Marketing & Advertising

Bridge physical ads to digital attribution.

Billboards, print placements, and OOH displays finally get the same tracking your digital campaigns have always had. Every physical ad gets a digital heartbeat.

The old way

Physical advertising is a black box.

Zero tracking on OOH

Billboards and transit ads generate impressions you can estimate but never actually measure. You pay for eyeballs you can only guess at.

Can't prove ROI

When the CFO asks what the print buy actually drove, the honest answer is "we don't know." Attribution is guesswork at best.

No optimization mid-flight

Digital campaigns get optimized hourly. Physical campaigns run blind from launch to teardown. No pivots. No data.

The Tapped way

Every physical ad gets a digital heartbeat.

NFC smart tags turn static placements into tracked, measurable, optimizable touchpoints. Same rigor you expect from paid digital, applied to the physical world.

Tapped Insights overview with scan trend, stat row, and device breakdown

Insights show scan trends, unique visitors, and device breakdowns for every tag.

Attribution

UTM-Tagged Physical Touchpoints

Every NFC tag carries your campaign, source, and medium parameters automatically. When someone taps a billboard tag, the UTM data flows straight into GA4, your ad platform, or your CDP. No manual URL typing. No broken links.

  • Auto-appended campaign, source, medium params
  • Dynamic parameters that update without reprinting
  • Clean data that matches your digital taxonomy
Analytics

Real-Time Campaign Analytics

Watch your OOH campaign come alive. Scan volume spikes, device breakdowns, geographic heat maps, and time-of-day patterns tell you exactly how your physical placements are performing, as they perform.

  • Scan volume trends with hourly granularity
  • Device type and OS breakdown per placement
  • Geographic heat maps by city, region, or venue
Optimization

Creative testing in the real world

Test different landing pages from the same physical placement. Swap the destination mid-flight and compare scan trends in Insights. The same tag on the same billboard can serve different experiences and tell you which one wins.

  • Split traffic across multiple landing pages
  • Compare scan trends side by side in Insights
  • Pivot to the winner without reprinting anything
A day in the life

Billboard campaign, fully tracked.

Day 1

Deploy tags on OOH assets

NFC tags go onto billboard frames, bus shelter panels, and transit displays. Each tag carries unique UTM parameters tied to placement, market, and creative variant.

Week 1

First scans roll in

Real-time dashboard lights up. You see which markets, which placements, and which times of day are driving engagement. Device data and geo heat maps populate automatically.

Week 3

Mid-campaign destination swap

Landing page B is clearly outperforming A. You pivot all tags to the winning variant from your dashboard. No reprints. No site visits. Live in seconds.

Month End

ROI report with real numbers

Present the board with scans per placement, cost per measurable engagement, conversion paths, and geographic performance. No guesswork. No estimates. Data.

Where the return comes from

The economics of measurable media

Attribution

Spend follows proof, not guesses

Every tap on a billboard, shelter panel, or print placement is a measured touch — time, place, device — carried into GA4 or your CDP on clean UTM parameters. When you can see which placements produce engagement, the next buy goes where the data points instead of where the sales rep does.

Lower costs

Pivot mid-flight without production runs

Swapping a destination or creative experience is a dashboard change, not a reprint, a site visit, or a change order. A placement that would otherwise run its full flight underperforming gets re-aimed at the winning landing page the day you spot the trend.

Compounding value

Hardware outlives the campaign

The tag on the frame stays when the creative changes — the next flight starts with tracked touchpoints already in place. And every campaign's scan data adds to what you know about markets, placements, and dayparts, so each media plan starts smarter than the last.

The tags are bought once. The destinations, the tests, and the attribution keep running flight after flight.

The platform

Built for physical ad attribution.

100%

Of scans tracked — device, location, time

48

API endpoints for custom reporting pipelines

3

Automation engines — rotate, schedule, and route

∞

Campaign swaps — change destinations without replacing tags

Everything you need

Built for media buyers who demand data.

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Make every physical ad accountable.

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