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Drive revenue growth, personalize ads and show ad buyers ROI with ad inventory and audience analytics solutions

Ad inventory & audience analytics solutions

Accurately deliver targeted ads, automate at scale, boost productivity, improve forecasting, and optimize ad inventory and pricing to grow your business.



Maximize profitability and improve customer satisfaction

Trustworthy AI and advanced analytics harness your audience data and provide actionable insights. SAS solutions help you outperform the competition, improve your marketing efforts, satisfy audiences, innovate faster and increase revenue.

Demand & ad inventory forecasting

Analyze cross-platform audience data for accurate forecasts, seasonality, past performance, channel and more.

Pricing optimization

Optimize pricing with automated rate card creation and campaign-specific dynamic pricing recommendations.

Ad targeting & personalization

Personalize experiences, minimize churn and optimize inventory for maximum revenue with trustworthy AI and machine learning.

The value of ad inventory & audience analytics solutions from SAS

  • 36 billion

    ITV, the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster, serves 36 billion highly targeted and personalized ad impressions per year into streaming platforms.

  • 10%

    MAFRA media group, the largest multimedia house in the Czech Republic, increased ad revenue by 10% with our solution that enabled faster, more efficient campaign management and better, more granular reporting.

  • 1,500

    REA Group manages 1,500 campaigns, 7,000 line items and 4,000 pieces of creative each month – the sheer scale of which is 3.2 billion ad impressions served up every 30 days.

  • A global media company accurately forecasts streaming audiences to support ad sellout and pricing. The company overcame unstructured, siloed sales and ad server data and "black box” forecasting with low confidence and inaccurate operational and corporate forecasts, and achieved better forecasts to maximize ad inventory utilization.

    SAS Viya: The data and AI platform for your TMT business

    Increase productivity, deliver exceptional customer experiences, accelerate innovation and achieve market growth with faster, more productive data and AI you and your customers can trust.


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    SAS is a leader in analytics solutions

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    Featured products

    Learn more about our digital media analytics products and solutions for audience data and ad inventory management – and how they will help you improve profitability.

    • First-party ad server | SAS 360 Match

      Build your own advertising ecosystem with an independent, flexible first-party ad server.

      • Media monetization fully in your control.
      • Hyperpersonalized experience with real-time decisioning.
      • Digital ad forecasting with conversion tracking.
      • Personalized ads to retail media networks.

      SAS Forecast Server

      Produce large numbers of forecasts quickly and automatically to improve planning and decision making.

      • Easy-to-use GUI and automatic forecasting.
      • Scalability and modeling.
      • Automatic outlier detection.
      • Interactive time series exploration and analysis.
    • SAS Optimization

      Use a powerful array of optimization, simulation and project scheduling techniques for identifying actions that will get the best results, while operating within resource limitations and other relevant restrictions.

      • Cloud-native with robust, intuitive algebraic optimization modeling language.
      • Powerful optimization solvers and presolvers.
      • Network flow optimization.
      • Decomposition algorithm (automated Dantzig-Wolfe).

      SAS Visual Forecasting

      Generate large numbers of trustworthy forecasts, quickly and automatically, using time series and machine learning techniques.

      • Cloud-native, open forecasting ecosystem.
      • Automatic time series analysis and forecasting.
      • Interactive modeling.
      • Machine learning and deep learning.
    • SAS Visual Text Analytics

      Scale the human act of reading, organizing and extracting useful information from huge volumes of textual data.

      • NLP, ML and deep learning methods and linguistic rules.
      • Native support for 33 languages and LLM-based classification.
      • Trend, sentiment and corpus analysis.
      • Hybrid modeling approaches.