DISPLAYCE announces a strategic alliance, including the acquisition of a majority stake by JCDecaux, to become a benchmark DSP in outdoor advertising.

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Press release – Bordeaux, July 5, 2022 – DISPLAYCE, a leading Demand-Side-Platform (DSP) company specialising in the purchase and optimisation of digital outdoor advertising campaigns (DOOH), announced today a strategic alliance, including the acquisition of a majority stake by JCDecaux, the number one outdoor advertising company.

The young Bordeaux-based company, created in 2014 and dedicated to the purchase and optimisation of DOOH campaigns, is the leading French programmatic platform in terms of technology, know-how, and inventory with more than 600,000 connected digital screens in more than 50 countries (France, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, among others).

A forerunner in its sector in the DOOH, the media with the second highest growth after mobile advertising, DISPLAYCE offers European marketers (Publicis, Havas, Dentsu, Jellyfish, Matterkind, etc.) real-time purchase of advertising space on digital panels from more than 350 advertising agencies around the world.

Driven by its strong desire to transform the DOOH market, DISPLAYCE has been involved with national and international players (DPAA, IAB, etc.) since its launch. Today, it is connected to the main DOOH Supply-Side Platforms (“SSPs”) in the market (BROADSIGN, VIOOH, VISTAR MEDIA), allowing access to the premium inventories of the largest OOH companies (Clearchannel, JCDecaux, Mediatransports, etc.). It has also established strategic and trustworthy partnerships over the past 8 years, both on the technological side and the data side (Adsquare, Happydemics, etc.). DISPLAYCE offers media buying, enriched with advanced targeting, and efficiency measurement thanks to its Data Management Platform (DMP) designed specifically for OOH.


This transaction will give DISPLAYCE the means to increase its international development. From September 2022, DISPLAYCE plans to accelerate its growth in Europe.

Within this partnership, DISPLAYCE will keep its operating autonomy and its founding shareholders will be holding shares alongside JCDecaux. The company will continue to be managed by Laure Malergue (CEO), Marie Gaestel (VP Sales) and Hayssam Soueidan (Chief Technology Officer).


Laure Malergue, Founder of DISPLAYCE: “In addition to accelerating our international deployment, we are delighted to consolidate our strategic alliance with JCDecaux. The digital transformation that the group is undergoing demonstrates once again its capacity for innovation and its leadership. We share common values, based on cooperation, high standards and excellence, and we are convinced of the benefits of this strategic alliance for both our companies and for the market in general. Last July, we launched together the very first programmatic DOOH campaign in France, via the SSP “VIOOH” which has proved to be very promising for the market. From a more operational point of view, we will continue to operate from our headquarters in Bordeaux, with our growing team. Keeping our agility and autonomy is important as they have been the strength of DISPLAYCE for 8 years, allowing us to offer innovative products in line with the new needs of the industry.”

DISPLAYCE was advised by NINE58 Advisors during this transaction, with DS Avocats acting as legal counsel.

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Jellyfish trusts Displayce for the campaign
DOOH programmatic campaign for Orange Bank

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Jellyfish, an innovative marketing company integrating creativity, data and technology to improve the performance of the world’s biggest brands, chooses Displayce, the first French technology platform (DSP) that enables real-time purchase of advertising space on more than 500,000 digital display screens, to facilitate and optimize the purchase of digital panels from several SSPs (Supply-Side-Platform), and to measure the effectiveness of the campaign for Orange Bank. This campaign is part of a strategic cross-leveraged DOOH and display awareness plan, managed by Jellyfish teams for Orange Bank.

A campaign broadcast on 1383 digital panels, optimized in real time.

From December 15 to 24, 2021, the French online bank’s videos were displayed on 1383 digital panels located outdoors, in shopping malls and in store windows. Jellyfish chose a partner specialized in DOOH – Displayce, to simplify its connection to the most strategic digital panels and optimize their purchase from two major publishers: JCDecaux on the VIOOH SSP and Imediacenter on Vistar Media. 8 million impressions were thus delivered to reach the Orange Bank target audience with precision. Thanks to programmatic DOOH, the campaign was optimized in real time according to the time of day and the number of visitors around the screens, in order to ensure ultra-targeted distribution in relation to the advertiser’s target contact points.

