GroundTruth sees rise in global demand for location data

GroundTruth sees rise in global demand for location data

Global location tech company GroundTruth (formerly xAd) has seen a 35% QoQ revenue growth as major brands like L’Occitane and Timberland put more budget towards location-based marketing. Following their acquisition of WeatherBug, GroundTruth have won 35 new Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) since the start of 2017. As global interest continues to develop and in the […]

L’Occitane mobile location campaign lights up high street

L’Occitane mobile location campaign lights up high street

L’Occitane and ThreePipe utilised xAd’s Blueprints technology to draw polygons around specified stores identified as popular stores across UK high streets. Targeting those who were considering gifts for occasions such as Mother’s Day, L’Occitane used proximity based targeting to drive store visitations, sales and brand engagement. Using xAd’s tech, target groups were identified from gathered […]

Location Player xAd Acquires WeatherBug, Raises $42.5M

Location Player xAd Acquires WeatherBug, Raises $42.5M

Location-based mobile ad network xAd has acquired WeatherBug, the companies said on November 15. WeatherBug operates a live weather website and app with more than 20 million unique users, as well as a network of more than 10,000 private automated weather stations across the country. It’s a page out of IBM’s book. Big Blue bought […]

Taco Bell unwraps real-time location data to serve relevant mobile messaging

Taco Bell unwraps real-time location data to serve relevant mobile messaging

Taco Bell is one of the brands leveraging xAd’s new MarketPlace Discovery platform to gain more insight into customers’ foot traffic behaviors, exhibiting the importance of tapping real-time data to serve consumers the right message at the right time. Taco Bell is using the real-time mobile location intelligence platform to uncover time-of-day as well as […]