Taboola vs The COOL Company

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

In dieser AdExchanger-Podcast-Folge werden zwei AdTech-Akquisitionen vom letzten Freitag besprochen: die Übernahme von Foursquare durch Infillion, die Standortdaten zum AdTech-Stack hinzufügt, und die Übernahme von Dianomi durch Taboola, die auf die Finanzvertikale abzielt. Chefredakteurin Allison Schiff erläutert die Beweggründe und mögliche Synergien. Zudem wird die Fusion von Warner Bros. und Paramount, inzwischen 'WarnerMount' genannt, behandelt, da das größte kartellrechtliche Hindernis ausgeräumt wurde: Kalifornien und elf weitere Bundesstaaten legten ihre Klage bei. Paramount hatte zuvor mit dem Verlassen Kaliforniens gedroht, was den Vergleich begünstigte. Eine neue rechtliche Herausforderung wird als weniger gewichtig eingestuft. Die Diskussion beleuchtet strategische Schritte in der AdTech-Konsolidierung und die erhebliche regulatorische Kontrolle von Medienfusionen.

• Infillion hat Foursquare übernommen und erweitert damit seinen AdTech-Stack um Standortdaten.
• Taboola hat ein Angebot zur Übernahme des Ad-Netzwerks Dianomi unterbreitet, um die Finanzvertikale zu erschließen.
• Kalifornien und elf weitere Bundesstaaten haben ihren Kartellrechtsstreit gegen die Warner Bros.-Paramount-Fusion beigelegt.

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.