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Bridging the In-Store Revenue Gap with Programmatic DOOH

Trillboards Team12 min read
Bridging the In-Store Revenue Gap with Programmatic DOOH

The $196.7 Billion Retail Media Opportunity (and the 5% Problem)

For decades, the retail industry has poured billions of dollars into optimizing e-commerce platforms, building sophisticated algorithms to track every mouse click, cart abandonment, and digital conversion. Meanwhile, the physical store environment,the very foundation of global commerce,has largely been treated as a static, offline space. This historical oversight has created an environment ripe for disruption. Physical retail is undergoing a massive digital transformation, yet a glaring disconnect remains between where sales happen and where media budgets are spent.

Consider the sheer volume of foot traffic that passes through grocery aisles, pharmacy checkout lines, and big-box retailers every single day. These shoppers are highly engaged, wallet-in-hand, and actively making purchasing decisions. Despite physical stores driving over 83% of US retail sales, market researcher Omdia estimates that only 5% of retail media revenue originates from brick-and-mortar locations. This means that 95% of retail media investments are fiercely competing for less than 17% of total retail transactions, driving up digital Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) while leaving the most potent point of conversion drastically under-monetized.

This massive disparity is what industry experts call the "in-store revenue gap." It represents billions of dollars in untapped potential, sitting dormant in the aisles of supermarkets, convenience stores, and shopping malls worldwide.

Yet, the scale of the opportunity is absolutely staggering for those who can bridge this divide. Retailers who are early adopters of in-store digital monetization are already seeing transformative impacts on their bottom lines.

According to eMarketer, US retail media ad spend is projected to reach $71 billion, while WARC forecasts global spending to hit an astonishing $196.7 billion. These numbers aren't just theoretical projections; they represent a fundamental shift in how Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands and endemic advertisers are reallocating their traditional trade marketing and television budgets toward high-accountability retail environments.

To capture these massive budgets, retailers are actively transforming physical screens into high-margin programmatic assets. Gone are the days of static cardboard endcaps and printed aisle violators that take weeks to deploy and offer zero performance data. Today's retail environment demands agility.

By leveraging in-store retail media, property owners and retailers can tap into a completely new, high-margin revenue stream. This isn't just about selling products on shelves anymore; it is about monetizing the very attention of the shoppers walking down the aisles.

However, unlocking this revenue requires more than just hanging a screen on a wall; it requires sophisticated programmatic infrastructure. A screen without connectivity, audience measurement, and automated bidding capabilities is simply a digital poster, incapable of attracting modern media buyers.

This is where the convergence of programmatic DOOH revenue and real-time data integration becomes the ultimate catalyst for growth. By marrying the physical presence of digital signage with the algorithmic efficiency of programmatic advertising, retailers can finally offer brands the exact same targeting, measurement, and attribution capabilities they have come to expect from digital giants like Amazon and Google.


The In-Store Revenue Gap: Why Brick-and-Mortar Lags Behind

To understand how to move forward, we must first understand the structural bottlenecks that have held the industry back. Historically, monetizing physical retail screens has been plagued by fragmentation, manual sales processes, and a severe lack of standardized measurement. Network operators would spend countless hours compiling PDF media kits, negotiating via email, and manually scheduling content on USB drives or rudimentary Content Management Systems (CMS).

Unlike digital advertising, where impressions and clicks are tracked in real-time, physical retail has struggled to prove the exact value of an in-store ad exposure. If a brand ran a month-long campaign on a grocery store display, the only metric of success was a broad, often inaccurate estimate of monthly store footfall.

Advertisers and agency media buyers planning, pricing, and proving out-of-home buys demand the same level of accountability they get from online channels. They need to know exactly how many people saw the ad, what the demographic breakdown of that audience was, and whether that exposure directly influenced a sale.

Without unified standards, retailers have been forced to rely on direct sales teams, resulting in low fill rates and unsold inventory. Maintaining a dedicated direct sales force is incredibly expensive, and even the best teams struggle to sell 100% of a network's available screen time, leaving valuable ad slots playing generic store content or going completely dark.

