Walle and McNichols Said That By Taking the Human Element out of the Attribution Model, the Machine Learning-Based Approach Was the Only Way to Measure Cross-Channel Media Is TV advertising industry truly entitled? We keep hearing that TV advertising is not up to the mark in delivering results proportional to the media budget. A part of the problem lies in the gaps in TV performance analytics. The latest partnership between TVadSync and Unacast changes this dynamic, combining cutting-edge cross-screen media and…

Signum Capital, a Singapore-based blockchain firm, announced their support for Fysical. Their strong interest in Fysical is in response to its location data market protocol for the next wave of big data: the physical world. @Signum_Capital, a #Singapore-based #blockchain firm, announced their support for @FysicalProtocol via @MlgBlockchain #locationdata #bigdata “We are honored to have the support of Signum Capital for our location data market protocol,” said Ben Smith, Co-Founder of Fysical. “We believe the next…

New Research from Location Data Pioneer Blis Identifies the New Consumer Path to Purchase; Highlights the Transformation of the Path to Purchase from Linear to Web Based on Location Data Just five years ago, the majority of shoppers placed TV ads as the primary source of knowledge for new product discovery, closely followed by friends and family. Now, Digital e-commerce is a tricky place. The consumer path in the buying cycle has grown wider and more complex with time. Location data is a very powerful tool for marketers to…

The Recent Survey on Location Data Revealed Most Respondents Agree That Geo-Marketing Is the Next-Big-Thing After Automation and AI-Driven Ecommerce Let's take a shot at the most enterprising question of 2018 -- How are companies using location data, and what is its impact on digital campaigns? To answer this, Factual, a global leader in location data, surveyed 700 location data buyers in the US. The purpose of the study was focused at understanding the true state of location data marketing and how different companies use…

Verify Will Protect Advertiser Investments and Highlight the Market's Best Players  Mobile location intelligence company, Location Sciences, announced the launch of Verify, providing advertisers independently authenticated insight into the accuracy and precision of their location-based advertising campaigns. Leveraging first-party data and proprietary technology, advertisers and agencies use Verify to understand location signal and POI radius accuracy, footfall, audience profile matching, and optimise their location…

If a Tool Is Limited by the Availability of Low-Quality Data, It Just Won't Be of  Value. As the Data Market Becomes More Crowded, It's Also Important to Focus on Transparency, says Unacast CEO  Thomas Walle When a Location Data platform raises significant funding from leading investors in the industry, it ought to make waves. Unacast, the makers of Real Time Graph, scooped $17.5 million. Clear with their plans for the future and ambitious in taking their product road-map to new territories, the Thomas Walle-led company…

Company Will Continue to Empower Businesses to Make Smarter Decisions by Providing Unprecedented Access to Human Activity Through the Real World Graph Barely months before GDPR comes into force, Unacast, the maker of Real World Graph, has announced that is has raised $17.5 million in a new funding round. The leading contextual and transparent location data platform scooped the funding round from its lead investors, Transatlantic fund White Star Capital, and joined by strategic investor Telia, a leading European telco, and…

Cognitive Automation, Neural Intelligence, Emotional AI, Conversation Assistants, and Proximity Guides -- AI as a Technology Has Come a Long Way Since Its First Mention in a Sci-Fi Novel in the Last Century I always felt that Issac Asimov and Sigmund Freud would have made a fabulous pair as a CTO and a CMO, running a tech company in 2018. Why? Science and creativity, with a touch of human emotion, can solve all the pain points that marketers face today. Most marketing leaders would agree that AI will remain a …

A Cheatsheet of What MarTech Industry Experts Had To Say About Using Location Data To Better Serve Your Customer Base  ‘Location Data Is Tying Digital Spend To Offline’ Gladys Kong - CEO, UberMedia: Despite the rise of e-commerce, the majority of real-world business outcomes still occur in offline environments beyond the reach of digital attribution models. Mobile location data is closing that gap. In the last few years, UberMedia has released multiple innovations linking business efforts and results to actual location…

New Features Include A Redesigned CMS Homepage, Self-Serve Map Editor, Latitude-Longitude Coordinate Conversion Utility And More  Jibestream, the premier indoor mapping platform provider, announced the addition of new features and enhancements to streamline integration and simplify adoption. New additions to the Jibestream platform include a redesigned Content Management System (CMS) homepage, a self-serve map editor, a latitude-longitude coordinate conversion utility, expanded support for map formats, and a map…

