Home / Solutions / Brand Lift

Real-time Brand Lift
Optimisation.

Live Brand Lift data meets PIQ quality signals inside sell-side optimised PMPs, steering every bid towards the placements moving your brand. Don’t just measure your brand campaigns; increase their performance.

Trusted by planning & buying teams at

Mediaplus · House of Communication
Goodstuff
the7stars
dentsu
OMD
WPP
Clearpay
Elida Beauty
VO5
EE
NOW TV
B&Q
Costcutter
Abel & Cole
Mars Wrigley
Warner Bros
GambleAware

The solution

Brand Lift shouldn’t mean
‘unoptimised’ and ‘unmeasurable.’

Stop treating Brand Lift as an end-of-campaign study and only optimising for proxies like clicks and viewability.

Brand Lift studies produce real-time data, and when combined with PIQ's quality signals in a sell-side optimised PMP, you can optimise towards uplift itself, driving higher brand lift at a lower cost per lifted user.

How Picnic's custom algorithms turn campaigns into lift:

Live Campaign Data PIQ data
Custom bidding algorithm

Increased Brand Lift

The process

What happens during your campaign.

Rich, real-time data

Brand Lift data is combined with PIQ’s 100+ quality signals, so PIQ learns which environments drive the strongest uplift.

Sell-side optimised PMPs

Picnic’s model and data sit in a container within the PMP, so only the most effective impressions reach your DSP.

Real-time optimisation

Brand Lift data feeds back into Picnic’s algorithm continuously, improving the PMP’s performance as it runs.

The outcome

KPIs you can optimise in real-time.

Brand Lift Optimisation

Measured uplift versus a matched control group.

Ad recallAwarenessConsiderationPurchase intent

Cost Per Lifted User

The media cost to move one consumer to a lifted state on your chosen brand metric.

Cost efficiencyLifted users

Decisions made closer to the impression are smarter from the start.

Placement-level precision

Every bid request is matched to a Picnic Placement ID (PIQPID) and scored on the signals behind it, so lift is attributed to the placement that earned it, not the domain it sat on.

Increased lift from the same budget

Live lift results identify the placements shifting perception, and delivery moves towards them mid-campaign, so the same budget returns more lift.

Simpler activation

One PMP in the DSP you already use. Lift measurement and bidding decisions run behind the scenes.

Lower cost per lifted user

A Deal ID and floor price are added only to impressions worth buying, so budget stops funding placements that will not move your brand metric and each lifted user costs less.

Low-quality placements drove 2.3% negative brand sentiment. High-quality placements lifted it 0.7%.

Read case study

Quality drives brand outcomes.

Clearpay Back to School campaign
Brand Lift

Back to School

Identical creative ran across two PIQ-scored inventory sets with Goodstuff. Brand consideration landed higher on the high-quality set, with CTR and viewability held steady.

+2.7ptbrand consideration lift on high-PIQ inventory
EE Full Fibre campaign
Brand Lift

Full Fibre

Messaging-led creative ran across quality inventory, with the brand-perception lift independently measured by a VisualDNA study.

Winner · Most Effective Messaging Campaign · EMMA 2021
138%uplift in brand perception
GambleAware Tap Out campaign
Brand Lift

Tap Out, Take a Moment

Social-inspired engagement features, emoji reactions and polls, drove recall, measured by a VisualDNA study.

Winner · Most Effective Mobile Campaign · EDMA 2021
129%uplift in messaging recall
NOW TV Christmas campaign
Brand Lift

Christmas

AI-optimised formats built from social assets lifted perception of value streaming, measured by a CINT brand study.

20.3%brand uplift amongst 20–34 year olds

Partners

Built with best-in-class partners

Our bidding decisions run inside the SSPs’ containers, with brand lift measured by independent research partners.

Enquire about real-time Brand Lift optimisation.

Tell us where to reach you and the team will come back within one working day.