DISPLAYCE raises 850,000 euros

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DISPLAYCE, a programmatics specialist dedicated to DOOH, has raised 850,000 euros to accelerate its technological development. The start-up plans to recruit new collaborators.

 
Today, only 8% of France’s advertising revenue for advertising displays is generated by digital, compared with 31% in Great Britain and 40.8% in the United States.

DISPLAYCE wishes to address this delay with its programmatic advertising platform dedicated to digital display. Founded in 2014 by Laure Malergue and Marie Gaestel, this platform allows advertisers to create geolocation-based, contextual campaigns, thanks to a fleet of 28,500 digital signs located in shopping centres, local businesses and on French roads.

The young company announced today that it has completed its first funding round, securing 850,000 euros from the funds 3A Venture, Boss Corp, and Finaqui, as well as Aquitaine Amorçage, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, Bpifrance and its historical investors Bordeaux Unitec and Aquitaine Développement Innovation.

This funding will allow DISPLAYCE to accelerate the technological development of its platform to eventually make it accessible to the entire programmatics ecosystem. Now composed of 7 collaborators, the start-up plans to recruit 5 new faces by early 2017 to support this development.

DISPLAYCE’s beta version, launched in 2016, has already attracted the interest of a dozen networks, who have entrusted the programmatic advertising of their stock to the start-up. Its 28,500 digital signs represent the possibility of 21 million views per day, the start-up says.

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HotelF1, of the AccorHotels Group, launches its first DOOH programmatics campaign in France with Amnet and DISPLAYCE

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hotelF1, the leading low-cost hotel chain in France and a brand in the AccorHotels Group, has launched its “CityTrip” Instagram campaign with physical advertising.

 
The 100% programmatic campaign envisioned by hotelF1 and Amnet involves targeted digital advertising (DOOH), as well as mobile broadcasting around the chain’s hotels and a measurement of the physical traffic to the hotels following the campaign.

“We are very pleased to mark this French first for the hotelF1 brand. Constantly in search of the most agile, innovative strategies to reach our current and future customers, this strategy won us over as it allows us to implement our CityTrip campaign in a new format that is both high-impact and targeted,” says Laura Degracia, hotelF1’s Digital Marketing Manager.

“Due to its concept and advertising preferences, hotelF1 was the perfect first advertiser for this programmatic DOOH test. This collaboration is even more savvy and exciting given that the envisioned campaign involves both digital display and mobile activation, while also measuring the physical traffic generated following the campaign. We’re excited to share the preliminary results,” adds Marie Le Guevel, General Manager of Amnet.

“We would like to thank Amnet and hotelF1 for their trust in our technology for this campaign. We are sure that it will become a best-case on the advertising market,” Laure Malergue, the CEO and founder of DISPLAYCE, concludes.

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[Interview] Laure Malergue, CEO of DISPLAYCE

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Laure Malergue is the founder of DISPLAYCE. The company is an DSP with a fleet of 26,000 digital screens in France, within five indoor and outdoor display networks, for programmatic sales. Its solution has been operational since early 2016.

What does programmatics have to offer for exterior digital display advertising?

Firstly, programmatics makes it possible to target an audience in real-time using automation. It also widens agencies’ playing fields by offering them different types of networks that cover their advertisers’ targets. For exterior display, there are the very large networks, part of whose fleets are digitized, and the pure players, such as those that are connected to newsagents’ cash registers, gas stations or companies with a fleet of screens in bars and restaurants. Programmatics makes it possible to purchase different spaces, as well as to create more intelligent messages, targeting them depending on the weather or the results of a sporting event for example, and by creating a package. Programmatics can also be used to measure data and provide feedback in real-time.

Who are the intended advertisers?

All advertisers whose strategies involve an attractive environment or tactical targeting around points of interest: in our geolocalised database, we have 80,000 points of interest such as cinemas, schools, museums etc. These advertisers often include travel agencies, real estate agencies, retail chains, or brands organizing an event in a city. For example, we have worked with a land developer wishing to target areas within a 1.5km radius around its new developments. The advertisements displayed the development’s name and location. There are no technical programmatics prerequisites for advertisers: generally speaking, they provide a budget, a time period and an idea of the geolocalisation. If they wish to organize a campaign around their store, they simply need to give us its GPS coordinates. Finally, they provide a creation, which we adapt ourselves for the different display screen sizes.

Is the market structured?

It is an emerging market: in France, only 8% of display is digitised, but this number is growing by 25% per year according to Irep. However, according to a study by the Digital Place-Based Advertising Association (DPAA), traditional media is experiencing the highest programmatics penetration rate: 40% in 2018, compared to 17% for TV. The market is becoming more structured: for example, we have implemented a CPM system for display, which takes into account the screen size, the audience and the quality of the location. Previously, display advertising had been purchased in packs, such as the “Ile-de-France” pack, for a given period. Our technology allows us to keep track of the impressions displayed on each screen, enabling advertisers to purchase them by the unit. We are also working on a “contact” CPM (that counts the number of people exposed to the advertisement). A new ecosystem is in the works: in a system where cookies are not tracked, we must recreate programmatics tools and adapt the OpenRTB protocol, which cannot be directly transposed. We are involved in the structuring of a programmatics ecosystem for digital display where specialized players and the existing Web players will coexist.

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