Origami Logic gathers a ton of marketing data for performance measurement. But it doesn’t work at the individual customer level, so it’s not a customer data platform. With hair-thin light gray type on a white background, its Web site may set a world record for illegibility. Just saying.

One of the fastest-growing applications for artificial intelligence is extracting business information from the Web. Crayon, founded in 2014, lets clients specify companies to follow and then sends a real-time feed of over 100 types of information including price and message changes, new products, and online reviews. Crayon says it has 42,000 users for its free and paid products. It just raised $3.35 million, bringing total funding to $5.1 million.

It’s tough to get brand safety right, but the industry keeps trying.  IPG Mediabrands announced a new set of tools to find and block inappropriate ad placements, while IAS expanded its suitability measurements to include standards from the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM).  Meanwhile, DoubleVerify admitted a mistake made brand safety on X/Twitter look worse than it really was in October 2023 and March 2024.