Connected TV advertising for agencies.

Built for independents.

Holdco access with independent economics. Curated connected TV (CTV), live sports, and online video for your clients, activated in the DSP your team already uses.

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HOLDCO CAPABILITIES. INDEPENDENT SPIRIT.

Why independent agencies choose Splashbay for connected TV

Connected TV for agencies should do three things: lower what your clients pay for premium media, protect your margin, and keep your team in control.

Upfront-level CPMs

Stronger buying economics for your clients, with inventory and terms agreed for each plan.

Room for agency value

Price your expertise clearly. Your client pricing and service scope define the margin you retain.

Your Deal IDs. Your supply paths.

Bring curation in-house with no infrastructure build. Your agency stays in control of its supply strategy.

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THE PROGRAMMATIC DOLLAR

Know the costs. Price your value.

See the complete buying cost behind every plan, then price the value your agency brings to the client.

THE BUYING SIDE

Buying costs

THE AGENCY SIDE

Agency value

Where agency margin sits
Illustrative, not to scale
Buying costs
Media CPM
Fees
Curation
Client price
Media CPM
Fees
Curation
Agency margin

See the complete buying cost behind every plan, then price the value your agency brings to the client.

Connected TV and more for your clients

You bring the client idea. We bring the curated media, technology, and people, all through the buying workflow you already know.

 
CHANNELS
connected tv

Connected TV

Curated streaming environments that put your brand in the living room

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Live Sports

True live in-game, live and shoulder programming, and high-attention mobile.

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Online video

Premium video beyond the TV screen, curated for each campaign.

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Display, mobile + native

Stay in the picture across everyday browsing and second-screen moments.

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Audience Curation

Bring shopper intent and audience strategy into the plan.

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Supply path optimization

More visibility into your supply paths and media economics.
See how PubHub plans your connected TV mix by channel, publisher, and audience.
TRANSPARENCY + ACCESS

Premium CTV publishers
for your clients

See the supply behind every deal, including inventory that can be obscured inside broader bundles. Your clients run across recognizable publishers and platforms.

Publisher or platform

Type

Access

HBO / Warner Bros. Discovery

Premium networks and streaming
Available

NBC / Peacock

Premium streaming
Available

Paramount

Premium streaming
Available

Pluto TV

FAST
Available

Plex

FAST and AVOD
Available

Samsung

Smart TV (OEM)
Available

Vizio

Smart TV (OEM)
Available

Netflix, YouTube TV, Disney / Hulu, Amazon

Closed ecosystems
Harder at scale

Access subject to availability and approval. No B.S.: we flag closed ecosystems before you pitch them to a client.

HOW IT WORKS

We build Deal IDs around your clients' goals

Built for the environment where they run

The same publisher can behave very differently depending on the exchange and DSP combination. We test and structure each deal around the targeting, publishers, pricing, and supply paths that perform best where it will actually run.

Managed once spend begins

We do not hand over a Deal ID and walk away. Supply-side data lets us remove bundles and supply paths that are not responding, underperforming, or priced too high before they waste client budget.

Diagram of a CTV buying path for connected TV advertising for agencies, routing Publisher B through Exchange A to the agency’s DSP.
YOUR TEAM. YOUR CALL.

Two ways to run connected TV for your clients

Direct curation

Managed support

Who buys

Your agency’s traders, in your DSP seat

Our team, through coordinated buying

Media planning

Your team, with Splashbay technology and expertise

Our team, on your client brief

You control

Deal IDs, supply paths, and economics

Client pricing and service scope

Agreed before launch

Inventory and commercial terms

Activation route, reporting, costs, and support

Best for

Agencies with an in-house trading team

Agencies that want extra planning and buying capacity

Works with the DSPs and exchanges you already use

  • Index Exchange
  • Media.net
  • Nexxen
  • Magnite
  • PubMatic
Not sure which fits your agency? We will walk through both.
AGENCY CASE STUDIES

Different briefs.One hands-on approach.

LUXURY AUTO · INDEPENDENT AGENCY

Specific audiences. Greater scale.

Awareness for new luxury vehicle models among Asian-language speakers across the US. Direct deals with major exchanges built curated PMPs around the agency’s language-specific targeting.

Significantly higher scale at lower CPMs than had previously been accessible for this advertiser.

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NATIONAL QSR · INDEPENDENT AGENCY

Multicultural reach. Built for completion.

A CTV strategy centered on original equipment manufacturer (OEM) inventory, bringing the multicultural audience objective and the video completion goal into one media plan.

Video completion rate (VCR) set as the central performance priority.

 
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PROGRAMMATIC TRADING AGENCY

Live football. Less legwork.

Live football is hard to access and coordinate. Splashbay worked directly with exchanges and publishers to assemble live-game deals, shoulder programming, and conference packages.

One partner for live football deal creation, combining CTV and high-attention mobile.

 
 
THE TECHNOLOGY

Four products. One operating toolkit.

PUBHUB · PLAN

Discover your mix. Shape your brief.

An interactive planner for building a client’s connected TV mix, then handing it to our team to activate.

Ichiro
ICHIRO · OPERATE

A little less chaos. A lot more control.

The operating system for ad curation. Reporting, deals, clients, and economics in one place.

HILLSTONE · OPTIMIZE

The feedback loop CTV has been missing.

A custom model for each campaign, or across campaigns, that uses client performance to improve the supply you buy.

 
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BRUNSON AI · DISCOVER

AI is the multiplier.

AI is not the company. It puts better signals behind the people running your campaigns.

 

Connected TV for agencies: FAQs

How does connected TV for agencies create room for margin?
Curated supply and direct publisher relationships bring buying costs closer to upfront-level CPMs. You see the full cost behind each plan: media, platform fees, and agreed curation and support. Your agency then sets client pricing and service scope, which define the margin you retain.
Splashbay works on the supply side, so your DSP stays. We curate inventory across exchanges and publishers, package it into Deal IDs, and deliver them into the DSP seat your team already uses, including StackAdapt, The Trade Desk, DV360, GroundTruth, Jamloop, and Madhive.
We work across publishers and platforms including HBO / Warner Bros. Discovery properties, NBC / Peacock, Paramount, Pluto TV, Plex, Samsung, and Vizio, subject to availability. Closed ecosystems such as Netflix, YouTube TV, Disney / Hulu, and Amazon can be harder to access at scale.
We keep managing it. Supply-side data shows which bundles and supply paths are not responding, underperforming, or priced too high, and we remove them before they waste client budget. The goal is a cleaner bidstream, stronger delivery, and efficient CPMs without giving up quality or scale.
No. A cheap impression that reaches the wrong household or runs on a weak supply path costs your client more in the end. We balance media quality, audience relevance, and complete buying costs against the client’s KPI and your agency’s economics.
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