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Comscore has sold off its Movies box office measurement business to private investment firm Advaya Capital, which will immediately revive the Rentrak name. The price of $70m is less than 10% of what Comscore paid for the company ten years ago, but Advaya has ambitious plans for the legendary brand.
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Ipsos has launched a platform called Product Studio, developed with input from global consumer goods manufacturers and using a combination of AI, data science and insights experience to accelerate and enhance product testing.
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Data quality specialist Rep Data has announced another acquisition - this time OWL Solutions, a survey programming company which supports fieldwork in healthcare and other sectors, often with complex builds.
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London-based gaming and virtual worlds insights and analytics specialist GEEIQ has raised $6.8 million in funding, with which to accelerate product development, grow partnerships and support expansion into new verticals and territories.
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First-party data company Dynata has appointed Dana Sergenian Hingtgen as Senior Vice President, Sales, focusing on brand clients in North America. More
Texas-based market intelligence company Futurum Group has bought Aptiviti, Inc., the parent company of Enterprise Technology Research (ETR); and will combine the latter's well-established predictive quant data engine with its own expertise, media properties and global intelligence platform. More
Ampere Analysis, a media data and analytics platform headquartered in London, has acquired Warsaw-based PlumResearch, a specialist in global streaming audience analytics; and has itself received a majority investment from private equity firm Goldenpeak. Financial terms were not disclosed. More
San Francisco firm Exa Labs Inc. has raised $250m in Series C funding, at a valuation of $2.2 billion, for use in training the next generation of its models and scaling its AI-native search engine and web data retrieval platform. It will also continue hiring for senior roles. More
Media intelligence provider Samba TV has launched a platform called 'Project Gravity,' which matches digital profiles to off-line consumer data from sources such as email lists, to allow ad targeting. 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
Panels and research tech firm Borderless Access has appointed Arun Kumar as Vice President, Business Development for APAC. He brings more than 22 years of experience in market research and data services in the region. More
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