Programmatic and display media
From the top of the funnel down to local interactions, take your brand’s reach to the next level with our integrated, AI-enhanced programmatic and display media solutions.
Move your media forward with an award-winning agency
Forrester Wave
DAC Group is cited for our unique offering for multi-location brands.
Globee Awards
Female-Led Department of the Year for Jenna Watson, our SVP of Media.
Search Engine Land Awards
Best Local Search Marketing Initiative – PPC with our client The Fresh Market.
Capture attention in all the right ways
By combining deep insights, precise targeting, and powerful creative—as well as the latest advances in machine learning—we deliver the right message to the right audience at the right time, moving your brand forward in the eyes of those that matter most: your customers.
Do more with your data
Programmatic campaigns generate tons of performance data. Don’t let it go to waste—transform it into a priceless resource that can be used across your business with IRIS, our fully integrated marketing platform.
Proprietary tech built for powerful outcomes
TotalSERP
Orchestrate cohesive search strategies to dominate across paid, organic, and local.
Motive
Take control of your media with audience-first insights, planning, activation, and reporting.
Guardrail
Supercharge AI productivity by streamlining interactions and maximizing efficiency.
Highlander
Streamline analytics and reporting, enhancing decision-making across marketing channels.
Supercharge your media
Our programmatic campaigns are business-driving, budget-maximizing machines. But we can achieve even more when we combine programmatic and display with related tactics, empowering teams to share insights, address complex challenges, and reach bigger outcomes faster.
Programmatic in action
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FAQ
Efficient programmatic buying minimizes waste by tightening inventory quality, audience logic, supply-path choices, frequency controls, and measurement standards before spend scales. It should prove that impressions are reaching the right people in the right environments, not just clearing cheap ad inventory through automated pipes.
A privacy-first programmatic audience strategy relies less on brittle identifiers like cookies and more on first-party data, contextual signals, modeled audiences, and disciplined testing. A modern plan should preserve reach and relevance while preparing for signal loss, consent constraints, and changing platform access.
Programmatic transparency and brand safety still break down around opaque fees, questionable supply chains, weak placement visibility, and inconsistent enforcement across partners. Brands need clearer inventory controls, better reporting, and explicit safeguards so media quality is not assumed simply because delivery looks efficient.
Display advertising incrementality is hard to prove when programs rely on click-through logic or platform-reported conversions that overstate contribution. Stronger evaluation uses lift testing, holdouts, blended measurement, and post-view analysis tied to real business outcomes rather than display’s easiest metrics.
Programmatic creative testing should shape how audiences are reached, what message they see, and how quickly media learns which combinations actually change behavior. High-performing marketing campaigns connect creative variants, audience data, and testing cadence so optimization improves both relevance and efficiency.