Programmatic digital Out-of-Home: How programmatic DOOH works

Outdoor advertising (OOH) combines massive reach and strong brand recognition with the precision targeting and cost efficiency of programmatic digital out-of-home (pDOOH). But how can you maximize these advantages for your campaigns? Discover the answer in this quick four-step guide.

Last update: September 18, 2025

Step 1: Understanding the process:

If you're new to programmatic advertising, you'll need to know a few concepts about the buying process: the programmatic buying process relies on two platforms: SSP and DSP.

The SSP offers available impressions (through inventory). Subsequently, the DSP bids for the different screens (through a configured budget and different placements, among other factors).

Therefore, when the bid finds the best available option, it makes a real-time buy (RTB), simplifying the process and saving money.

This programmatic buying process has benefits for brands: bringing together screens and formats in one place, audience segmentation, real-time campaign editing, triggers, moving content and many more. So how do you run a programmatic campaign?

Step 2: Creating a pDOOH campaign

If you're wondering how to create a campaign in prDOOH to take advantage of all its benefits, this is where Taggify comes in!

Taggify's demand-side platform (DSP) offers a simple step-by-step interface where you select the date and time of the campaign, the budget, the duration, and the target audience (thanks to the combination with the database).

This allows you to launch a campaign quickly. What about planning?

Planning is necessary, as brands need to know their ideal customer, their geographic location, their working hours and so on, as well as the budget to invest.

To facilitate this, Taggify has a precision forecast system that projects estimated results of impacts from selecting the screens of interest to brands.

Step 3: What creative should you use?

A good creative is a creative that stops the pedestrian or driver for contemplating it. To achieve this, creatives need to think about the programmatic outdoor channel and its dynamism.

You can adapt creative from other channels, but keeping in mind the specificity of the channel is conducive to success.

Some useful tips are:

• One main message
• Vibrant colors
• Short texts
• Highly visual approach

Step 4: Measure and improve in Out of Home

What you don't measure, you can't improve. One indisputable benefit of programmatic, as applied to outdoor, is its ability to improve the performance of a campaign in real-time.

In the past, you would designate a budget, different placements, creative and launch a campaign, not knowing how it would perform until it was over. Today, that has changed.

By evaluating the performance of each screen, you can adjust the budget, redistribute it among the screens and formats that yield the best results and even change the creatives. This feedback makes programmatic an evolution of the outdoor medium.

You already have in your hands the knowledge to make successful programmatic advertising.

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