Display & Video 360 – Advanced Services

Knowledge Building, Infrastructure, Automation, and Optimization of DV360 Operations

Display & Video 360 (DV360) is a powerful technology for programmatic advertising. To achieve scalable results, a strong infrastructure is essential for accurate data flows and automated reporting. Digitl's advanced services provide custom integrations and workflow automation to address these needs.

Advanced Analysis

Advanced analysis for DV360 campaigns applies distinct methodologies to evaluate campaign performance. Predictive modeling uses historical data to estimate conversion likelihood. Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) quantifies the contribution of DV360 within the broader media mix. Geo-based incrementality testing isolates true campaign lift through region-based experiments. In-platform diagnostics complement these methods by identifying performance drivers such as device, inventory, and creative – supporting data-informed optimization.

Sophisticated Automation

Automation services for DV360 focus on streamlining campaign operations and ensuring consistent quality across large-scale programs. This includes automated naming conventions, frequency and budget governance, monitoring & alerting, and workflow orchestration via tools like Dagster and Data Build Tool (dbt). Digitl builds custom logic and alerting pipelines to ensure campaign setup integrity, pacing accuracy, and timely reporting – enabling more scalable, controlled execution.

Data Enrichment

In DV360, data enrichment improves targeting and measurement by adding external signals to campaign inputs. This includes importing audience segments, integrating situative or other event data, and applying predictive scores (e.g., conversion probability). These enrichments typically occur outside of DV360 – within CDPs, analytics platforms, or cloud pipelines – and are imported as custom audiences or used to plan media strategy. Enrichment helps ensure campaigns are aligned to real business priorities and audience relevance.

Data Integration

DV360 supports various integration points for bringing in first-party and offline data. This includes Customer Match via hashed uploads for CRM imports (for instance based on Customer Data Platform integrations), Floodlight-based conversion tracking, and secure clean room integrations for privacy-compliant segmentation. Digitl implements cloud-based pipelines to connect external data sources and integration of high-value audiences for activation. Such data usage ensures targeting precision and attribution integrity across campaigns.

Custom Bidding Solutions

Custom bidding in DV360 enables advertisers to create their own bidding logic by creating algorithms that prioritize outcomes beyond standard KPIs. This includes bidding on data representing customer lifetime value, lead quality, or attention-based signals such as scroll depth, time on screen, or viewability. Digitl supports the creation, testing, and deployment of Custom Bidding scripts – aligning bid decisions with upper-funnel performance and brand metrics or conversion value and ROAS models.

Knowledge Building

Knowledge Building ensures internal teams are equipped to work effectively with DV360’s technical features and custom workflows. This includes enablement around audience structuring, platform configuration, custom reporting, and the logic behind automation and bidding strategies. Digitl helps with this through structured onboarding, documentation, and tailored training formats – from team workshops to solution-specific knowledge transfers. The goal is to increase internal autonomy and reduce reliance on external resources for daily execution.

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Programmatic Academy

The Programmatic Academy equips marketing teams with the knowledge required to effectively operate within DV360. This modular training program covers platform fundamentals, audience strategy, campaign structuring, bidding logic, and reporting practices – from beginner to expert levels. Led by senior practitioners, sessions are tailored to real-world use cases and include interactive formats such as live webinars, practical exercises, and knowledge checks. The goal is to build internal capability and reduce operational dependency over time.

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Campaign Planning

Campaign planning in DV360 is enhanced through structured templates and AI-supported workflows. Digitl helps define campaign goals, audience segments, inventory strategy, and KPI targets – then maps these to DV360 line item structures and budget allocations. AI agents support forecasting, audience sizing, and scenario modeling based on historical platform data. This reduces planning cycles and improves alignment between strategic intent and technical execution. Planning outputs are documented to ensure consistency across teams and scalable reuse.

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GenAI Creatives

Generative AI tools can be used to produce creative variations aligned with DV360 video and display formats. By inputting product information, campaign themes, or audience cues, teams can generate brand-compliant assets at scale. Outputs are adapted to meet platform specifications and optimized for quick testing across formats. Digitl supports creative workflows that integrate GenAI outputs into DV360 setups, reducing production overhead while increasing asset diversity and speed to market.

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Automated Campaign Creation

Automated campaign creation simplifies campaign setup in DV360 by programmatically generating insertion orders, line items, targeting logic, and creative placements. This automation draws from booking inputs in media plans or planning tools, using Google APIs to push configurations directly into DV360. In addition to reducing manual effort and setup errors, the process supports standardization through pre-defined naming conventions, taxonomy logic, and default configurations. AI agents enhance this workflow by analyzing historical campaign data, benchmarks, and pacing behavior to pre-select settings such as audience targeting, bid strategy, and budget allocation. These recommendations are used to pre-fill templates or flag potential issues before deployment – improving both efficiency and campaign performance from the start.

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Automated Campaign Optimization

Custom Bidding in DV360 allows advertisers to define their own bidding logic using predictive models tailored to specific business outcomes. Scripts can prioritize conversions, customer value, or engagement signals such as time on screen or scroll depth. Digitl helps teams deploy and tune these models using historical performance data and platform benchmarks. This enables more precise resource allocation, better alignment with strategic KPIs, and ongoing optimization through machine learning. Custom Bidding is particularly valuable for brand impact metrics and high-value conversion paths.

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Report Automation

Digitl builds automated reporting solutions that pull performance data from DV360, Campaign Manager 360 (CM360), and other connected platforms into dashboards customized for business needs. These reports deliver insights into pacing, performance anomalies, and goal alignment. AI agents support this process by flagging trends, summarizing performance drivers, and suggesting optimization actions based on historical patterns. Reports can be scheduled or delivered on demand, ensuring stakeholders have access to relevant data when and where it’s needed.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The cost is based on a percentage of monthly media spend. While many DSPs charge their fees based on the sum of media cost, data cost, and verification fees, the DSP fee with DV360 is limited to the media cost - the cost of buying impressions across digital platforms. DV360 offers unique transparency, including the possibility to separate invoice lines for line items as well as cost type.

DV360 includes real-time bidding and programmatic guaranteed. It supports a wide range of ad formats extending beyond Google's network, reaching almoast the entire internet via multiple ad exchanges and premium placements. By providing a single, integrated platform for managing cross-channel campaigns, DV360 is designed for complex, large-scale advertising needs, providing capabilities far beyond what Google Ads offers.

Media plan templates are customizable frameworks that help standardize and accelerate the campaign planning process. Powered by AI, these templates incorporate historical data, targeting logic, and channel strategies to guide budget allocation and audience segmentation. They serve as a repeatable structure for planning campaigns more efficiently while ensuring alignment with marketing goals and platform best practices.

The generative AI models are provided with your specific brand guidelines, existing creative assets, and performance data as part of the setup process. This ensures that the generated images and copy variations align with your brand identity while exploring new creative angles for testing.