A strong gain in awareness for Orange Bank generated by this programmatic DOOH campaign

For this campaign, effectiveness was measured using features such as the “programmatic DOOH post-test” solution developed in partnership with Happydemics. Integrated directly into the Displayce platform, this solution aims to measure key KPIs to monitor the real performance of DOOH campaigns on awareness criteria: memorization rate, brand attribution, impact on consideration or purchase intention. The Orange Bank campaign generated 24 awareness points with the Happydemics methodology and showed that 49% of consumers, after being exposed to the campaign, showed a positive intention to learn more about the Orange Bank offer.

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Displayce and Happydemics announce a strategic alliance and launch the first fully automated programmatic DOOH post-test available in 40 countries!

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Displayce and Happydemics announce a strategic alliance and launch the first fully automated programmatic DOOH post-test available in 40 countries!

Displayce is the first French technology platform that allows you to buy advertising space in real time on over 500,000 digital display screens. Happydemics is the leading market research technology that automates and reinvents market research by surveying 4.8 billion individuals directly in the course of their media consumption. Two years of R&D collaboration between these two ultra-specialist players have resulted in a solution that is unique to the European market: the integration on the Displayce platform of an independent quantitative research service controlled by Happydemics, to measure and monitor actual performance of DOOH campaigns throughout the world with full transparency.

The Happydemics technology platform is connected to consumers right around the world, surveying them through their daily consumption of digital media. This innovative post-test methodology offers a degree of representativeness and freshness of data collection previously unseen in the sector. This solution, directly integrated into the Displayce platform, aims to measure key KPIs for monitoring actual performance of DOOH campaigns on awareness criteria, including rate of memorability, brand attribution and impact on consideration and purchase intention. Using a questionnaire specifically designed for this programmatic DOOH, with exposure points communicated via APIs developed between the 2 platforms, audiences exposed to a campaign rate the impact of campaigns seen on their daily travels, such as in the street, shopping centres, stations, airports, etc.

“Advertisers need practical, reliable indicators of advertising effectiveness but also require simplicity and responsiveness. Our APIs reconcile these two needs, delivering useful KPIs on a continuous basis to advertising companies such as Displayce. By conducting thousands of post-tests on a daily basis, we put these results into perspective, comparing them with benchmarks in over 12 industries to ensure measurements are as accurate as possible. This partnership demonstrates Displayce’s drive to position itself as one of the most transparent players on the market,” explains Tarek Ouagguini, co-founder and CEO of Happydemics

“It was of utmost importance to us to choose an automated third-party measurer, fully integrated into our platform, to manage the quantitative research on our clients’ DOOH campaigns. In our view, this is the best solution to date to guarantee data objectivity and address a representative and truly targeted panel for each campaign,” says Laure Malergue, CEO and founder of Displayce.

The mass rollout of this solution means the platform’s users can launch a study of their DOOH campaigns simultaneously on all advertising networks in 40 countries. This is a way of facilitating its widespread use, especially as research studies are invoiced on a CPM basis to ensure they are fully accessible. In order to guarantee maximum responsiveness, the results of each study are available on the Displayce platform through the connected APIs as soon as the campaign ends.

These two years of research and technological developments by the pioneering teams at Happydemics and Displayce have already helped establish a programmatic DOOH benchmark to give users of the platform a reliable reference framework for each criterion: memorability, consideration, purchase intention and brand attribution. Such data enable users to track the performance of their campaigns over time and measure them against similar campaigns for greater analysis of their actual performance.

“In addition to the relevance of this benchmark for our clients, we have been able to objectively observe the positive impact of a DOOH campaign on brand image. In particular, the data indicate a striking result regarding consideration given to the brand. After an individual in the target audience is exposed to an ad on a digital billboard, their consideration for the brand increases by 16%, i.e. 3% more than with an ad shown on TV and 4% more than with a digital ad*. It should also be noted that exposure to a DOOH campaign results in a 12% increase in the positive image of the associated brand as regards its modernity,” says Laure Malergue in conclusion.

*Data from Happydemics’ cross-channel benchmarks.

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