Location-based marketing platform HYP3R has raised a $17 million Series A funding, bringing its total to $23.5 million. HYP3R identifies customers when they enter a geo-fenced location such as a mall or hotel and sends them personalized, real-time messages. It can also track visits to competitive locations and monitor social media comments about a location. HYP3R specializes in travel and retail clients.
Podcasts have been hailed as an emerging media channel recently. If you’re drinking that Kool-Aid, you’ll be interested that leading podcast publisher Stuff Media was just purchased by struggling radio, outdoor, and entertainment giant iHeartMedia, which already has a large podcast publishing and distribution operation. By “struggling”, I mean iHeartMedia filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last March.
Advocado has launched MicroMoment+, which automatically raises Google ad keyword bids for a few minutes after a TV ad is broadcast. Sounds crazy but a pilot study found a 98% increase in click-through. The system can also tie phone calls back to specific ads and includes prebuilt integration with Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Ads, Facebook, Bing ads, Microsoft Dynamics365, Zoho and Google Analytics. Advocado recently merged with Traaqr, which provides small businesses with online-to-phone conversion tracking.
Incrmntal has released its Explorer platform, which uses “causal AI” to estimate the incremental impact of advertising investments. What’s magic is the incremental measurements happen without marketers needing to set up incremental impact tests. The system can also suggest the best place to spend your next ad dollar.