For media and performance teams

One plan, every channel. Problems flagged while they’re small.

You manage spend across a dozen platforms, and a lot of your week goes to reconciling, checking, and chasing. Alli keeps one plan next to the actuals, tells you in Slack when pacing or feeds slip, and scores video before it runs. You make the buying calls, and Alli does the legwork.

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Customer impact

What results are media teams seeing with Alli?

Cross Training Series Global Launch

With Alli, PMG built Peloton's growth audience from live signals, including Experian and Amazon purchase data, and brought more than 110 partners into one dashboard. Teams could manage frequency and shift spend between always-on reach and moments like the Las Vegas Grand Prix in real time instead of reconciling regional reports by hand.

5Global Markets at Launch

110Partners in one unified dashboard

Read the Peloton story

Turning QSR Marketing Into Measurable Performance

With Alli, PMG mapped audiences to each brand's store footprint and served region-specific ads within the same national Thursday Night Football broadcast, a first for QSR. Household-level exposure was matched to credit card transactions, so budget could follow real sales signals week to week.

63%Higher Net New Buyer Conversion

2%Sustained Transaction Lift

Read the CKE Restaurants story

Give the people what they want

With Alli, PMG mapped both existing users and the curious, business-minded audience SurveyMonkey wanted next. The "Give the people what they want" campaign featured Giancarlo Esposito across streaming, podcasts, and out-of-home, supported by more than a dozen TikTok and YouTube creators.

30%WoW Boost in Interest & Impressions

58%Drop in Brand CPCs

Read the SurveyMonkey story

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The challenge

Why does so much media time go to checking and reconciling?

Ask a buyer what slows them down and the answer is rarely strategy. It’s the plan that exists in several versions, the platform logins to open every morning, and the report that has to be rebuilt before anyone can say how a flight is pacing.

The work is necessary. It’s also the kind of work that expands as you add channels and markets, until the team spends more time confirming what happened than deciding what to do. And the problems that matter, like a stalled campaign, a broken landing page, or a feed that stopped updating, tend to be found by whoever happens to look.

The plan lives in several spreadsheets. Nobody is sure which version is approved

Alli Media Planner holds budgets, flighting, and approvals in one workspace with history

Plan against actuals needs another export. Variance shows up a week late

Media Planner places planned spend next to actuals from day one of spend

Spend goes into channels past their efficient point. Budget stops paying back

Alli Scenario Planner shows diminishing returns by channel before money moves

Morning platform checks. Hours go to looking, not deciding

Alli Alerts watches pacing, performance outliers, broken URLs, and feeds, and notifies the team in Slack

Creative wears out unnoticed. Results slide and the cause isn’t obvious

Alli Creative Insights flags creative fatigue early and shows which attributes drive performance

Weak video reaches full spend. The problem shows up in the results

Alli Creative Labs scores video against 23 creative features before launch

The system

What does Alli do for media and performance teams?

Alli is PMG’s operating system for business transformation, and for a media team it does three things. It puts the plan, the budget logic, and the actuals in one place. It watches the plan so nobody has to refresh dashboards to catch a problem. And it connects creative to media, so what you learn about the ads feeds back into what you buy.

Related pages go deeper on adjacent work. Alli for Measurement covers proving what the plan delivered. Alli for Audiences covers who to reach. Alli for Workflow Automation covers the routine tasks you’d rather not repeat.

In action

What does a media team’s week look like with Alli?

Three illustrations of the work. They show how the products fit together, not results from a named client.

  1. Example scenario · Alli Alerts

    The quiet campaign

    The situation

    A campaign stops spending late on a Friday. In the old routine, someone notices on Monday, after a weekend of lost delivery.

    What Alli does

    Alli Alerts catches the no-spend condition and notifies the team in Slack. A workflow built in Alli Generative Workflows can pull the context and draft a recommended change for the media lead to review.

    What you decide

    Whether to fix the cause, move the budget elsewhere, or leave it alone because the pause was deliberate.

  2. Example scenario · Alli Scenario Planner

    The mid-quarter shift

    The situation

    Paid social is hitting its numbers, but each extra dollar seems to return less. Search has headroom, and you need a case before moving spend.

    What Alli does

    Scenario Planner shows the saturation point for each channel and the projected revenue of moving budget. Once you choose, Media Planner records the change in the approved plan, with history, so finance sees what moved and why.

    What you decide

    Whether the modeled case is persuasive, how much to move, and when to check back.