When a media buyer cannot compare a digital billboard in a grocery store to a banner ad on a retail website using the same metrics, they will inevitably default to the digital banner. Measurement fragmentation has historically hindered in-store media buying, keeping major programmatic budgets at bay. Brands want to know their Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) with surgical precision, and physical retail's reliance on estimated monthly foot traffic simply doesn't cut it anymore.

However, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and IAB Europe recently established the In-Store Retail Media Definitions and Measurement Standards. This was a watershed moment for the industry, finally providing a common language and a unified set of rules for how in-store audiences should be quantified, verified, and sold.

As detailed in their best-in-class approach (https://www.iabuk.com/member-content/iab-store-retail-media-standards-advertimas-best-class-approach), this framework sets "Opportunity to See" (OTS) as the in-store equivalent to digital impressions across five distinct retail zones. These zones,ranging from the store exterior and entrance to the aisles, point of sale, and exit,each represent a different psychological state of the shopper, allowing advertisers to tailor their messaging based on where the consumer is in their physical journey.

Utilizing these standards, retailers can transition from tight 3–5% grocery margins to media-level margins of up to 70%. Selling a box of cereal yields pennies on the dollar; selling the digital ad space right next to that box of cereal yields pure profit.

This establishes physical aisles as powerful, closed-loop performance channels that media buyers can trust. By adopting these standardized measurement frameworks, brick-and-mortar retailers are finally speaking the language of Madison Avenue, paving the way for a massive influx of programmatic capital.


POS Data Integration DOOH: The Holy Grail of Retail Media

While standardized measurement gets retail media networks a seat at the table, data integration is what actually wins the budgets. To truly close the in-store revenue gap, screens must be intelligent, context-aware, and directly tied to store performance. A screen playing a generic loop of advertisements regardless of what is happening in the store is a missed opportunity.

Imagine an advertiser paying premium rates to promote a new flavor of sparkling water, only for a shopper to see the ad, walk to the cooler, and find the product completely sold out. Integrating real-time Point-of-Sale (POS) and inventory data ensures ads only run for in-stock items, preventing wasted ad spend. This creates a frictionless experience for the consumer and guarantees that the advertiser's budget is actively driving convertible demand.

This is the core concept behind POS data integration DOOH, a strategy that aligns advertising demand with actual product availability. By building API bridges between the digital signage network and the retailer's inventory management system, networks can create automated, rules-based advertising environments.

As highlighted by Doohlabs (https://www.doohlabs.com/post/the-role-of-data-in-in-store-retail-media), utilizing aggregated POS data combined with programmatic DOOH allows brands to dynamically bid on physical screens through Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs). This means brands can adjust their bidding strategies on the fly based on real-world retail conditions, weather patterns, and immediate sales velocity.

For example, if a convenience store's POS system detects a spike in energy drink sales during the afternoon, the digital signage can automatically trigger programmatic bids for energy drink brands. This creates a highly competitive auction environment where brands like Red Bull, Monster, and Celsius can outbid each other in real-time to capture the attention of a highly motivated, mid-afternoon demographic.

Conversely, the system is smart enough to protect the advertiser's budget when supply chain issues arise. If a specific brand of chips goes out of stock, the POS integration instantly halts the ad campaign, shifting the screen's inventory to the next highest bidder. This ensures the retailer maximizes the yield of the screen while providing a brand-safe, high-utility environment for the media buyer.

This level of dynamic, inventory-aware bidding is what makes retail media networks 2026 so incredibly powerful. It transforms the physical store from a passive distribution center into an active, algorithmic marketplace.

Adtech provider Osmos notes (https://www.osmos.ai/blog/retail-instore-media-digital-screens-2026) that programmatic buying enables retailers to seamlessly monetize unsold screen inventory alongside direct deals. By utilizing a unified auction, retailers can guarantee delivery for their direct-sold VIP brand partners while allowing programmatic demand to fill the remaining gaps, pushing fill rates toward 100%.