Airship’s State of Global Mobile Engagement 2020 report provides key year-over-year mobile trends and clarifies the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on mobile apps Customer engagement company Airship revealed top-level results of its global benchmark study, examining the state of mobile app behaviors across nearly 750 million people worldwide. To distinguish between the impact of the pandemic and longer-term changes due to growing data regulations, more stringent app review policies by Apple and Google and ongoing…

Khoros, a global leader in digital-first customer engagement software, announced the launch of its newest data hosting location in Sydney, Australia, which will allow the company to deliver enhanced software performance and data privacy confidence for its customers in Australia and New Zealand. The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is one of the fastest-growing markets for Khoros, given its accelerated pace toward digital transformation and widespread shift to cloud computing. With local data hosting, Khoros is even better…

New Geo-Mapping Capabilities Provide Companies with Location-Based Business Insights GoodData, a leading global analytics company, announced new geo-mapping capabilities to better meet the needs of companies seeking location data analytics to inform strategic decision making. This new set of analytical visualizations, analytics, and modeling techniques results in GoodData providing the most advanced support for geolocation in the analytics industry for market trends evaluation, site selection, asset tracking and…

Verto Analytics launches new research solutions to help understand the overlay of online usage and offline foot traffic with a panel-based measurement solution - Unacast will process Verto’s 1st-party location data to improve Verto’s data enrichment Unacast, an award-winning and industry-leading location data and strategic insights company, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Verto Analytics, a premier market research and behavioral research platform. Verto Analytics will use Turbine, Unacast’s Platform as a…

Report is first in research series that will form the cornerstone of Blis’ evolution to delivering  real-world intelligence that provides real, actionable insights for businesses to deeply understand their customers Blis, the global leader in real-world intelligence, launched the first of its quarterly insights series, ‘Real-world intelligence: how the world eats’. The series, powered by the Blis Smart Platform, examines the patterns of behaviour from over 2.5 million consumers in 133,000 locations globally. The ‘How the…

HERE Technologies, a global leader in mapping and location platform services, and Blis, a global pioneer in advanced location data technology, announced a partnership that will enhance Blis’ audience ability to deliver premium, accurate and scalable points of interest (POIs) across all of its location-targeting insight capabilities and tools. HERE Places, the company’s global database of places, will enhance Blis’ robust POI database, which maps verified GPS data to real-world locations. With access to more than 1 billion…

180byTwo, the leader in B2B Audience Solutions announced the launch of eCHO, the industries first true cross channel location based B2B Intent solution. Powered by billions of Buying Intent Signals, Precise Location Intelligence, and advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI), this solution enables B2B and ABM Marketers to more accurately identify and activate customer and prospect accounts when there is genuine buying intent, allowing for more targeted sales and marketing campaigns across channels. Users of this new solution…

Pushing the Envelope of ATV Ad Targeting, Centriply Announces Major Planning Platform Update There are two adages in life "Timing is everything." and "Location, location, location."  The Targeted TV specialist Centriply, announced its new updated martech platform, TangoGEO2.0 taps into both. Creating common ground for media by combining the many layers of TV and digital video impressions. Achieving unmatched scale by using the impact of broadcast, the reach of cable and the performance of OTT/Addressable to support each…

PeerLogix, Inc, the go-to audience discovery platform for the evolving OTT/streaming TV ecosystem, announced their data-focused partnership with Gravy Analytics, a real-world location intelligence company, designed to allow marketers to target consumers across channels based on a union of the companies’ extensive data sets. This partnership is powered by LiveRamp, a leading provider of omnichannel identity resolution, and their Data Innovators program. Using these new audience segments, advertisers can reach consumers…

Verve, the leading mobile platform for location-powered programmatic video and display marketing, announced its integration with Yext, the leader in Digital Knowledge Management (DKM), via the Yext App Directory. The integration empowers brands and advertisers to seamlessly activate place data from Yext in the Verve Velocity platform and launch multi-location mobile marketing campaigns. Integration with Verve enables new capabilities for Yext customers as consumer dependence on mobile steadily increases and brand…