You may have thought BrightTALK was in the business of delivering Webinars, but it turns out they’re really collecting intent data. At least that’s the perspective of TechTarget, which just bought them to grow its stock of intent information. Price was $150 million.
One of the problems faced by AI systems is it’s often hard to know how they’re reaching conclusions – meaning that bias and errors are hidden from users. Arthur is designed to address this by monitoring AI performance. They just raised a $15 million Series A.
Every channel wants to be a shopping channel these days. Interactive video platform WIREWAX has just launched a new app that lets Chromecast users pause streaming videos to see information and make purchases. Users can even “turn any paused frame into a playful shareable meme with creative graphic layers”. Some people must have a lot of time on their hands.
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.