Meet the Developer
Micael Brownlee
Associate Director · Initiative UK (Omnicom)
Micael Brownlee
📍 London, UK
4+
Years across Omnicom & IPG in Australia & the UK
400+
Trafficking sheets built manually across hundreds of campaigns
3–4 hrs
Average time spent per trafficking sheet — now reduced to minutes
Background

I'm a digital media professional with over five years of experience across the Omnicom group, working with some of the world's most ambitious brands across programmatic, digital direct, and integrated media campaigns.

My career started in Melbourne at OMD Australia, where I spent three years cutting my teeth across digital planning and campaign management, working across a broad portfolio of clients and developing a deep understanding of programmatic execution and the operational machinery behind it.

From there I joined Initiative Melbourne as Digital Manager before relocating to Initiative UK in London, where I've been embedded in some of the agency's largest global accounts — including major enterprise technology brands running complex, multi-market European campaigns.

Programmatic Digital Direct DV360 CM360 Prisma Media Planning Ad Operations Campaign Management
Career Journey
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May 2021 – Mar 2022 · Melbourne
Media Assistant
OMD Australia (Omnicom)
Started career in offline and digital planning across clients including Dept of Transport, Royal Botanic Gardens, Formula One and Museums Victoria. Built foundational skills across media channels and campaign management.
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Mar 2022 – Mar 2024 · Melbourne
Account Executive
OMD Australia (Omnicom)
Led end-to-end performance campaign management across Acquisitions, Leads and Conversions objectives. Managed millions in billable media autonomously — including ad ops trafficking, invoicing and supplier reconciliation. Delivered internal training on AdOps tagging and Digital Planning Fundamentals.
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Apr 2024 – May 2025 · Melbourne
Digital Manager
Initiative Melbourne (IPG Mediabrands)
Worked closely with client marketing teams including Priceline to align digital and offline media strategies. Deepened expertise in programmatic, Prisma trafficking workflows and cross-market campaign management.
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Aug 2025 – Present · London
Associate Director
Initiative UK (Omnicom)
Relocated to London managing large-scale programmatic and digital direct campaigns across EMEA for major enterprise clients including Amazon Web Services. Hundreds of trafficking sheets built — and the lived frustration that inspired TraffiqGen.
The Problem I Kept Running Into
Every agency I've worked at, and every colleague I know across WPP, Publicis, Omnicom and beyond — we all have the same problem. Trafficking sheets eat our time.

A single programmatic trafficking sheet for a multi-market European campaign takes 3 to 4 hours to complete manually — pulling creative specs from the CMM, matching placement names and IDs from Prisma, cross-referencing CPM rates and impression volumes from the media plan, checking TRK codes, validating ad sizes, constructing ad names to taxonomy.

That's before the back-and-forth with Ad Ops teams when something doesn't match — a creative name with underscores versus spaces, a misaligned placement name, a missing TRK code. Each error means a delay. Each delay means a campaign goes live late, and late launches cost clients real money.

The honest truth is that most mistakes happen not because people don't care or don't know what they're doing — they happen because we're stretched impossibly thin, juggling multiple live campaigns, and spending hours on a manual process that should take minutes.

Why I Built TraffiqGen

I built TraffiqGen because I know this problem from the inside. I've sat in the same seat, at 6pm, staring at three spreadsheets trying to reconcile placement names across a 22-country campaign with 40 creatives and a hard launch deadline the next morning.

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3–4 hours → under 5 minutes
What previously required manual cross-referencing across three separate documents is now automated end to end — CMM, Prisma and Media Plan merged in seconds.
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Fewer errors, faster launches
Built-in mismatch detection flags creative name discrepancies, missing TRK codes and unmatched placements before the sheet ever reaches Ad Ops — eliminating the most common causes of campaign delays.
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Time back for what actually matters
Freeing up 3–4 hours per campaign means more bandwidth for strategy, finance, client relationships, and the high-value work that actually moves the needle for clients.
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Built for every agency, not just mine
Colleagues across WPP, Publicis, Omnicom and independent agencies all face the same workflow. TraffiqGen is designed to adapt to different template structures — because no two agencies format their CMMs identically.
"The time we spend on trafficking sheets is time we're not spending on strategy, on client relationships, on the things that actually differentiate great agencies. That's the problem TraffiqGen solves."
— Micael Brownlee, Creator of TraffiqGen
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