The IAB pegs out-of-home (OOH) advertising around $6 billion with a 21.7% growth rate. But this survey from OOH marketplace provider OneScreen.ai takes a brighter view: they report that diminishing returns have 97% of marketers are looking for alternatives to digital, and 92% plan to increase OOH budgets. They earn points for creativity by describing radio and podcasts as “audio out-of-home”.
Don’t feel sorry for Meta: this IAB report finds that U.S. social media ad revenue grew by 39% in 2021, faster than search (32.8%) or display ads (29%) but less than digital video (51%). Total internet advertising grew by 35.4% to reach $186 billion, while the next-largest ad channel, television, rose just 8.7% to about $67 billion.
Real-time personalization vendor Fulcrum has released its own Customer Data Platform. As you’d expect, it’s tightly integrated with Fulcrum’s AI-based analytics and personalization workflows. That makes it a Campaign CDP in CDP Institute terms.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.