ITV increases investment in InfoSum
January 24, 2023
ITV has announced a further investment in data technology company InfoSum, increasing ITV’s investment by 50 per cent of its original amount.
The investment comes following the announcement of the launch of Planet V 2.0, the newly updated version of ITV’s premium advanced advertising platform, and the launch of the new Matchmaker advertising product which allows retail advertisers to enhance their VoD targeting by availing of the audience intersection between ITV’s registered first-party audience and shopper data from partners Boots and Tesco’s dunnhumby. Both of which, as well as ITV’s existing Data Match product, utilise InfoSum’s technology.
Brian Lesser, Chairman and CEO of InfoSum, said: “As an invaluable and longstanding partner, ITV and InfoSum are joined by a common vision for enabling secure data collaboration. ITV is an innovator that drives real change across the media landscape. Starting with its pioneering use of privacy-first data collaboration in Planet V and, more recently, retail media with the launch of the Matchmaker product alongside Tesco and Boots. With ITV’s additional investment, we are thrilled to further solidify our close partnership and all that is to come.”
Rhys Mclachlan, ITV Director of Advanced Advertising, said: “Our InfoSum Datamatch product has been developing nicely and in 2023 will be moving out of Adlabs, our innovation space, and instead become a scaled ‘always-on’ feature of our addressable offering. In addition, Matchmaker, our InfoSum facilitated retail media product announced last Autumn, is already over-subscribed for our pilot phase with more than ten brands looking to work with us on the prototype. InfoSum is a critical part of ITV Commercial’s innovation and addressable proposition and an increased stake in the business ensures that we’re securing our own futures.”