CS Context
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The programmatic exchange on the operator's terms.

CS Context connects your screens to DSPs. You set the floor prices, approve the creatives and choose who may buy.

CS Context in brief

Your own SSP, between your CMS and the buyers of airtime

CS Context lets you sell airtime on your screens to programmatic buyers yourself. You choose the demand partners and the floor prices, and every play your CMS confirms is recorded and priced, so you settle on what actually aired.

Who works in it
Your managers set prices and choose demand partners, moderators review creatives, and viewers read the statistics and reports.
What it covers
CS Context covers RTB auctions, programmatic guaranteed campaigns, automated guaranteed campaigns on screens run by CS Play, private deals, creative review, reporting and billing.
Next to other CityScreen products
CS Play or another CMS supplies the inventory and plays the creatives, and CS Deals removes what your sales team reserved or booked from programmatic sale.

What CS Context does

01 · independence

CS Context sells your airtime only on your behalf.

It sells only to the demand partners you enable and buys no advertising itself, so every buyer on your screens is one you chose. Your CMS stays the master list of your inventory, so your team keeps managing screens where it does today.

02 · sales models

Sell the same screens 4 ways through one platform.

RTB auctions fill unsold slots in real time, and programmatic guaranteed sells a buyer plays that take the slot ahead of every bid. Automated guaranteed lets a buyer book a campaign on your CS Play screens after your approval, and a private deal gives one partner slots served from its own ad server.

03 · floor prices

Floor prices by slot length or by audience.

Set the floor price per slot length, or per 1,000 OTS so that a slot seen by more people gets a higher floor. No auction sells your airtime below the floor you set.

04 · creative review

Your reviewers decide what airs from your auctions.

Creatives bidding in your auctions air only after your reviewers approve them, or automatically for the partners on your automatic approval list. Legal and brand safety reviewers can each sign off, and one rejection keeps the creative off your screens. Private-deal partners serve creatives from their own libraries without this review.

Scenarios

Which side of the exchange are you on?

Each scenario for media owners shows these capabilities in one sales situation, and the scenarios for buyers show how a DSP connects to a media owner's screens and checks what it bought.

Prove every play

Sell airtime on figures the buyer builds from the same confirmed plays as you: every opportunity, played or not shown, reported to the buyer, photographs where your CMS supplies them, and money records nobody rewrites.

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Run it yourself

Programmatic on your terms: only the demand partners you enable can buy, on the faces and at the floors your price list sets, sold by a platform that buys no advertising itself.

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Independent, and in the game

Agency money consolidates toward networks that are easy to buy. CS Context lets an independent network enable, with its own connection details, the demand partners already on the platform, and keeps the delivery evidence in the same system.

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Your rules on your screens

A buyer's creatives reach the street after your own departments sign off, on the faces you choose; only the buyers on your automatic approval list and the partners you sell to through private deals skip the queue.

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Compete for online budgets

The budget rival is the online channel that proves delivery event by event. CS Context gives out-of-home delivery evidence a media buyer can compare with it.

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Integrate and buy

One connection to every media owner on the platform: registered once, switched on by each media owner, with the floor shown before you bid and a reason with every rejected creative.

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Verify what you bought

Buy DOOH on evidence: the outcome of every opportunity reported to you, photographs where the screen's CMS supplies them, and the price you pay in every auction win notice.

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Ecosystem

Once the platform administrator has registered a demand partner, your owner, admin or manager enables it, admits it to a price list and gives it your access token. Several DSPs run in parallel, and each can be switched off on its own.

CMS CS Context is built to pair with CS Play and works with other content management systems such as KIS, SpinetiX and CubicVision.

How it works

Getting started in 3 steps.

Step 1
Connect

Enable a registered DSP, admit it to a price list and give it your access token. Inventory syncs from your CMS every hour.

Step 2
Price

Assign price lists to faces per sales model, with floor prices per slot length or per 1,000 OTS.

Step 3
Sell

Review incoming creatives, then sell through auctions, programmatic guaranteed and automated guaranteed campaigns at your prices.

One pipeline

Floors per 1,000 OTS start from the audience estimate your CMS sends with each ad request, which CS Context corrects with the face’s saturation before pricing. CS Play publishes the OTS and GRP figures you enter for each screen, so the estimate comes from your own data.

CS Deals

One system from request to photo report.

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CS EdgeInsights

Turn traffic into sellable impressions.

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Before procurement asks

Answers to the questions IT will raise.

Will you compete with my sales team?
No. CS Context has no advertiser interface and runs no DSP. Your own employees choose which demand partners may buy, and your direct deals stay with your sales team.
Do I lose price control?
You set floor prices per slot length, allow or block DSPs per price list, and give a partner that must always be preferred its own price list.
What ends up on my screens?
In auctions, creatives your reviewers approved and creatives from partners on your automatic approval list. Private-deal partners serve creatives from their own libraries. Sign-off by several review positions and per-screen restrictions are built in.
Do I need CS Play to use it?
No. CS Context synchronizes with your CMS, CS Play or a similar system. Automated guaranteed campaigns are the exception: they run only on screens that CS Play manages.

Put your inventory on the programmatic market on your own terms.