The operating system for global media investment.

Every plan. Every market. Every agency. One governed workspace — from annual brand brief through to final actualisation.

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The Real Problems

Three failures every senior media buyer recognises.

No single source of truth

Plans live in email, spreadsheets, and agency platforms — different versions, different assumptions, no one certain which is current.

Governance that depends on discipline, not design

Approvals happen over email with no formal record. Audit trails exist only if individuals maintain them. When something goes wrong, there's no reliable record of who agreed to what.

Investment decisions made without market context

Plans are built on last year's benchmarks or internal estimates — not on what media is actually costing in market, right now.

Governance & approvals

Governance built into the workflow — not bolted on.

Without

Plans approved over email with no formal record
No audit trail of who signed off what, or when
Plan versions circulated as email attachments
Discrepancies between agreed and actual spend found late
Governance depends entirely on individual discipline

The Lumina approach

Lumina inverts the traditional approach.

Most planning tools start with channel budgets and figure out audiences. Lumina starts with the audience and figures out the channels.

The Guideline Lumina Approach Diagram

Linear TV

Reaching the broadest base

Linear remains the highest-reach single channel for many audiences. Lumina models duplication with streaming so you don't pay twice for the same impression.

Capabilities

Four shifts that change how plans get built.

01

Build the audience first

Define your target audience once. The definition travels with the plan — through channel allocation, through approvals, through execution. No re-interpretation between teams. No drift between brief and buy.

02

Model reach across every channel

See how your audience can be reached across linear TV, streaming, programmatic, social, search, and audio — all in one view. Adjust the channel mix and watch reach update live. Overlap, duplication, and gaps surface visibly, not in a post-hoc spreadsheet.

03

Validated pricing, embedded

SQAD pricing data — 40+ years of validated transactions — is built into the workspace. The rates you're modelling against are the rates the market is genuinely paying.

04

From brief to execution in one workspace

The annual brief, the audience definition, the channel mix, and the executable plan all live in one interface. No handoff loss between strategic planning and tactical activation. The plan you build is the plan that runs.

For the teams planning at the intersection of channels.

Agency planners

Build cross-media plans from a single audience brief. No re-interpreting the audience for each channel team. No assembly-required plan delivery.

Brand marketing leaders

See your audience across every screen. Allocate where they actually are now, not where they used to be. Strategic intent intact from brief to execution.

Cross-channel strategists

Stop modelling reach in a spreadsheet. Build, adjust, and execute from one workspace where the audience and the channel mix live together.

Across every sector

Trusted across every sector with serious media investment.

The brands behind the world's most-spent-on advertising categories.

Quick service restaurants

The world's most-visited QSR chains, operating across dozens of markets and hundreds of agency relationships.

Automotive

Global automotive brands managing multi-market media investment across mass-market and premium segments.

Financial services

The world's largest payment networks and retail banks — complex regulatory requirements, multi-agency structures, every major market.

FMCG & consumer goods

The global consumer goods companies behind the world's most-spent-on product categories.

Luxury

The world's most recognised luxury houses, where investment governance and brand consistency are non-negotiable.

Technology

Global technology companies managing media investment across B2B and B2C audiences, multiple agency partners, every market.

Healthcare & pharma

Global pharmaceutical and healthcare brands operating under strict regulatory frameworks — where approval governance and audit trails aren't optional.

Entertainment & streaming

The streaming platforms and entertainment brands competing for audience attention across every screen and every market.

Talk with us

Audience-first planning. At enterprise scale.

A short conversation is usually enough to see how Lumina fits into your existing cross-media planning workflow.

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