What is AdRacer

An all-in-one tool

For planning and managing all kinds of marketing and advertising activities. Allows to plan the activity in all communication channels from one window

Autonomous and universal desktop application, not tied to any research and monitoring databases and can be used on any market with similar planning approaches

Automatic calculation of media plans and flowchart

The application automatically calculates media plans, any metrics and KPIs you may need including Reach&Frequency for all communication channels

Automatically builds a summary plan (flowchart) including all used communication channels

Media plans and flowchart customization

Allows to create unlimited number of custom (user defined) formats of media plans with desired sets of KPIs. A media plan can be rebuilt in any of these formats just in one click

The format of the flowchart can be defined by user in a couple of clicks too – allows to select which markets, categories, brands, campaigns, communication channels to reflect and which KPIs to reflect for each communication channel

Switching between flowchart formats can be implemented just in one click too

Allows to change data representation in media plan’s activity schedules just in one click (weekly, monthly, by-flight)

Summary reports

Summary reports are built in a couple of clicks and allow to view and analyze data in any time-split (monthly, weekly, total) and any context – by TV channels, sales-houses, online platforms, creatives, campaigns, brands, categories, etc.

Builds post-buying reports in the same way, plus – reflects comparison of actual and planned data

Strategy

The strategic module Strateguide - Reach and Effective frequency calculator for TV and online communication channels – an indispensable tool in development of media strategies

Your indispensable assistant

A “workhorse” aimed to make your work life much easier and stressless, save your time, replace all the variety of your Excel files and calculators and provide incomparably greater functionality in data management and representation

A great supportive functionality, like auto-completion, planning patterns, data import-export, etc., provides a huge time saving while working with the application

Totally controls all user’s actions – blocks obviously incorrect actions, warns about suspicious (possibly incorrect) actions to exclude or minimize human-factor mistakes

Client portfolio

Manage unlimited number of markets, categories, brands and campaigns

Simple and easily readable hierarchy and navigation

Communication channels

Create 3600 marketing plan:

— 7 communication channels groups

— 36 sub-channels (eg. National TV, Regional TV, Online video, Online display, Search, etc.)

— “Other” may include any other activities or assignments like BTL, events or even creative and adaptation works

Planning of multimedia advertising campaign
Advertising flowchart example
Selection of media KPIs to be reflected in the flowchart

Summary plan (flowchart)

Manage all your activities in a single flowchart:

— Select data to be displayed and analyzed (markets, categories, brands, etc.) in a couple of clicks

— Set flowchart format according to your preferences and needs - include necessary sets of metrics and KPIs for each communication channel in a couple of clicks

Creation of custom formats of media plans

Use default formats or create any desired format of media plan for each communication channel just in a few clicks

— 40+ KPIs available for TV & radio

— 30+ KPIs available for online

— 20+ KPIs available for other channels

Annual TV plan example
TV plan KPIs selection
Online (digital) media plan example
Online (digital) plan KPIs selection
By-flight KPIs distribution in activity schedule
By-flight KPIs distribution in activity schedule
Monthly KPIs distribution in activity schedule
Summary KPIs monthly distribution in activity schedule
Summary KPIs by-flight distribution in activity schedule

Data representation in media plans

Get desired data representation in activity schedule just in one click

— By flights, monthly, weekly

Get desired data representation in total rows of activity schedule just in one click

— By flights, monthly

Data actualization (post-campaign)

Actualize past periods’ data to reflect it in the plan

Input options:

— Manual (or copy-paste from Excel)

— Import from Excel

Automatic revision of actual data for possible logical mistakes

Import of TV campaign actual data for creation of post-buying report
Import of online (digital) campaign actual data for creation of post-buying report
Auto-revision of TV campaign actual data
Auto-revision of online campaign actual data
TV ad campaign report example
Digital ad campaign example
TV campaign post-buying report example - planned and actual data comparison
Online campaign post-buying report example - planned and actual data comparison

Reporting

Build any kind of report you can imagine just in a couple of clicks

— Monthly, weekly, total

— Single KPI / Multi KPIs

— Single market, category, brand, campaign, media or any combination of them

– Actual vs. planned data comparison for post-campaign reports

— View and analyze data in any context - eg. by TV channels, web sites, sellers, formats, creatives, media channels, campaings, brands, categories, markets

Strateguide

Develop and justify media strategies using Strateguide strategy tool:

— Recommendations for Reach

— Effective frequency on TV

— Effective frequency in online

— Media weights (target GRPs) level on TV

Strategic advertising and media planning - effective frequency calculator | reach calculator
Media strategy - TV media weights level definition
Export flowchart to Excel
Export TV plan to Excel
Export online plan to Excel

Interaction with Microsoft Office tools

Total support of standard Windows clipboard operations both inside and outside the application (eg. from/to Excel)

Export your plans to Excel with identical to the application appearance

Data export-import

Support of export – import (extract - integrate) operations from or to application file to share some limited data from your file (eg. one particular market, media channel, etc.) with partners or team members or to integrate data got from them to your file

Partial or complete import and export data in the application

Application interface customization

Use a default theme, or create your own ones, based on your corporate colors and guidelines to keep your identity

Why do you need AdRacer

No need for countless homemade Excel calculators

No need for creation various Excel plans, flowcharts, linking them to each other, adaptation to each client needs and wishes

No wasting time on manual preparing numerous reports with various data representation

No mechanical or random mistakes caused by the human factor

A great supportive functionality and variety of “buns” (like auto-completing, planning patterns, etc.) making all the processes much easier, faster and less annoying

A huge time saving in planning, reporting, pre- and post-campaign analyzing processes

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