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AdStrategy

Real-time ad detection and competitive intelligence.

AdStrategy detects every commercial impression that traverses the monitored signal — converging audio fingerprinting and computer vision into a structured inventory of advertiser, brand, spot, station, daypart and competitive context, at the resolution the ad-sales operation actually negotiates against.

Pilot / proof-of-concept — early market validation underway.

Who it's for

For the people who sell and defend the inventory.

VP / Director of Ad Sales

Conquest you can cite.

Competitive spend and conquest opportunities you can take into the room directly — ranked and dollar-valued.

Chief Revenue Officer

Defend and grow share.

Share-of-voice and revenue defense across markets, on one competitive landscape.

Ad Operations

Spot-level proof.

Inventory at the spot level with creative proof — searchable, with video evidence.

What it is

Every ad on every monitored channel.

AdStrategy monitors every competitor channel and stream in a market — detecting, identifying, logging, analyzing and reporting on every ad: who ran it, where, when, how often and at what estimated spend. A self-improving fingerprint library matches known ads at near-zero incremental compute, while multimodal neural networks identify new creatives, capturing and transcoding every one into a searchable gallery with video proof.

On top of detection sits the Opportunity Engine: a 0–100 Opportunity Score, a "Not On Our Air" conquest list, dollar-valued spend estimates, and auto-generated sales briefs and morning briefings. AdStrategy Local (ASL) carries the same detection to the station edge for facilities that can’t backhaul the full signal — handling the majority of detections at the edge.

Cloud hub + ASL edgeEdge handles the majority of detections at the edge
Self-improving libraryDeclining marginal cost as it learns
Ranked, dollar-valued conquestBeyond monitoring — winnability-scored
Scales 10 → 250 marketsAdd or drop channels and markets instantly
Capabilities

Detection through to the sales brief.

A complete competitive-advertising pipeline — detect, identify, value, and arm the sales conversation.

01

Detect & identify every ad

Every commercial on every monitored channel, resolved to advertiser, brand, product and category.

Audio fingerprintComputer visionOCR
02

Searchable creative gallery

Every creative captured, transcoded and indexed — with video proof and auto descriptive tags.

Video proofAuto-tags
03

Opportunity Engine

0–100 Opportunity Score, a "Not On Our Air" conquest list, dollar-valued spend and auto-generated sales briefs.

Conquest list$ spendSales briefs
04

Share-of-voice analytics

Share-of-voice, trend and category analytics with category heat maps and rate-card simulation.

SOVHeat mapsRate-card sim
05

New-advertiser alerts

First-run and new-advertiser alerts the moment an unfamiliar creative hits competitive air.

First-runNew advertiser
06

VelaIQ

A natural-language console over the entire competitive-ad inventory — ask in plain English, get the answer with proof.

Natural-languagePDF / CSV

Ratings integration (Nielsen LPM, Comscore) and demographic targeting infer audience from 15+ semantic tags per ad, matching program-to-demo affinity for the sales story.

How detection works

Four signal dimensions on every frame.

A multi-stage detection pipeline fuses four dimensions of every sampled frame into one structured, competitive ad inventory.

10→250
Markets, scalable on demand
Multi-stage
Detection pipeline
20+
Named reports
15+
Semantic tags per ad
Audio
  • Fingerprint matching
  • Spectral analysis
  • Speech-to-text (ASR)
Video
  • Computer vision
  • OCR
  • Perceptual hash & image capture
Metadata
  • Channel / timestamp / daypart
  • Descriptive tags
  • EPG & ratings
Temporal
  • Semantic matching
  • Cross-signal correlation
  • Synthesis across time
Protocol coverage

Universal input.

Detection runs on whatever the market broadcasts — broadcast, streaming, cable and satellite alike.

Broadcast
ATSC 1.0ATSC 3.0OTA
Streaming
HLSOTTFASTDASHCMAF
Cable & satellite
CableSatellitexVODMPEG-TS
Codecs
H.264H.265AV1VP9MPEG-2
The operator interface

The Intelligence Portal.

Named surfaces from detection through to the sales conversation.

Overview

Command Center

Live detection volume, market status and the daily Morning Briefing.

Profile

Advertiser Intelligence

Per-advertiser spend, creatives and category over time.

Compete

Competitive Landscape

Share-of-voice and category heat maps across the market.

Proof

Creative Gallery

Searchable creatives with video proof and descriptive tags.

Report

Reports Center

20+ named reports — conquest, upsell, retention, daypart and more.

Query

VelaIQ Console

Natural-language queries across the competitive ad inventory.

Deployment & integrations

Cloud hub with an edge variant.

Deployment

A cloud Inference Hub for heavy analysis, with an on-prem ASL node where backhaul isn’t practical.

ASL edge appliance — turnkey Linux; live HLS/OTA/ATSC/IPTV ingest; CPU-bound fingerprint match, no GPU.
Vela Inference Hub — cloud GPU; multimodal analysis of unknown creatives; master fingerprint library.
Containerized — Docker / Kubernetes, universal input.
Edge autonomy — handles the majority of detections at the edge.

Integrations

Wired into the systems ad sales already runs on.

Ratings — Nielsen LPM, Comscore feeds.
EPG & rate card — context and rate-card simulation.
AsRun + SCTE-35/104 — reconciliation against what aired.
SSO + REST APIs — AD/OKTA; CRM-ready and Excel exports.
How it works

Detect. Identify. Turn into pipeline.

AdStrategy moves from raw signal to a ranked, dollar-valued conquest pipeline — the stage that arms the sales conversation.

Detect

Every ad

Every commercial on every monitored channel.

Identify & value

Advertiser & spend

Brand, category and estimated spend.

Activate

Conquest pipeline

Ranked, dollar-valued, brief-ready.

Status

In pilot.

In pilot, with early market validation underway across competitive markets.

Status pilot

Pilot / proof-of-concept, with early market validation underway across competitive markets.

Architecture

Vela-owned models, library and detection pipeline — with a self-improving fingerprint library that lowers marginal cost over time.

Bring us a feed

See AdStrategy on your market.

Engagements start with a signal. Tell us the market and the competitors that matter and we run them through the audit pipeline — you see exactly what AdStrategy detects, before any commercial conversation.

01

Market scoping

02

Detection audit

03

Sales-team review

04

Deployment scoping

Start with a signal →

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