Smartly Enhances Brand Pulse: The First Real-Time, Cross-Channel Solution for Brand Measurement and Optimization
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Smartly, the leading AI-powered advertising platform, today announced significant enhancements to Brand Pulse, the only real-time, cross-channel brand measurement and optimization solution in the market designed to solve one of digital advertising's toughest challenges: understanding what's working, where, and why, while the campaign is still live.
Measuring and optimizing upper-funnel brand campaigns has traditionally been fragmented and slow. Brands are too often left relying on outdated insights, incomplete reach and frequency data, and metrics that don't reflect true audience engagement across channels. Brand Pulse changes that by delivering real-time performance data across major platforms, including YouTube. Marketers can now confidently optimize their brand investments and clearly see the incremental reach each platform - including YouTube - delivers.
Brand Pulse empowers marketers with:
Real-Time Deduplicated Reach Insights
Evaluate true, deduplicated audience size and cost per unique user across channels. Adjust media mix dynamically to maximize visibility.
Cross-Channel Frequency Controls
Monitor exposure in real-time across platforms. Avoid ad waste and oversaturation that leads to declining returns.
Attentive Audience Optimization
Go beyond impressions served. With customizable attention metrics, like time viewed or active engagement, marketers can now define what attention means to their brand and automatically optimize toward high-value, engaged audiences across channels.
"With Brand Pulse, we could make in-flight adjustments based on real-time data," said Sander van Strien, Social Advertising Lead at Samsung. "We reallocated budgets, refined our media mix, and, importantly, we were able to eliminate frequency wastage entirely. This year, we hit our target perfectly, something we hadn't been able to achieve before."
Smartly's Brand Pulse is already driving impact for global brands across America, EMEA, and APAC. By enabling media and brand teams to see and shape campaign outcomes in real time, Brand Pulse turns upper-funnel investment into a strategic growth engine.
'Brand investment is essential, but without real-time insight, marketers are forced to operate in the dark reacting after the moment has passed,' said Laura Desmond, CEO of Smartly. 'Brand Pulse brings precision to the upper funnel, delivering immediate, cross-channel visibility into reach, frequency, and attention so brands can optimize while the campaign is still in motion, not in hindsight.'
With the addition of YouTube, advertisers can now access a truly unified view of brand performance across Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok, and Pinterest, empowering teams to make smarter, faster decisions with a holistic, cross-platform perspective.
Brand Pulse is available now. To learn more, visit: https://www.smartly.io/product-features/brand-pulse
About Smartly
Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company ranked as the leader in The Forrester Wave™: Creative Advertising Technologies. Our platform unifies creative and media to produce intelligent creative—dynamic, data-driven image and video assets optimized for seamless activation across channels. Brands manage, optimize, and scale high-performance campaigns in one place, achieving PwC-validated results, including a 5.5x return on ad spend (ROAS) and 42 minutes saved every hour.
We support 700+ brands and manage over $6 billion in ad spend globally. With strategic partnerships across major media platforms—including Amazon, Google, Meta, Pinterest, Reddit, Snap, and TikTok—we help Fortune 500 companies deliver relevant advertising at speed and scale. Backed by deep media and creative expertise and best-in-class customer support, we empower brands to maximize performance and drive real business outcomes. Visit Smartly.io to learn more.
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