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Ad-tech Hyperlocal Bidding & pacing

The right ad, to the right person, on the right block.

National ad tools waste local spend on the wrong audiences. We built a hyperlocal delivery platform — with neighbourhood-level segmentation, a bidding & pacing engine, and cross-surface delivery — so local businesses could finally spend with accountability.

Block-level
Geo targeting
Real-time
Bidding & pacing
Multi-surface
Web · Mobile · Connected
Cost-per-outcome
The Problem

Local businesses were paying national prices for wasted reach.

The tooling gap for hyperlocal advertising was real:

  • National ad platforms couldn't target below city-level cleanly, or charged premium CPMs for the privilege.
  • Local businesses (restaurants, salons, clinics, retailers) had no way to control which blocks their ad ran on.
  • Pacing was crude — budgets either burned out at noon or under-delivered by end-of-day.
  • Attribution was a black box — no way to tie ad spend to store-visits or bookings at a neighbourhood level.
  • Agencies managing many local advertisers had no multi-account view.
The Solution

An end-to-end hyperlocal delivery platform.

Segmentation at neighbourhood granularity, a bidding & pacing engine to hit budget goals cleanly, and delivery across every surface the audience uses.

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Neighbourhood segmentation

Location signals stitched into audience segments at block / pincode / catchment level.

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Bidding & pacing engine

Real-time bid decisioning + smooth pacing to hit budget goals — no more end-of-day under-spend or noon burnouts.

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Cross-surface delivery

Serves creatives across mobile, web and connected surfaces — with per-surface creative sizing.

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Frequency capping

Cap per user per day per creative — spend goes further, users don't feel harassed.

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Guided campaign setup

A wizard that walks a local business from "I want to advertise" to a launched campaign in under 10 minutes.

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Agency multi-account view

Agencies managing dozens of local advertisers get one console, roll-ups and per-client reports.

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Attribution & reporting

Impressions → clicks → outcomes, sliced by block, creative and time-of-day.

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Brand safety & fraud

Basic invalid-traffic filtering, per-domain allow / block lists, creative moderation.

Architecture

Deployed architecture

Ad request → bidder → decisioning → creative serve → event stream → analytics. Optimised for latency at the auction and throughput at the analytics pipeline.

Ad surfaces Mobile apps SDK / tag Web publishers JS tag Connected surfaces Kiosks · CTV · in-store Auction & Decisioning Bidder Low-latency auction Decisioning Geo + segment + creative Pacing · budget · caps Creative serve CDN-backed assets Event capture Impressions · clicks · outcomes Data Segment / audience store Geo · behaviour · pincode PostgreSQL Campaigns · budgets · users Event stream Kafka-style pipeline Analytics & Consoles Analytics warehouse Columnar · aggregations Advertiser console Setup wizard · live reports Agency console Multi-account · roll-ups Trust & safety Invalid-traffic filter · brand safety allow/block lists · creative moderation · abuse rate limits Real-time filters at bidder edge + async re-scoring in analytics Cloud & DevOps Autoscaled bidder pool · CDN for creatives · CI/CD · request tracing · latency SLOs · uptime + on-call · nightly warehouse loads
Ad surface
Auction / Decisioning
Data
Analytics / Safety
Console
Tech stack

Technologies used

Bidder & decisioning

Go / Node.js bidder Low-latency in-memory decisioning Pacing algorithms Frequency capping

Data pipeline

Event streaming Columnar analytics warehouse PostgreSQL (config) Redis (real-time state)

Consoles & SDKs

React / Next.js consoles JS + mobile SDKs CDN-served creatives

Cloud & ops

Autoscaled bidder pool CI/CD Latency SLOs + tracing Uptime + on-call
Screens shipped

Screens from the platform

app.hyperreach.io/campaigns/new Launch a campaign · 3 of 5 Guided setup · take 5 minutes · you can edit anything later Goal Audience 3Creative 4Budget 5Review Upload your creative Sizes we'll auto-generate: 1:1, 9:16, 4:5, 16:9. Bring the largest you have. Drop image or video or click to browse 30% OFF Today only · Delivery in 30 min CAFÉ BLUE · KORAMANGALA cafe-blue-diwali.jpg 1080 × 1080 · 184 KB · 4 sizes generated ✓ CALL TO ACTION Order now Get directions Call us LIVE PREVIEW 30% OFF Today only Café Blue Sponsored · 0.4 km Order now Mobile · in-feed Auto-generated 4 sizes
Web · Campaign setup wizard
5 steps · under 10 minutes from "I want to advertise" to live campaign, with real-time preview.
app.hyperreach.io/targeting Neighbourhood targeting · Café Blue Draw a radius, pick pincodes, or select blocks · exclude what you don't want Café Blue 560095 (in) 560034 (in) 560071 (out) 560102 (in) 560068 (in) Radius Pincodes Blocks Included Excluded Radius ESTIMATED REACH 62,400 Unique users · last 7d FORECAST · DAILY Impressions18k Clicks540 Store visits64 DAILY BUDGET ₹ 480 Auto-paced 07:00 → 22:00 Save targeting Excluded 1 pincode (competitor cluster)
Web · Block-level targeting
Include / exclude at block or pincode level, with live reach and store-visit forecast.
app.hyperreach.io/pacing Pacing · Café Blue · today SPENT₹ 312 DAILY CAP₹ 480 PACEOn track Hourly delivery · 07:00–22:00 now 22:00 Peak lunch windowAuto-boosted bids ✓ Smooth pacing active Projected end-of-day spend: ₹ 476 of ₹ 480 cap · no corrective action needed
Web · Pacing dashboard
Hourly budget burn vs. target pace, with automatic peak-hour bid boosts.
agency.hyperreach.io/clients Agency console · Bright Local Media 18 clients · ₹ 4.2L managed spend this month TOTAL SPEND₹ 4.2L AVG ROI4.6× NEEDS ATTENTION2 clients CLIENTSPENDROIPACESTATUS Café Blue₹ 28,4006.4×On trackHealthy Salon Nine₹ 14,2003.9×On trackHealthy Urban Dental₹ 9,8001.8×UnderpacingReview Green Leaf Grocers₹ 21,6005.1×On trackHealthy + 14 more clients One roll-up, per-client detail
Web · Agency console
All clients in one view — spend, ROI, pacing status, and per-client drill-down.
Adoption

Advertisers onboarded via guided setup

  • Individual local advertisers used the guided setup wizard to launch first campaigns in a single sitting.
  • Agencies were given a multi-account console with client-level reports and consolidated invoicing.
  • Pacing and frequency caps were tuned per vertical during rollout — different defaults for restaurants vs. clinics vs. retailers.
  • Trust & safety filters started conservative, then were loosened once traffic patterns stabilised.
Impact

Impact on the business

Wasted spend
Local relevance
Smooth
Budget delivery
Actionable
Per-block reporting

Local businesses reached the audiences that actually walk into their stores — with better cost-per-outcome than broad-targeted competitors. Agencies got a platform they could scale their client book on without more headcount.

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