Ultimately, this closed-loop attribution model proves to advertisers that their in-store campaigns are directly driving register rings. When a brand can look at a dashboard and see that an ad played at 2:00 PM resulted in a measurable sales lift at 2:05 PM at the exact same location, the value proposition of in-store retail media becomes undeniable.


Monetizing Physical Retail Screens with Trillboards

The theoretical benefits of retail media are clear, but the practical execution has traditionally been a nightmare for operators. For DOOH network operators seeking programmatic demand and fill rate optimization, building this infrastructure from scratch is prohibitively expensive. Developing a custom ad server, integrating with multiple Demand-Side Platforms, and building audience measurement algorithms requires millions of dollars in upfront capital and years of engineering time.

Trillboards operates as a screen aggregator and audience measurement platform for digital signage and DOOH publishers. We remove the technical friction and financial barriers that have historically prevented independent retailers and property groups from entering the retail media space.

Unlike legacy digital signage software companies that charge hefty monthly licensing fees regardless of whether your screens are actually making money, we provide free screen-management and ad-serving software, meaning publishers pay $0/screen/month to use the platform. This fundamentally changes the unit economics of deploying a screen network, allowing operators to scale their hardware footprint without being penalized by compounding software overhead.

Trillboards works with SSP and exchange partners to connect venue screens to advertising demand. We act as the critical middleware that translates the physical presence of your screens into the standardized OpenRTB protocols that global media buyers use to execute their campaigns.

Our platform monetizes entirely through ad demand, not publisher fees, ensuring our incentives are perfectly aligned with venue owners. If your screens aren't generating revenue, neither are we. This partnership model fosters a collaborative environment focused entirely on yield optimization and network growth.

Key Insight: Programmatic ad revenue is split 60/40 in the publisher's favor: the venue/publisher keeps 60%, Trillboards keeps 40%.

This transparent revenue model allows property management companies, retail media networks, and independent venue owners to maximize their earnings without upfront software costs. There are no hidden integration fees, no arbitrary data processing charges, and no complex licensing tiers to navigate.

Whether you are operating a massive grocery chain or a single location, you can learn more about maximizing your earnings in our comprehensive /guides/convenience-store-digital-signage-income/ and our broader /guides/ hub. These resources provide step-by-step blueprints for transforming passive real estate into active profit centers, covering everything from hardware selection to optimal screen placement psychology.

Our scale is unmatched in the industry, providing buyers with massive reach and publishers with robust demand. Because we aggregate inventory globally, we can offer DSPs the kind of massive, standardized scale they require to execute multi-million dollar omnichannel campaigns.

There are 1,154,000+ screens reachable through Trillboards and 29,000+ screens registered on our own network. This density ensures that when an advertiser wants to target a specific demographic in a specific context, our network has the necessary footprint to deliver.

This expansive footprint spans 39 countries, 3,237 distinct cities, and covers 38 venue categories under the IAB OpenOOH taxonomy. From urban pharmacies in London to sprawling shopping malls in Dubai, Trillboards provides the universal infrastructure for the future of physical retail monetization.


Real-Time Audience Intelligence and Data Practices

In the modern programmatic ecosystem, inventory without data is practically worthless. To attract premium programmatic DOOH revenue, you must provide buyers with granular, real-time audience intelligence. Advertisers are no longer satisfied with static, historical estimates; they demand to know exactly who is standing in front of the screen at the exact moment their ad is served.

Data buyers and measurement teams licensing measured attention and audience data require precise, verifiable metrics. They need to validate that their media spend is reaching the intended target audience and that the audience is actually paying attention to the creative.

To achieve this, screens measure the people and devices near them. Utilizing advanced edge-computing hardware, these screens process environmental data in real-time, functioning as highly sophisticated, privacy-compliant IoT sensors.

