Social Gear/Media Console

Media buying, connected across channels.

Build and manage display, online video, Connected TV, streaming audio, native, and retargeting campaigns through one Social Gear workflow. Control audiences, geography, budgets, pacing, creative, measurement, and reporting without moving between disconnected buying interfaces.

Media Console proofLIVE
CampaignActive
PacingOn target
AudienceSelected
ReportingConnected
app.socialgear.com / media / campaign● LIVE
CampaignsAudiencesCreativesInventoryPixelBillingReports
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Delivery status● pacing on target
Audience selection● audience selected
Campaign activePacing on targetAudience selectedReporting connected
Campaign active
ready for launch
Pacing on target
delivery stays within plan
Audience selected
precision targeting
Reporting connected
signals flow into Social Gear
The problem

One workflow for approved media connections.

The Problem

Stitched-together vendors and guesswork.

Brands are forced to stitch together multiple vendors, rely on inferred audience guesses from walled gardens, and settle for broad targeting when they need more precise control.

The result is margin leakage,duplicated audiences, and wasted ad spend.

Vendor 1 · DSPVendor 2 · dataVendor 3 · videoVendor 4 · verificationVendor 5 · reportingDMA-level only
The solution

One Media Console. Simplified.

One unified platform. Campaigns launch across supported media formats, screen types, and stages of the funnel.

Use the workflow directly, or have our team manage it for you.

Either way, Social Gear provides clear targeting controls and campaign visibility.

Unified workflowNormalized reportingApproved connections
Core capabilities

Programmatic media through Media Console.

Programmatic media is available through the Social Gear Media Console today, covering eligible display, online video, CTV, audio, native, and retargeting capabilities.

Audience and targeting

Targeting that follows the campaign objective.

Select geography, language, device, context, first-party audiences, retargeting, and supported multicultural-audience criteria from one planning experience. Available targeting varies by channel, market, consent, data rights, and provider policy.

Hyperlocal National Global ZIP-code targeting Display Video CTV Audio Native
Audience builder · geoAudience selected
Selected audienceCampaign activeReporting connected
01Display banners● available
02Pre-roll & mid-roll video● available
03Connected TV (CTV)● available
04Streaming audio● available
05Native placements● available
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Unified data and inventory

One brief. One normalized media view.

Social Gear normalizes permitted inventory, audience, pricing, campaign, and performance data from approved connections into its repository. The platform maps each brief to eligible channels and inventory, while deterministic controls govern permissions, pricing, budget, activation, and reporting.

Approved connections Normalized data Deterministic controls
Action funnelpersistent segment
Campaign activeActive
Audience selectedSelected
Pacing on targetOn target
Reporting connectedConnected
Illustrative interface states — connect your pixel to populate live values.
Expansion

Built to expand with the media market.

The Media Console is designed to add approved search, retail-media, app-advertising, AI-advertising, and exchange connections without changing the client workflow. New connections appear only after commercial approval, API access, security review, testing, and production certification.

  • Search and performance media Planned
  • Apple app and map advertising Planned
  • Retail media Planned
  • AI-environment advertising Planned
  • Additional approved exchanges and advertising APIs Under evaluation
Measurement

Channel-level clarity. One reporting framework.

Social Gear stores normalized campaign and performance data in its own reporting layer, allowing teams to compare delivery, spend, reach, engagement, conversion, and other available channel metrics in one framework. Provider-specific metrics retain their original definitions and must not be presented as directly comparable when methodologies differ.

Service model

Self-service or managed service—with the same visibility.

Run approved Media Console capabilities directly, or work with the Social Gear team for planning, activation, optimization, and reporting. Your dashboard remains the shared source of truth either way.

Direct operation

Run approved Media Console capabilities directly.

Team support

Get planning, activation, optimization, and reporting support.

Shared visibility

Your dashboard remains the shared source of truth.

Approved capabilities

Access only connections that have completed review and certification.

Feature spotlight · The multicultural targeting layer

Verified consumption, not inferred affinity.

For brands seeking diverse audiences—South Asian, Hispanic, African-American, Caribbean—we offer a verified targeting layer powered by our EthnicOnlineNetwork (EON): 200+ dedicated diaspora publishers.

Walled gardens
Inferred-affinity platforms
  • × Inferred affinity
  • × Guesses based on page likes
  • × Approximation
  • × DMA-level geography
Social Gear · EON
Verified network
  • ✓ Verified consumption
  • ✓ Knows based on actual content consumed
  • ✓ Precision
  • ✓ Verified geography

EON verifies behavior. Walled gardens only guess.

Use cases

Built for agencies, brands, and performance marketers.

Whether you manage clients, brands, or performance targets, Social Gear adapts to how your team works.

Agencies

Run every client from one cockpit.

Manage more accounts without adding headcount, logins, or late nights.

  • Unify every client and channel under a single login
  • Automate client invoicing and proof of delivery
  • White-label the platform as your own offering
Brands

Reach every screen that matters.

Connect with audiences across display, video, CTV, audio, and native—and see what's working.

  • Activate every format from one workspace
  • Reach audiences across approved media connections
  • Reach diaspora audiences through verified EON consumption
Performance marketers

Spend time on strategy, not screens.

Consolidate the busywork so you can focus on outcomes and optimization.

  • Control bid, budget, and pacing from one interface
  • Retarget warm prospects with your own pixel data
  • Optimize for revenue, not vanity metrics
Active
campaign live and pacing on target
Selected
audience locked for activation
Connected
reporting signals flowing into the dashboard
Media Console FAQ

Questions, answered.

What can I activate through the Media Console today?
Programmatic display, online video, Connected TV, streaming audio, native, and supported retargeting capabilities are available through the current Social Gear workflow. Exact inventory, formats, targeting, and market availability are shown during planning.
Will the Media Console support search, retail media, app advertising, and ChatGPT Ads?
These connections are on the Social Gear roadmap. Each will become available only after platform approval, API access, security and technical testing, and production certification. The dashboard will clearly label each connection as Live, Private beta, Planned, or Under evaluation.
Does Social Gear automatically buy across every connected platform?
No. Social Gear recommends eligible channels and inventory against the campaign brief, but permissions, pricing, budgets, approval, activation, and optimization remain governed by deterministic controls and the applicable platform rules.
Will metrics from every channel look the same?
Social Gear provides a normalized reporting framework, while preserving provider-specific metric definitions and attribution limitations. Reports identify the source, date range, and methodology of each metric.
Ready when you are

Connect everything. Then watch it compound.

Creator, media, LYKSTAGE video, and email capabilities in one platform → one login, one dashboard, one invoice, every result feeding the next.