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Nielsen Acquires Gracenote to Better Understand Who Consumes What Content

Audience measurement giant Nielsen is acquiring Gracenote, which provides metadata (i.e., descriptions and tags) about TV shows, movies, music, and other content to program guides on TVs, connected devices, in-car entertainment systems, and online services. Nielsen’s announcement says it will tie the data into its audience measurement framework, enabling marketers to better target customers and optimize campaigns in real time. In other words, this is about adding still more information to customer profiles.

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Adobe Launches TV Ad Planning Platform

December 19, 2016

We recently reported about Lotame measuring TV audiences with individual data from Smart TVs, even though advertisers still had to buy ads that reach everyone who views a show.  Here’s something similar from Adobe, which is using data from other devices to understand who’s watching.  Adobe’s “TV Media Management Platform” is also provides advanced forecasting to help media planning.  It’s always nice to see martech and adtech working together, if only so I can call it “madtech”.

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Salesforce Buys Airkit.ai for Automated Customer Service

September 22, 2023

Salesforce is buying Airkit.ai, which builds low-code, AI-powered e-commerce customer service agents.  You might have thought Salesforce could already do that, but presumably Airkit does it better.  It doesn’t hurt that the company founders sold a previous business to Salesforce, the company was partly funded by Salesforce Ventures, and the product is already listed on AppExchange.  Price was not announced.

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