AdKaora, the digital company of Mondadori Digital, announces a strategic partnership with YEP (Your Eco Plan), a platform specialised in measuring, optimising, decarbonising, and activating environmental impact in digital advertising.

Thanks to this agreement, AdKaora integrates YEP’s Media Environmental Efficiency KPI (or Impact KPI) into its offering, adding a new level of measurement alongside traditional media KPIs. The system enables advertisers to assess how environmentally efficient a campaign is, without altering existing media buying strategies or operational workflows.

Environmental efficiency becomes part of media KPIs

Digital advertising today contributes over 3.5% of global CO₂ emissions, an impact comparable to the entire aviation sector. At the same time, growing European regulatory pressure, including the CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive – EU 2022/2464), is encouraging companies to consider advertising as part of their Scope 3 emissions.

In this context, there is a need to complement traditional media KPIs with new indicators capable of measuring not only performance but also the environmental efficiency of advertising delivery.

Making the impact actionable within the media

“We are pleased to collaborate with Luca Brighenti and YEP to offer our clients a timely tool that integrates environmental impact directly into media strategies, at a moment of strong and justified attention to green issues,” says Davide Tran, CEO of AdKaora and MarTech Hub Director at Mondadori Digital. “This partnership strengthens our positioning as an innovative player and allows brands to link advertising delivery to measurable and trackable environmental indicators.”

“With AdKaora, we introduce the Media Environmental Efficiency KPI directly within the agency’s offering,” states Luca Brighenti, Founder of YEP. “The goal is to make environmental efficiency a native media metric, integrated into campaign planning and evaluation, complementing traditional performance KPIs with a new operational dimension.”

How the integrated solution works

Within AdKaora’s offering, the new KPI is activated as a plug-and-play solution requiring no additional technical integrations. Through a single operational layer, the system provides:

• Measurement of environmental efficiency: calculating the environmental intensity of advertising delivery (gCO₂ per impression, energy consumed, campaign footprint) via a carbon data platform aligned with global frameworks such as the Global Media Sustainability Framework (GMSF);
• Optimisation of media efficiency: continuous analysis of media configurations to identify opportunities to improve environmental efficiency, with actionable recommendations integrated directly into planning strategies;
• Decarbonisation and activation of environmental projects in Italy: for unavoidable emissions, brands can activate decarbonisation solutions via certified carbon credits and local nature-based projects (reforestation, agroforestry, marine ecosystem protection), linking media efficiency to tangible environmental outcomes;
• Efficiency-ready reporting: YEP reporting translates delivery into clear environmental indicators — Footprint Index, Optimisation Index, and Outcome/Activation Index — which together form the Impact Score, a single metric representing the overall environmental efficiency of the campaign.