A screen keeps a record for each person its camera detects: estimated age range, gender, dominant emotion, dwell time and time spent looking at the screen. This attention-tracking capability is revolutionary, allowing advertisers to move beyond mere "impressions" and start buying guaranteed "attention seconds," a metric that correlates much more strongly with brand recall and purchase intent.

On the full sensing profile it also computes a face-identity template (a vector of 512 numbers) that Trillboards uses to recognise the same person across screens and days, and Trillboards links each person to the device keys of the phones seen with them and to mobile advertising IDs. It is crucial to note that this 512-number vector is a mathematical representation, not a photograph; it cannot be reverse-engineered into a human face, ensuring total compliance with stringent global privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA while still providing powerful cross-screen attribution.

Selected camera frames go to a cloud model (Google Vertex AI) that estimates ethnicity, age band, gender, social composition, purchase-intent stage, activity, attire, carried items, lifestyle segments and mood. This deep contextual analysis allows a DSP to understand, for instance, that the audience currently consists of "stressed parents carrying shopping baskets in the late afternoon," triggering a highly relevant ad for a quick, easy-to-prepare family dinner solution.

Trillboards keeps those frames for 400 days, and the frames captured between 5 May and 21 June 2026 are kept as a model-evaluation set with no scheduled deletion. This rigorous data retention and evaluation protocol allows our machine learning engineers to continuously refine and audit the accuracy of our computer vision models, ensuring our publishers are always providing buyers with the highest fidelity data possible.

Speech is transcribed on the device and Trillboards stores the transcript. This allows for advanced contextual targeting based on ambient keywords and environmental context without compromising personal privacy. No video or audio recording is stored or transmitted. All heavy processing happens at the edge, meaning only anonymized metadata and transcripts ever leave the physical store environment.

Screens send Trillboards the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and local-network identifiers nearby phones broadcast, and their GPS position; Trillboards turns radio and GPS sensing on by default. This multi-modal sensing approach combines visual attention metrics with deterministic mobile signals, creating the most comprehensive audience profile available in the physical world.

Bid requests carry the screen's IP address, location and live audience measurements. When an ad slot opens up, this rich data payload is broadcast out to the programmatic ecosystem in milliseconds, allowing algorithms to evaluate the exact value of that specific audience at that specific moment. Call the companies that receive bid requests DOOH exchanges and demand-side platforms. These platforms ingest our data and match it against the targeting parameters set by global media agencies.

Trillboards sells and shares audience measurement and location data with its data partners, including 375ai and Intuizi. By syndicating this data, we create additional value streams and ensure that Trillboards' audience segments become standardized currencies within the broader ad-tech ecosystem.

This robust data pipeline is why we have seen 192 IAB audience segments observed in live impressions in a trailing 30-day window. This diversity of data proves that physical retail environments are not monolithic; they are dynamic, ever-changing hubs of highly specific consumer segments.

Furthermore, we have 4,000+ screens that measured their audience by camera or nearby-phone radio in a single day (Trillboards sensing census), allowing buyers to target those signals as segtax=600 audience segments. This massive daily census provides the liquidity and scale necessary for DSPs to confidently execute hyper-targeted, data-driven DOOH campaigns.


Retail Media Networks 2026: The Programmatic Infrastructure

For CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and Heads of Ad Operations, the technical implementation of an in-store retail media network is the primary hurdle. Scaling a network from 10 screens to 10,000 screens introduces massive complexities regarding device management, ad delivery latency, and programmatic protocol compliance.

Media enterprises and large publisher networks managing 100+ screens need enterprise-grade, API-first architecture. They cannot rely on consumer-grade digital signage tools that require manual intervention; they need systems that integrate seamlessly into their existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and data lake environments.

Trillboards provides OpenRTB 2.6 compatibility for screen inventory and audience signals shared with programmatic partners. The adoption of OpenRTB 2.6 is critical, as it supports advanced features like pod bidding, which allows a digital signage loop to be auctioned off as a continuous block of ad slots, maximizing yield and ensuring competitive separation between rival brands.

