Taboola vs The COOL Company

AdExchanger Podcast: Infillion-Foursquare, Taboola-Dianomi, WarnerMount Merger

This AdExchanger podcast episode discusses two ad tech acquisitions from last Friday: Infillion's acquisition of Foursquare, adding location data to its ad tech stack, and Taboola's acquisition of Dianomi, targeting the finance vertical. Editor-in-Chief Allison Schiff provides rationale and potential synergies. The episode also covers the Warner Bros.-Paramount merger, now dubbed 'WarnerMount', as the major antitrust hurdle was resolved when California and 11 other states settled their lawsuit. Paramount had threatened to leave California, which pressured the settlement. A new legal challenge emerged but is seen as less formidable. The discussion highlights the strategic moves in ad tech consolidation and the significant regulatory scrutiny on major media mergers.

• Infillion acquired Foursquare, adding location data to its ad tech stack.
• Taboola made an offer to acquire ad network Dianomi to target the finance vertical.
• California and 11 other states settled an antitrust lawsuit against the Warner Bros.-Paramount merger.

PolyAI, Taboola, Contentful, Docusign Win 2026 Digiday Tech Awards

The 2026 Digiday Technology Awards recognized companies leveraging AI and automation to enhance personalized experiences, targeting, and performance. PolyAI won Best AI Tool for its agentic dialog platform, which powers SafeRide Health's AI agent 'Steven', reducing speak-to-human rates from 55% to 2%. Taboola's Adam Singolda was named Technology Founder of the Year for launching DeeperDive, a conversational AI platform for publishers. Contentful and Docusign won Best Personalization & A/B Testing Platform, with Docusign using Contentful Personalization to launch tailored homepages across 20 audience segments, reaching 6.19 million monthly active profiles by March 2026. The awards span categories like affiliate marketing, agentic AI, CDPs, and clean rooms.

• PolyAI won Best AI Tool for its agentic dialog platform, with SafeRide Health's AI agent 'Steven' managing 80% of inbound calls.
• Adam Singolda, founder and CEO of Taboola, was named Technology Founder of the Year for DeeperDive.
• DeeperDive generates nearly three times more revenue per user for publishers.

Taboola Launches Realize ID

Taboola has launched Realize ID, a new cookieless identity solution for the open web, announced on September 23, 2026. The solution unifies usage, advertising, and conversion signals from its ecosystem to predict purchase intent, integrating data from publisher and advertiser activities such as content consumption, search terms, ad interactions, and conversions. Realize ID supports hashed email addresses from CRMs, custom identifiers, and over 15 data platform integrations, with clean room matching planned. This launch is part of Taboola's strategy to expand from native advertising to performance display, following its platform launch and opening to external AI applications. The open web identity market remains fragmented with competitors like NetID, Utiq, ID5, EUID, and Ramp ID.

• Taboola launched Realize ID, a cookieless identity solution for the open web, on September 23, 2026.
• Realize ID combines usage, ad, and conversion signals to predict purchase intent.
• Supports hashed email addresses, custom identifiers, and over 15 data platform integrations.

The COOL Company AI Challenge Finds 83% Fail to Identify AI Ads

The COOL Company's AI Challenge finds that 83% of consumers fail to identify AI-generated ads as AI reshapes advertising.

The COOL Company AI Challenge Finds 83% Fail to Identify AI Ads

The COOL Company's AI Challenge finds that 83% of consumers fail to identify AI-generated ads as AI reshapes advertising.

Omnichannel AI Breaks Down Agency Silos

The article describes how COOL AI, an omnichannel advertising platform from US ad tech umbrella The COOL Company, uses generative AI to create creatives, run media buys across channels, and perform attribution to optimise campaigns. The platform integrates creative automation and programmatic buying across search, social and programmatic (with integrations with Google and Meta) and plans to add CTV. Agency leaders say tools like COOL AI can relieve manual work, enable smaller markets or retention campaigns to be automated, and help restructure agency workflows by unifying formerly siloed teams. The article also highlights industry challenges such as show-level transparency for CTV buys and buy-side hesitancy around mid-tail CTV inventory.

• COOL AI is an AI-powered omnichannel advertising platform run by US ad tech umbrella group The COOL Company.
• The COOL Company is an amalgamation of multiple businesses: Insticator, COOL Media, Balihoo, OKO Digital and ADventori.
• COOL AI currently operates across search, social and programmatic via integrations with Google and Meta, with CTV slated to be added in the near future.