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Consumer intelligence firm NIQ is collaborating with Google, adding its global retail and product intelligence to the tech giant's AI commerce ecosystem to improve product discovery and local availability.
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London-based Ares Intelligence has landed £2.48 million in funding, with which to expand its team and find new customers. The firm uses an AI interviewer to talk to all the employees of a client company, then outputs a roadmap for implementing AI to save time and money.
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In London, open-standard semantic analytics platform Querio has launched with a $5 million seed funding round, and says it will accelerate product engineering including its MCP and agentic ecosystem, expand its development team, and expand its marketing activity.
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Ipsos has appointed former Nielsen Chief Executive Mitch Barns as Chairman and CEO, Americas, beginning next week. Mary Ann Packo will leave the company at the end of November after a handover period, having spent two and a half years in the NA CEO role.
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Forrester Research has announced Q3 revenue down 8.7% to $86.1 million, with adjusted net income of $4.7 million. CEO and Chairman George Colony says the business, which has been shrinking rapidly since 2023, is 'stabilizing', and is raising its forecast for 2026 earnings. More
Media measurement group Fifty5Blue has announced the acquisitions of Simantea and TRP Research, adding capabilities in audience insight, consumer behaviour and measurement technology. More
Two independent media assurance bodies, the UK's ABC and US organization the Alliance for Audited Media (AAM), are partnering to steer the media and ad industry's responsible development of AI. The initiative aims to educate practitioners, and 'elevate and validate' AI use. More
Ad effectiveness measurement specialist ABCS Insights has appointed Marc Ryan as Chief Product Officer. He previously held the same role at YouGov, and worked in senior positions at Kantar and Nielsen. More
Commerce intelligence platform Criteo has appointed Jianchang 'JC' Mao to its Board as an independent director. Mao is a former employee of Google, Microsoft and IBM, and now a General Partner at AI investment company Fellows Fund. Separately, Criteo is moving its domicile to the States. More
Independent ad tech company The Trade Desk has appointed Vinny Rinaldi as Vice President of Client Strategy & Growth, reporting to COO Vivek Kundra. More
Harlow Consulting, a custom research agency based in Harrogate, Yorkshire, has appointed Mary Meredith as a Research Manager, supporting mixed-methods research and evaluation services. More
Marcoms group Stagwell has appointed former Omnicom / Annalect and WPP executive Dru Sil in the new role of Global Product Managing Director for its Stagwell Media Platform (SMP). More
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