Out-of-home advertising includes not just billboards but video displays in retail stores and other public locations. Geopath specializes in measuring those channels. They’ve just done a deal with in-store audio ad network Stingray to expand their coverage of out- of-home audio ads, addressing a problem you may never have even considered.
Audience measurement is a challenge across all channels, even when cookies aren’t involved. Nielsen in particular has struggled to keep up with TV audiences, as delivery methods expanded beyond linear broadcasts to streaming networks, mobile devices, and on-line video. Their latest extension is “Four-Screen Ad Deduplication”, which adds deduplicated YouTube viewers to its Total Ad Ratings data.
E-commerce across Latin America exploded in the past two years, but against an infrastructure that wasn’t prepared for all of that activity. Treggo is developing technology to make urban shipments in Argentina, Mexico and Chile easier, so merchants of any size can provide an Amazon-like service for their customers. Users can receive immediate quotes, see the closest distributor and monitor deliveries in real time. The company also has a collaboration with Mercado Libre’s Flex Shipping to allow products to be received in as soon as one hour.
Here’s a new buzzword for your Bingo card: “agentic AI”, which describes systems that act by themselves rather than in response to a prompt. Salesforce was all over the concept last week, announcing its Agentforce collection. According to the company, it replaces the “now-outdated copilots and chatbots” with agents “operating autonomously, retrieving the right data on demand, building action plans for any task, and executing these plans without requiring human intervention.”