Media partner as a platform For ambitious marketers

Plan/Buy/Optimise

Make your biggest marketing spend your biggest advantage.

MediaCo gives ambitious marketers the strategy, specialist talent and premium media access usually reserved for the biggest advertisers. You get an expert team and one platform, with a plan that keeps getting better.

Media value
Up to 5x more from the same budget
Channels
One plan across every touchpoint
Oversight
Close to real time visibility of the whole investment
01 — The problemCapability & access

The best media capability and access go to the biggest budgets.

The capability and access gap

Ambitious marketers need exceptional strategy, specialist talent and technology. They also need premium inventory, buying power and opportunities they can't unlock alone. Their media spend is substantial, but often too small to command the best the industry has to offer.

What it costs the marketer

You're accountable for one of the biggest lines in the budget, without the setup that would make it work hardest. Better opportunities stay out of reach. Opacity also makes unnecessary costs and underperformance harder to challenge.

Where there is mystery, there is margin.

02 — The answerMedia partner as a platform

The tools and approaches of a top media agency. One platform. In your hands.

MediaCo pairs an exceptional media partner with a platform that makes the work smarter and more efficient. We do the specialist work and explain every decision, so you get a better setup without taking on another job.

Capability

Exceptional thinking, put to work.

Strategy and talent, backed by the technology, planning, optimisation and systems that make the investment work better. Good judgement matters as much as efficient execution.

Access

Premium means getting the good stuff.

Premium inventory, channels, buying power, tools and opportunities a mid-market advertiser wouldn't normally unlock at its scale. Access gives good thinking somewhere better to go.

We've done this before

  • Tracksuit made world-class brand tracking radically more affordable.
  • Ideally made high-quality consumer insight much, much faster.
  • Drumbeat made PR and storytelling much more accessible.
  • MediaCo is doing the same for media planning and buying.
03 — Smarter planningPlan

Advertising does two equally important jobs.

Job 01

Creates future demand

Warms up the large group who aren't in the market yet, so when they do arrive, they already lean towards your brand and product.

Channels
Connected TV and video, organic social, out-of-home, podcasts
Formats
Emotional, attention-grabbing content: short-form storytelling, high-impact visuals, audio
Job 02

Converts current demand

Gets as many of the small group of in-market shoppers as possible to act on that preference and choose your brand.

Channels
Search, retail media, retargeting, social
Formats
Search text ads, sponsored product listings, dynamic product carousels

It's more efficient to make people want your product before asking them to buy it.

  • 01

    Future demand, built into the plan

    Every plan applies Future Demand principles, matching the right channels and formats to each demand pool.

  • 02

    Fuller buyer journeys

    Audience understanding runs through planning, buying, optimisation and reporting, and sharpens as we learn.

  • 03

    Live plans and scenario tools

    Get a strategic view of your activity and live media plans, ready for your approval.

04 — Smarter buyingBuy · Optimise

Cross-channel optimisation.

Every platform optimises itself.
Meta optimises Meta.
Google optimises Google.

MediaCo optimises the whole plan.

  • Integrated with the best buying platforms
  • A wide range of premium media channels
  • Audience journeys and campaigns optimised in real time
05 — The systemPlan · Buy · Optimise

More value comes from the whole system.

The expertise stays with the investment. Each campaign teaches the next, with a clear record of what changed, why it changed and what happened as a result.

Better targeting

Reach the audiences that matter, using audience insight that builds with every campaign.

Better buying

Access wider, premium media channels and buy more efficiently, with nothing hidden.

Better allocation

Move money between channels, and between current and future demand, as the evidence comes in.

Less machinery

Automate planning, trafficking, optimisation and reporting so the team can focus on decisions.

06 — ResultsFoundational partner case study · USA

What could MediaCo do with your budget?

One of our foundational partners kept the same $600K media budget. Here is what changed once MediaCo planned, bought and optimised it.

Today With MediaCo
Channels
2
10
Reach deduplicated
7M
14M
Frequency
4
9
Total impressions
28M
127M
CPM lower is better
$21.40
$4.82
07 — How we workTrust & transparency

Expert enough to trust. Open enough to understand.

  1. 01

    Show where the money goes

    Every cost is easy to understand, and you can see what each one buys.

  2. 02

    Make access tangible

    See the opportunities that are now open to you and why they're worth having.

  3. 03

    Keep improving the whole plan

    Learning carries across campaigns, and today's results are balanced with tomorrow's demand.

  4. 04

    Build your confidence

    Reporting is built for the boardroom. It connects budget, decisions and evidence to what the business is trying to achieve.

08 — Start hereThe media investment review

Is your media investment as good as it could be?

Start with a media investment review. A senior team looks at your whole setup, then gives you a clear view of what to improve and why, in plain language.

  • Is the strategy as good as it could be?
  • Do you have access to the best opportunities?
  • Are your channels working together?
  • Is the balance between future and current demand right?