Direct Digital Holdings partners with Basis Technologies on buy-and sell-side

Direct Digital Holdings, an advertising and marketing technology platform operating through its companies Colossus Media, Huddled Masses and Orange142, announced a new partnership with Basis Technologies (Basis), a global provider of programmatic advertising and media automation solutions.

As part of the agreement, Colossus SSP has directly integrated with the Basis media automation platform to enable more agencies and brands to increase diversity, equity and inclusion efforts by scaling spend on multicultural / diverse audiences and media, and minority-owned properties such as Blavity, Ebony and Univision.

In addition, Basis has been named a preferred demand-side platform (DSP) by Huddled Masses – which specializes in working with small- and mid-sized business (SMB) and middle-market business clients. With these types of advertisers often having smaller budgets, preventing them from accessing bigger technology platforms, this deal enables Basis to increase its reach with this set of underserved marketers.

Mark Walker, CEO and Co-founder, Direct Digital Holdings: "Basis Technologies is aligned with Direct Digital Holding's focus on democratizing programmatic advertising for all. The omnichannel capabilities and wide scale of Basis will bolster Colossus SSP's and Huddled Masses' abilities. In turn, the relationship with Huddled Masses is also giving Basis expanded reach to an often overlooked – but extremely valuable – group of advertisers."

Tyler Kelly, President, Basis Technologies: "Direct Digital Holdings and Basis Technologies want to be part of the solution to overcome the barriers that underserved groups on the buy- and sell-side face in digital media. The need for the technology and services that Direct Digital Holdings offers is obvious, as they provide the heft and influence that can channel ad technology innovations for the benefit of a wider set of organizations."

Currently, Colossus SSP represents 22,000 media properties – offering inventory from both multicultural / diverse and general market publishers. The company has 136,000 advertisers accessing its platform monthly, generating over 250 billion impressions per month across display, CTV, in-app and other media.

Huddled Masses is a marketing technology partner passionate about helping clients grow their business and serves as a long-term partner extension of the team, with decades of expertise to maximize the impact and efficiency of every client's media investment as well as drive performance marketing. 

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