LookBookHQ uses customer data and behaviors to offer continuously updated content recommendations in each situation. It’s a bit tough to explain but pretty cool when you see it. They’ve just raised an $11 million Series B to help spread the word.
Attribution specialist Visual IQ announced a new Marketing Intelligence Platform that works with individual-level data. The system integrates cross-device identifiers, ad impressions, online and offline interactions to build complete customer profiles, enhances these with audience attributes from third party sources, adds marketing cost information, applies multiple attribution techniques, and can forecast future performance. It also includes marketing mix models, TV attribution, native ad bid management. and integration with external real time bidding platforms. Much of the new technology comes from Visual IQ’s acquition of Refined Labs in October 2016.
There’s one more funding announcement today but I know you don’t care. So here’s a little pre-Labor Day treat instead: a Target Marketing survey about the martech buying process. Worst news: just 47% of respondents said they create formal requirements before evaluating products. Better news: buyers take time for online research, demonstrations, and trial installations before making a final choice. (If you do care about funding: it was $21.4 million for VideoAmp.)
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.