Since Beeswax was launched in 2016, businesses have used it to build proprietary adtech solutions to solve a myriad of marketing challenges. Beeswax’s bespoke bidding tools, such as its Custom Data Augmenter and AI-based “Bring Your Own Algo” (BYOA) Bidding Agent tech, allow even the most technical organizations to use Bidder-as-a-Service (BaaS) to build truly unique DSP executions.
Over the last several years, FreeWheel has continued to invest in making Beeswax’s underlying API infrastructure more accessible, providing the ability to build sophisticated integrations as well as enabling control, transparency, and flexibility in programmatic advertising without the need for a full-scale engineering team. Now, we’ve taken this evolution one step further, integrating the best capabilities of FreeWheel to create a user-friendly Beeswax DSP.
Already live in-market, this new tool brings together the best of FreeWheel Supply and Beeswax tech to create significant value for agencies, media buyers, and advertisers. Even better, the core infrastructure that underpins our new DSP product is the same that powers all customers of Beeswax Bidder-as-a-Service (BaaS). This allows our unified engineering organization to focus on developing the core technology and robust toolset that allow all our customers to build proprietary solutions on top of the BaaS RTB Engine.
Simultaneously, FreeWheel has been investing heavily in our programmatic buy-side UI and unique agency programmatic management tools. Additionally, we’ve been completing more third-party data and supply integrations, with Amazon, Yahoo!, and Sharethrough going live in the last couple of months, pushing the total number of SSP integrations to more than 70. The Beeswax DSP has the benefit of our existing partnership integrations with targeting data and fraud prevention solutions, as well as several new capabilities, such as Neustar onboarding, HUMAN fraud prevention, brand safety, and expanded CTV attribution tools.
In addition to new third-party integrations, FreeWheel has been heavily investing in platform tools for forecasting, trading, reporting, and insights. On the forecasting front, adding to our unique integration with Metamarkets for inventory curation, we released availability forecasting in late 2021 with a major upgrade slated for June 2022. From a setup and trading perspective, we added targeting variables to our industry-leading presets tool in December which, along with delivery modification, truly differentiates our bulk editing and “trader time-saving” capabilities from other platforms. On the delivery front, we’ve added new capabilities this year for QA-ing deal health and demystifying the bid decision flow within the platform. And from a reporting standpoint, we now offer a fully customizable, branded dashboarding tool to allow our buyers to truly “in-house” the Beeswax technology, with only a few minutes of trading or analytics work needed!
Not a trading expert? Don’t worry. Beeswax now offers 360-degree always-on, fully transparent managed services resources, as well as partnerships with some of the best programmatic services firms in market.
But beyond the core Beeswax technology that operates within the third-party ecosystem, we’ve undergone a year-long project to directly integrate the buy side and the sell side of FreeWheel.
Add to this our FreeWheel/Comcast+ TV ecosystem and targeting segments and Beeswax advertisers get:
- Direct access to both CTV and premium video inventory – FreeWheel covers 90% of the premium video inventory.
- Industry-leading targeting – Comcast+ brings Comcast’s aggregated set-top box viewership data and a wide range of partners to provide better target audience identification. This enables reach management (give me households that don’t watch TV), brand affinity (show me households that have seen 3-7 ads from Brand X on their TV in the last 30 days), and new creative strategic options, such as deterministic reach to top genre viewers (sports, DIY, news, etc).
- Best-in-class value – With the SSP and DSP directly connected, you reduce hops in the transaction. This drastically improves media efficiency, reducing latency and increasing match rates, and improves CPM predictability and forecasting. Bid-shading further enables advertisers to reduce media costs and extract the most business value from campaigns.
- Attribution and incrementality – IP-based and first-party attribution models can provide more accurate reporting and performance statistics. Ghost bidding and experiment features that allow for flexible incrementality testing, without the cost of paying for a non-exposed control group.
- Fraud protection – Because of the structure of our tech stack, we’re able to verify both sides of the transaction on FreeWheel supply.
The combination of FreeWheel and Beeswax tech creates a best-in-class buying platform connected to industry-leading inventory access with Comcast+ providing scaled, deterministic viewer data.
This solution delivers real linear to CTV addressability and deterministic cross-platform buying.
Beeswax’s fully functional DSP offers a new, accessible pricing model, excellent CTV supply and viewership insight, and access to key data and partnerships.
