and pacing of the campaign across multiple media owners in one place.
Geoffrey Galabert CPO, Kinetic France told us “This is an incredibly exciting time for the DOOH market in France. We look forward to collaborating with our new partners at Hivestack to leverage their market leading programmatic technology and offer our clients a way to precisely engage audiences outside of the home.”
As part of the expansion into France, Hivestack has also signed some of the worlds largest and most powerful OOH/DOOH media owners via the Hivestack Supply Side Platform (SSP), including Clear Channel, Mediatransports, Imediacenter, Smartmedia, DoohYouLike, Fill Up Média, Waitcom, Turnadon and DooH it, with more coming soon including Mediaperformances and JCDecaux inventory via VIOOH. These media owners will be able to monetize their premium DOOH inventory by connecting to a worldwide pool of advertisers in real-time.
The announcement also coincides with Hivestack’s appointment of Vladimir Chou, hired as VP, Demand in France. He joins the business from Kinetic itself and with his strong industry experience and market expertise, is well placed to drive programmatic DOOH forward in France to make this partnership a big success.
Hivestack is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, and has global operations in Toronto, Tokyo, London, New York, Mexico City, Shanghai, Sydney and Guadalajara.
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