Our infrastructure includes a Google Ad Manager (GAM) integration with IVT-compliant VAST tags and OpenOOH venue taxonomy. This allows publishers who already use GAM for their web and mobile inventory to seamlessly unify their physical screens into the same dashboard, creating a truly omnichannel ad operations workflow.

To ensure brand safety and compliance, we execute a rigorous 14-check OpenRTB 2.6 supply-chain validation runbook (sellers.json, ads.txt, schain) on every transaction. In an era where ad fraud and spoofed inventory cost advertisers billions, this cryptographic validation guarantees to buyers that they are purchasing legitimate, premium retail media inventory directly from the authorized publisher.

This commitment to quality is reflected in the 261,378 creative-level classifications performed across 44 IAB Content Taxonomy top-level categories. We automatically scan and categorize every piece of creative that flows through our pipes, ensuring that a family-friendly grocery store never accidentally displays an age-restricted or contextually inappropriate advertisement.

We also utilize the OM SDK (Open Measurement) for MRC-compliant ad verification, giving buyers absolute confidence in their impression data. By integrating the exact same verification standards used in mobile and CTV advertising, we eliminate the historical skepticism surrounding DOOH measurement.

For developers, our Partner SDK (@trillboards/ads-sdk) serves as programmatic infrastructure-as-a-service for TypeScript, React, React Native, Flutter, CTV, and server-side applications. We have abstracted away the immense complexity of the OpenRTB protocol into a clean, modern developer experience.

Digital signage software companies and CTV OEMs can easily add ad monetization via this SDK, turning any connected display into a revenue-generating asset. With just a few lines of code, a developer building a custom kiosk application can instantly tap into global programmatic demand.

AI agents and the developers who build buying agents can leverage our MCP server at https://api.trillboards.com/mcp: an AdCP sales agent an AI agent can plan and buy through. As artificial intelligence begins to automate media planning, our Model Context Protocol server allows an AI to query our network, analyze audience densities, and autonomously execute media buys based on natural language prompts from a human media planner.

For custom integrations, our OpenAPI reference at https://api.trillboards.com/docs provides a full REST API for device, audience, venue, webhook, and analytics management. This gives enterprise engineering teams the ultimate flexibility to build custom dashboards, automate their billing workflows, and deeply embed Trillboards' capabilities into their proprietary retail tech stacks.


Innovative Applications: Vending, Kiosks, and Beyond

The application of monetizing physical retail screens extends far beyond traditional wall-mounted displays in grocery aisles. While endcaps and checkout screens are incredibly lucrative, the definition of a "retail media network" is rapidly expanding to include entirely new categories of connected hardware.

Smart retail environments are embedding screens into functional hardware, creating highly engaging, utility-driven ad experiences. When a screen provides a tangible service to the consumer, the ad experience feels native and non-intrusive, leading to significantly higher attention metrics and brand recall.

This is particularly effective, as JUUCE demonstrates with their portable phone charger rental kiosks with digital signage in stadiums, festivals, malls and high-traffic US venues. A consumer with a dying phone battery is highly motivated to approach the kiosk. While they are navigating the rental process or waiting for their device to charge, they are a captive, highly attentive audience for the programmatic ads displayed on the kiosk's integrated screen. By providing a necessary service (phone charging) while simultaneously serving programmatic ads, these kiosks capture extended dwell times and deep audience attention.

Similarly, automated retail is becoming a massive driver of programmatic DOOH revenue. The traditional vending machine is undergoing a renaissance, evolving from a simple mechanical dispenser into a highly connected, data-rich retail node. This trend is accelerating, as VapeTM demonstrates with their smart vending machines with digital displays and advertising screens, offering operators significant monthly ad revenue per machine. In many cases, the high-margin advertising revenue generated by these screens can rival or even eclipse the profit margins of the physical products being vended.

