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Advertising Startup StackAdapt Snags Massive $235M Round

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Advertising technologies do not interest investors as they once did, however, when you mix in artificial intelligence they take note. The Toronto-based company is a multichannel programmatic advertising platform that uses AI and automation in its software to enhance capabilities and user experience.

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Navigating ad fraud and consumer privacy abuse in programmatic advertising

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Previously, he was one of the early engineers on Amazon’s fraud prevention and risk management team and held various product leadership roles building ad tech and enterprise privacy technologies. Analyze your budget with quality versus reach in mind — fraudsters continue to take advantage of advertisers’ historic obsession with reach.

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AI platform to analyze creative advertising raises $5.1M from investors, including a16z

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In this increasingly AI-driven era, creative and media teams will probably need to employ the technology to up their game on analyzing their creative assets and A/B testing — or someone else will simply beat them to the punch. AI platform to analyze creative advertising raises $5.1M to identify elements of the creative.

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Pixalate tunes into $18.1M for fraud prevention in television, mobile advertising

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million in growth capital for its fraud protection, privacy and compliance analytics platform that monitors connected television and mobile advertising. Western Technology Investment and Javelin Venture Partners led the latest funding round, which brings Pixalate’s total funding to $22.7 Digital advertising is big business.

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Topsort, an auction-based advertising startup, now valued at $110M after seed round

TechCrunch

When Regina Ye was in college, she was a Shopify seller and recalls being so fed up with advertising solutions that she spent finals week staying up late to figure out how ads worked on Facebook and Amazon. “It I was an early adopter of B2B marketplaces, but advertising was this black box. Where will our data go when cookies disappear?

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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

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With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook. where it’ll face stiffer competition — which the co-founders hope Flow will edge out with its technology and attention to design — but a more extensive market base.

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Surfside, a marketing technology for the cannabis space, inhales $4 million

TechCrunch

Jon Lowen and Michael Blanche both hail from SITO Mobile, where they worked on location-based advertising and marketing via mobile devices. One of the major marketing challenges for dispensaries and cannabis brands is that the usual channels through which small brands advertise — Facebook and Google — are not available to them.

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