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Media Planning & Buying

The media strategy, planning, and buying processes are at the heart of our value. We provide insightful recommendations, pain-free execution, and accurate buys. All details, such as handling vendors and owning tasks, move from your plate to ours.

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MEDIA BUYING APPROACH

Acting as your agency of record (AOR) with all media representatives, opportunities, and billing, we'll handle planning, execution, reporting, reconciliation, and billing with vendors on your behalf, confirming you’ve received accurate media and impressions. Longstanding and positive relationships with vendors nationwide support your media program’s success.

Benefits of a media agency:

Relationships and Strategy

Vision Media is a team of seasoned media buyers. We know what works and how to optimize media strategies to make the most of your budget. Vendor relationships give us access to new placements, executions, and targeting as they become available. We know how to integrate the media mix to amplify impressions, awareness, store traffic, and sales.

Buying and Negotiating Power

Buying millions of dollars of digital and traditional advertising across the U.S. allows us to negotiate rates and added value above what you can realize directly. Media often has hidden costs, and we know what market rate and CPM to pay for various mediums, getting the lowest rates and best value for you.

An Objective Perspective

We are agnostic in our media preferences. Media is recommended based on the audience, goal, market, and where we see success. Our expertise allows us to evaluate vendors and media options that save money and translate into better results than working with vendors directly.

4-Point O's Media Approach

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Handling the Details

Buying media requires a lot of details, reconciliation, and holding vendors to what was promised. Our media team can handle these details efficiently on your behalf, letting you focus on the overall strategy and creative for your brand. A few of these details include:

  • Integrating data from multiple platforms
  • Fielding inquiries and meetings with market reps
  • Media research
  • Establishing relationships with platforms and vendors
  • Negotiating and activating media buys
  • Reviewing and signing IOs (Insertion Orders)
  • Trafficking spots
  • Reconciling invoices, payments and AP
  • Tagging trackers
  • Added value reporting
  • Tagging for brand safety and viewability
  • POP/screenshots/tear sheets
  • Confirmation of proper creative and rotations
  • Pacing reports and optimization of plans
  • Measuring media effectiveness
  • Media Channels 

    From digital to traditional advertising, we manage the complete range of media outlets.

  • Digital Display Advertising
    Digital Display Advertising
  • Linear TV Advertising
    Linear TV Advertising
  • Out of Home Advertising
    Out of Home Advertising
  • OTT-CTV
    OTT-CTV
  • Paid Search
    Paid Search
  • Print Advertising
    Print Advertising
  • Programmatic Advertising
    Programmatic Advertising
  • Radio/Audio Advertising
    Radio/Audio Advertising
  • Social Media Advertising
    Social Media Advertising

Testimonial

“Vision has done an outstanding job for us. I had not found an agency that could provide the level of expertise and service necessary to support our growth as we move forward. The Vision team has done that.”

Susan Mandarino, Chief Marketing Officer at Abound Credit Union
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Media Projects

From a behemoth national beverage company to small local businesses, we dive deep into media opportunities and review the best media channels to achieve your goals.

See how we’ve helped a few of our media clients achieve their marketing goals.

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