The headline “Omnicom Media Group Launches Industry’s First Supply Chain-Based Media Activation Tool” sounds like a clever, if far-fetched, bit of newsjacking. But it turns out they’ve really given media planners a tool to adjust the products they advertise based on retail availability, pulling out-of-stock items and pushing available substitutes. It’s an impressive bit of technology.

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.