  3. Example scenario · Alli Creative Labs

    The new video cut

    The situation

    A new video has three cuts and one launch date. Normally you’d run all three and read the results two weeks later.

    What Alli does

    Creative Labs scores each cut against 23 creative features and historical performance on the platform and KPI you choose, then recommends specific changes. After launch, Creative Insights tracks how the creative performs and flags fatigue early.

    What you decide

    Which cut to run, what to change first, and when a fresh version is worth producing. If it is, Alli Creative Studio turns approved designs into the versions you need.

By the numbers

What changes when teams run on Alli?

5Global Markets at LaunchPeloton
63%Higher Net New Buyer ConversionCKE Restaurants
30%WoW Boost in Interest & ImpressionsSurveyMonkey
34%Higher Cost Effectiveness Than BenchmarkSterling
People in charge

Where do media teams stay in charge?

Built to scale your team’s judgment, not replace it.

Alli does the reconciling, watching, and scoring. Your buyers, planners, and leads decide where budget moves, what to do about an alert, and which creative runs.

Building the plan. Holds one plan with approvals and history, and models scenarios

Set the strategy, choose the scenario, and approve the plan

Watching delivery. Flags pacing, outliers, broken URLs, and feed failures

Decide whether to cap, fund, or move budget

Following up. Routes the signal and can draft a recommended change

Review the draft and approve what goes live

Testing creative. Scores video and flags fatigue

Choose what runs and brief the next round

Reporting. Shows plan against actuals

Explain the result and decide what happens next

The foundation

What data do media teams plan on?

Plans, alerts, and creative reads all draw on the same trusted data, with shared definitions across platforms, so a number in the plan matches the number in the alert. Your team spends less time arguing about which export is right.

Getting started

Where should a media team start?

Start with the task that eats the most hours. Each entry point connects to the others later.

If your biggest problem is...Start withFirst step
Plans scattered across spreadsheetsMedia PlannerMove one market’s plan into one workspace and track it against actuals
Finding problems lateAlli AlertsTurn on pacing and no-spend alerts for your biggest channels
Not knowing what creative to runCreative Insights and Creative LabsScore your next video launch and read fatigue on what’s live

Alli for media teams FAQ

How Alli helps buyers and planners work from one plan and catch problems earlier.

  1. What is Alli for media and performance teams?

    It’s a way of using Alli’s products together for the daily work of planning, running, and refining paid media. It draws on the Media Investment, Always-On Monitoring, and Creative solutions, so one plan, one set of alerts, and one view of creative performance sit on the same trusted data.

  2. How do you keep media budget pacing on track?

    Compare planned spend with actuals continuously, and get told when they diverge. Media Planner places actuals next to the plan from day one of spend, and Alli Alerts flags channels pacing ahead or behind and notifies the team in Slack. The media lead then decides whether to cap, fund, or move budget.

  3. How can a team spot creative fatigue early?

    Track creative performance by attribute, not just by ad, so a slide shows up as it starts. Alli Creative Insights tags images and video, connects those attributes to audience and media performance, and flags fatigue early, while there is still time to brief and run a refresh.

  4. Can Alli test creative before it runs?

    For video, yes. Creative Labs scores each asset against 23 creative features and historical performance on the platform and KPI you choose, then recommends specific changes. Teams can compare variants before spend begins. Once ads are live, Creative Insights takes over, tracking how the creative performs in market.

  5. Will Alli make buying decisions for us?

    No. Alli handles reconciliation, monitoring, scenario modeling, and scoring. Buyers and planners choose the plan, approve changes, and decide what to do about an alert. Where a workflow drafts a recommended change, a person reviews it first. The AI scales your team’s expertise, and it does not replace it.

  6. How do you know when a channel is saturated?

    Look at diminishing returns by channel. Scenario Planner shows where additional spend stops producing efficient growth and what moving budget to a channel with headroom could do. If an increase barely moves predicted revenue, the channel is likely saturated, and the budget probably belongs somewhere else.

  7. Who can use Alli?

    Alli is available to PMG clients. Media, performance, and creative teams use the same platform PMG’s experts use, so both sides work from the same plan, alerts, and results. Book a walkthrough to see it with your own channels, markets, and budgets.

Spend the week deciding, not checking.

Book a walkthrough and bring a live plan. We’ll show you how Alli keeps it next to the actuals, watches it, and scores the creative. Alli is available to PMG clients.