Speaking of digital out-of-home, digital signage company UPshow has raised a $14 million Series A, bringing their total to $17 million. Their superpower is reprogramming existing in-venue TV screens to deliver ads and content that visitors can interact with through their mobile device.
The news gods are in a generous mood today, Dear Reader. First we have SAP purchasing multi-channel customer interaction platform (and CDP) Emarsys. The main goal seems to be better B2C personalization, but SAP has been nosing around the CDP market for some time, so this could help in that area too.
Social Native applies advanced analytics to match brands with social media content creators. They just bought Olapic, which helps brands source user-generated visual content. The combined firm will apply Social Native’s analytics to Olapic’s content collection. Makes sense.
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.