How Proximus automates always-on campaigns across 2 languages, 10 formats, and 5,000+ ad variations

How Proximus automates always-on campaigns across 2 languages, 10 formats, and 5,000+ ad variations

20+
20+

Dynamic ads per month

Dynamic ads per month

5000
5000

Ad variations (eg: Black Friday)

Ad variations (eg: Black Friday)

Executive summary

Proximus, Belgium's largest provider of TV, internet, and mobile services, runs complex always-on campaigns that require constant updates, spanning up to 10 product offers, 2 languages, 2 channels, and 10 ad formats per cycle, each tailored to specific audience segments. Managing this manually meant significant repetitive work and slow deployment. By implementing the Cape Creative Automation solution, Proximus connected their ads directly to live product feeds, automated campaign creation across CM360, DV360, and Meta Ads Manager, and replaced hours of manual production with a single-click publishing workflow, while retaining full creative control.

Glowing 5G lettering over an aerial view of a Belgian city at dusk, with the Proximus symbol

Challenge

Proximus is Belgium's largest provider for TV, Internet, and mobile phones, spanning up to 10 product offers, 2 languages, 2 channels, and 10 ad formats per cycle, each tailored to specific audience segments.

Managing this manually meant significant repetitive work and slow deployment. Tailoring both their message and product offering to a granular audience setup was key.

Proximus managed complex always-on campaigns across various channels, necessitating frequent updates to creatives and targeting parameters. Each update involved up to 10 product offers spanning 2 languages, 2 channels, and 10 ad formats, each tailored to specific audience segments in the DSP. 

While this approach ensures timely and relevant messaging, it also entails significant repetitive work. Proximus wanted to streamline its display, social, and online video advertising processes to accelerate campaign deployment. 

They aimed to automate creative production and campaign execution while retaining control for final adjustments, ensuring error-free, on-brand ads seamlessly integrated with Google Marketing Platform and Meta for Business.

solution

With Cape Creative Automation, Proximus has reduced production costs of their creatives as well as replaced hours dedicated to repetitive tasks with quality work. 

The dynamic ads now connect to a content source feed, so when they select a product for their ads, the price or promotion and other product specs are automatically rendered. An integrated product selector ensures that this is a clear and easy process. 

With feeds that are updated every day, the ads only show in-stock products and up-to-date pricing.

Results

For Proximus, Cape.io has provided a solution in which their campaigns are manageable from a single platform, with automated campaign creation in CM360, DV360, and Meta Ads Manager.

Campaign updates can be planned and published with a single click, while the creative team has gained the freedom to design and tailor each ad manually with full control, based on our elaborate and template-based creative builder.

Proximus logo: purple proximus wordmark with the blue butterfly symbol replacing the x
Proximus

Telco

Headquarters

Brussels, Belgium

Company Size

Enterprise

Teams involved

In-house brand teams

Ad Ops teams

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We are very happy with Cape.ios tooling, as it saves us hours of manual labor, and we can now be more flexible when creating and publishing our campaigns.

We are very happy with Cape.ios tooling, as it saves us hours of manual labor, and we can now be more flexible when creating and publishing our campaigns.

We are very happy with Cape.ios tooling, as it saves us hours of manual labor, and we can now be more flexible when creating and publishing our campaigns.

We are very happy with Cape.ios tooling, as it saves us hours of manual labor, and we can now be more flexible when creating and publishing our campaigns.

Bram de Lausnay

Marketing Automation and Innovation Manager

Gallery

Campaign assets and creative outputs across channels and markets.

  • Proximus leaderboard: woman jumping with a keyboard, fastest internet with 2 months free
    Proximus half-page ad: woman jumping with a keyboard, fastest internet with 2 months free
    Proximus leaderboard: woman with a laptop, fastest internet with a 210 euro webpromo discount
    Proximus half-page ad: woman with a laptop and controller, 210 euro webpromo discount
    Proximus Pickx Sports ad: football and cycling on TV and tablet, Belgian and international sport
    Proximus rectangle ad: woman filming a concert, unlimited data at 34.99 euro for one year
    Proximus half-page ad: woman filming a concert, unlimited data at 34.99 euro for one year
    Proximus rectangle ad: man with headphones, 10 GB at 16.99 euro a month for one year
    Proximus half-page ad: man with headphones, 10 GB at 16.99 euro a month for one year
    Proximus skyscraper ad: man with headphones, 10 GB at 16.99 euro a month for one year
    Proximus 5G ad, vertical: Xiaomi 11T with a smartwatch gift at 9 euro on a mobile plan
    Proximus 5G ad, landscape: Xiaomi 11T with a smartwatch gift at 9 euro on a mobile plan
    Proximus 5G ad, rectangle: Xiaomi 11T with a smartwatch gift at 9 euro on a mobile plan
    Proximus 5G ad, square: Samsung Galaxy S21 FE at 9 euro on a mobile plan

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