Also speaking of trust, our friends at Facebook have announced plans to inject advertisements into virtual reality experiences on their Oculus mobile app.  What’s entertaining, and a bit pitiful, is that most of the announcement is devoted to explanations of how Facebook will absolutely, sincerely, and completely respect users’ privacy.  Raise your hand if you’re convinced.  (I saw that.)

Adtech vendor Yieldmo has introduced a cookieless ad exchange, which classifies inventory based on a wide range of contextual signals including situation, topic, environment, and customer behavior.  Think of it as contextual targeting on steroids.  The good news according to Yieldmo is their approach lets publishers sell non-addressable inventory that would otherwise be undervalued.

Products to connect ad impressions with sales results are usually limited to one ad type and one sales channel.  You can add VideoAmp and TransUnion to that list: they’ve launched an offering that links VideoAmpt’s TV viewer data with TransUnion’s TruAudience purchase data.  VideoAmp can also use the data to optimize media plans in real time.