Christian Dankl

Contextual intelligence platform Precise TV announced a $26 million investment from UK-based private equity investor LDC, which is part of Lloyds Banking Group.

In the digital age, we’re often reminded about how far we’ve come from our prehistoric internet past. A similar shift is happening in traditional advertising and the way consumers build relationships with brands, writes Christian Dankl, co-founder of Precise TV. Today, advertisers have much more insight into specific, data-driven relationships between brands and consumers.

Under COPPA, businesses can’t target ads based on the data of children under 13 years old. Toy manufacturers like WowWee need other ways to get their products in market via advertising, and after testing a YouTube campaign with contextual ad platform Precise TV, the promising results allude to the potential of contextual in targeting ads effectively without audience data, profiles or cookies.