DirectHEAT helps medical media sales people protect and grow business by providing easy access to multimedia advertising intelligence on key account opportunities. This intelligence is powered by the industry-standard Kantar Media competitive ad data: Market Opportunity Reporter for journals, Evaliant for websites.

In today’s multimedia healthcare marketplace, media sellers face many challenges: resources, time management pressures, increasing competition from across all media, explosion of digital media options, continual sales cycles and tight marketing budgets.

This new service from Kantar Media Professional Health places competitive advertising insights in the hands of media salespeople. Users can view creative units, occurrences and spend for print advertising in healthcare publications as well as online creative units and occurrences, all in an easy-to-use, timely dashboard. Kantar Media customizes access for the specific needs of each subscriber so DirectHEAT automatically delivers alerts, reports, and fast facts. Users review the information they need within their e-mail, and have the ability to dive deeper instantly on the website. 

Key Benefits

• Identify the best sales opportunities quickly: missing advertisers, advertisers spending more with the competition, and breaking new creative (including new online ads, in almost “real-time”) delivered directly to users’ inboxes.
• Sell smarter: get a 360 degree perspective on a particular company or brand’s advertising, with topline DTC and professional spend comparisons, data on both professional websites and journals, activity across all specialties. 
• Sell more efficiently: prepare for sales calls and manage each territory with customized reports on market share and new products and timely, high-quality advertiser intelligence readily available online.

Key Deliverables:

• Single source for print and online ad activity and creative.
• User-definable client and prospect lists, competitive sets and more.
• Customized e-mail alerts and online reports, based on each user’s account list and competitive set.
• Any time, any where access to deeper advertiser insights via the DirectHEAT website.
• Data is searchable by advertiser company, brand, or competitive media property.
• Easy-to-follow graphic overviews of ad activity by company, brand and media property.

The newest addition to Kantar Media Professional Health’s suite of audience measurement, competitive intelligence and behavioral insight services comes with the same commitment to data quality, training and support that healthcare media companies rely on today.