These innovative form factors prove that any physical location with foot traffic can become a profitable node in a retail media network. Whether it is a smart cooler door in a pharmacy, a self-checkout kiosk in a hardware store, or an interactive wayfinding directory in a shopping mall, the monetization principles remain exactly the same.

By utilizing Trillboards' webhook-driven event architecture, operators of these smart machines receive real-time notifications for device status, impressions, payouts, and audience spikes. This allows operators managing thousands of distributed, unattended machines to maintain complete operational visibility, ensuring that their hardware is always online, always serving ads, and always generating revenue.


Actionable Steps to Launch Your In-Store Retail Media Network

If you are a retailer, property manager, or network operator looking to bridge the in-store revenue gap, the path forward requires a strategic, data-first approach. The days of simply hanging a television on a wall and hoping for ad revenue are over; success in the modern era requires treating your physical footprint as a sophisticated digital product.

As outlined in comprehensive industry guides (https://techbridgegs.com/the-complete-guide-to-retail-media-in-2026/), the technology to monetize physical spaces is now fully mature and ready for deployment. The barrier to entry has never been lower, but the cost of inaction has never been higher.

Here are the critical steps to launch and scale your network:

1. Audit Your Physical Footprint and Screen Potential

Before purchasing a single piece of hardware, you must conduct a rigorous spatial analysis of your venues. Identify high-dwell-time areas within your venues where screens can be naturally integrated without disrupting the customer experience. You want to place screens in areas where shoppers are naturally pausing, waiting, or actively making comparative product decisions.

Endcaps, checkout aisles, waiting areas, and entrance foyers are prime locations for capturing shopper attention. A screen at the entrance can drive broad brand awareness, while a screen directly at the point of sale is perfect for driving impulse purchases and loyalty program sign-ups.

Evaluate the connectivity and power requirements for these locations to ensure seamless playback and real-time data transmission. A screen that constantly buffers or drops its internet connection will fail to serve programmatic ads and will actively harm the shopper experience. Ensure you have robust commercial-grade Wi-Fi or hardwired ethernet, alongside reliable power sources.

2. Implement Real-Time Audience Sensing

Do not rely on static foot traffic estimates; advertisers demand dynamic, real-time audience intelligence. If you cannot prove exactly who was in front of your screen when an ad played, you will be relegated to the lowest tiers of programmatic CPMs.

Deploy screens equipped with camera and radio sensing capabilities to capture dwell time, demographics, and attention metrics. Modern System-on-Chip (SoC) displays and dedicated media players often come with these capabilities built-in or easily attachable via USB, allowing you to turn your network into a massive array of privacy-compliant IoT sensors.

Ensure your sensing hardware is fully integrated with your ad-serving software to pass these live audience measurements in your bid requests. This is the critical step that transforms your inventory from "blind" to "data-enriched," instantly making it exponentially more valuable to DSPs.

3. Integrate POS and Inventory Data

Connect your digital signage CMS directly to your store's inventory management and POS systems. This is the bridge between the physical reality of your store shelves and the digital reality of your ad network. Work with your IT department to establish secure API connections that can query inventory levels in near real-time.

Create rules-based triggers that automatically pause campaigns for out-of-stock items and increase bid floors for high-margin, overstocked products. If you have a surplus of a specific perishable good, your retail media network should automatically adjust its pricing to encourage brands to advertise that specific product, helping you clear inventory and reduce shrink.

This integration is the defining feature that elevates standard digital signage into a true in-store retail media network. It proves to advertisers that your network is a true performance marketing channel, not just a brand awareness tool.

4. Connect to Programmatic Demand via Trillboards

Once your hardware is deployed and your data pipelines are established, it is time to turn on the revenue. Onboard your screens to the Trillboards platform to instantly connect with SSP and exchange partners. Our streamlined onboarding process allows you to map your screens to the correct OpenOOH venue taxonomies, ensuring buyers know exactly what context they are purchasing.

