Introduction:
Digital Outdoor, a leading mobile DOOH operator in the UK, has been at the forefront of transforming the out-of-home media industry. They aimed to enhance their offering by integrating real-time audience measurement capabilities, and FastEdge emerged as the ideal partner to complement their existing datasets and provide robust audience metrics.
Background:
Digital Outdoor sought to revolutionize the DOOH advertising landscape by offering programmatic scheduling flexibility, cost efficiency, and genuine accountability to brands and advertisers. To achieve this, they needed a reliable solution to provide real-time audience metrics, and EdgeSkope AI platform proved to be the perfect fit.
Business Problem / Opportunity:
The main objective for Digital Outdoor was to leverage EdgeSkope AI capabilities to access real-time dwell data, enabling accurate impression multipliers, dwell time, attention time, and demographics data. This would empower them to offer enhanced campaign evaluation to brands and advertisers.
Solution:
Digital Outdoor embarked on a project to deploy cameras strategically on their vehicles, capturing oncoming road traffic and people around their digital screens. EdgeSkope AI advanced solution accurately measured the time spent by each vehicle within the camera’s field of view, as well as the number of people, their dwell time, and demographics, all while maintaining anonymity. The collected data was seamlessly streamed in real-time to Digital Outdoor’s Cloud Portal for assessment and combined with existing advertiser data for precise impression multipliers.
Results and Benefits:
The integration of EdgeSkope AI real-time audience measurement solution brought remarkable outcomes for Digital Outdoor:
VP of AI and Video
Jagan Kumar G is an experienced leader with extensive expertise in developing AI and Generative AI products across multiple industries. Proven ability to lead innovative AI-driven solutions, drive product strategy, and deliver cutting-edge technologies like real-time language translation, digital avatars, and AI assistants to optimize operations and enhance business growth.
Co-founder
Donald J Rippert is a man of many talents. He has served as President and CEO at Basho Technologies and CTO at Accenture, served as GM at IBM Cloud, and is a board member at InContext Solutions. He has also put his skills to use by running his own one person consulting company that caters to people working with technology and financial services. His colleagues have commended him for his proactive nature and ability to make working fun. In his spare time, he does fly fishing, which he thoroughly enjoys and helps him unwind.
Chief Financial Officer
John E. Handley cares immensely about Science and Technology, and believes in Economic Empowerment. He acted as a partner at Accenture for several years before founding his own companies, first Direct Tech and now FastEdge. He is also a member of the Board of Directors at Net Medical Xpress, a position he has held for over 18 years now. Furthermore, he has been serving as CFO at IVZ, LLC, for more than 14 years, and is also a self-employed consultant in the IT and Telecommunications fields. His hobbies include brewing beer at home and growing hops for the purpose in his own backyard.
Chief Executive Officer
Panner Ramalingam is an entrepreneur with a drive to come up with consistently creative solutions using Artificial Intelligence. He has a knack for developing businesses from the ground up, and even successfully built and sold a Video on Demand business. He has an impressive employment history where he has done everything from being a Senior Executive at Accenture to acting as Chief Technology Officer at Evolution Digital.