You’ve almost surely heard the reports that Netflix is seriously considering an ad-supported version of its service, so I can’t really claim it’s news.  But I will point out that for all the hand-wringing among people who dislike ads, there’s plenty of research that most consumers will gladly watch them in return for free or lower-price services.   So it’s probably a good idea.

Back on the targeting front, Neustar has partnered with out-of-home video network Captivate to identify audiences across Captivate’s network for 23,000 displays in nearly 2,000 office, residential, and golf facilities.  The ads can’t be targeted directly at individuals.

GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads.  The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles.  GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.