Utilize our published floor CPMs for every audience at /pricing/, and allow buyers to use the planner at /plan/. Transparency is key to attracting premium buyers; by making your pricing and inventory availability easily accessible, you reduce the friction of the media buying process.

Provide deal IDs for a buyer's own DSP, and direct direct advertisers to sign-up at /ads/auth. This hybrid approach allows you to capture automated programmatic revenue while still facilitating highly customized, direct-sold Private Marketplace (PMP) deals with your most important brand partners.

5. Leverage Developer Tools for Custom Workflows

As your network scales from dozens of screens to thousands, manual management becomes impossible. Utilize Trillboards' three API tiers to build custom reporting and venue intelligence dashboards. By pulling data directly from our APIs, your engineering team can build proprietary interfaces tailored exactly to your business operations.

Start with the Basic tier (200/min), scale to the Developer tier (1K/min, venue intelligence), and upgrade to Enterprise (5K/min, raw exports, SLA) as your network grows. This scalable architecture ensures that our infrastructure grows in lockstep with your business requirements.

Use our webhook-driven event architecture to automate your billing, alerting, and network maintenance workflows. If a screen goes offline, a webhook can automatically generate a support ticket in your IT system. If a specific campaign hits its budget cap, a webhook can automatically notify your accounting department to generate an invoice.


The Future of Physical Retail Monetization

The in-store revenue gap is rapidly closing as retailers embrace the power of programmatic DOOH and real-time POS data. The physical store is no longer a dark spot on the media buyer's map; it is quickly becoming the most data-rich, high-converting environment in the entire advertising ecosystem.

By treating physical aisles with the same programmatic rigor as e-commerce websites, retailers are unlocking billions in net-new, high-margin revenue. This transformation is not just about advertising; it is about fundamentally redefining the unit economics of physical retail for the 21st century.

Trillboards is proud to provide the screen aggregation, audience measurement, and developer infrastructure powering this revolution. We are building the rails that connect the physical world to the programmatic cloud, empowering retailers of all sizes to claim their share of this massive market.

Stop leaving money on the table; transform your physical retail screens into a dynamic, programmatic revenue engine today.


Frequently asked questions

What is the in-store revenue gap?

The in-store revenue gap refers to the massive disparity between where retail sales occur (83%+ in physical stores) and where retail media budgets are spent (only 5% in-store). Bridging this gap requires digitizing physical aisles with programmatic screens.

How does POS data integration improve DOOH revenue?

POS data integration connects digital screens to real-time store inventory. This ensures ads only play for products that are currently in stock, preventing wasted ad spend and allowing brands to bid dynamically based on actual store performance.

What is Trillboards' revenue model for publishers?

Trillboards provides free screen-management and ad-serving software ($0/screen/month). Programmatic ad revenue is split 60/40 in the publisher's favor: the venue/publisher keeps 60%, Trillboards keeps 40%.

Does Trillboards operate as an SSP or an exchange?

No. Trillboards is a screen aggregator and audience measurement platform. We work alongside SSP and exchange partners, who are complementary partners that connect our screen inventory and audience data to programmatic buyers.

How does Trillboards measure in-store audiences?

Screens use cameras and radio sensing to measure nearby people and devices. Cameras detect age range, gender, emotion, and dwell time, computing a 512-number face-identity template to recognise people across screens. Radio sensing captures Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS data, which is sent to Trillboards by default.

What developer tools does Trillboards offer for retail media networks?

Trillboards provides a Partner SDK (@trillboards/ads-sdk), an OpenAPI reference for full REST API management, a webhook-driven event architecture, and an MCP server (https://api.trillboards.com/mcp) that allows AI agents to plan and buy inventory programmatically.

How does Trillboards ensure programmatic supply chain transparency?

Trillboards executes a rigorous 14-check OpenRTB 2.6 supply-chain validation runbook on transactions, including sellers.json, ads.txt, and schain validation. We also use the OM SDK for MRC-compliant ad verification.

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