Observed Signal · Jun 18, 2026 · Partnership · Source: https://martechseries.com/feed/ · Impact: 3/5 · Sentiment: Positive
EDO Extends Investment-Grade Measurement to Roblox
EDO, the TV outcomes company, announced on June 18, 2026 that its syndicated, investment-grade outcomes measurement is being extended to gaming advertising through an inaugural partnership with Roblox. The integration allows brands to measure branded virtual events, in-game integrations, and standard ad campaigns on Roblox against EDO’s Convergent TV engagement benchmarks. EDO applies two adapted methodologies — an ad-driven Engagement Rate (ER) for video campaigns and an event-driven engagement analysis for branded moments — both built on its Vertical AI-powered framework. Roblox and EDO say the workbench enables advertisers to benchmark immersive gaming media alongside linear and streaming TV, providing consistent, cross-media outcomes data for media planning and optimization.
Establishes a standardized, cross-media measurement for immersive gaming inventory — enabling brands to benchmark gaming campaigns alongside TV and streaming, which could accelerate media planning and budget shifts into gaming.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- EDO announced its syndicated outcomes measurement will cover Roblox advertising (branded events, in-game integrations, and ad campaigns).
- EDO measures Roblox ads using two methodologies: an ad-driven Engagement Rate (ER) for video campaigns and an event-driven branded search lift analysis for events.
- EDO's measurement extends its Convergent TV benchmarks to immersive gaming, enabling like-for-like comparisons across linear, streaming TV, and gaming.
- Roblox is EDO's inaugural gaming outcomes measurement partner; EDO reported measuring campaigns across beauty, entertainment, streaming, and gaming in a Roblox pilot.
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EDO Launches ChatEDO on Amazon Bedrock for TV Measurement
EDO announced ChatEDO™, an agentic AI chat interface for Convergent TV measurement built using Amazon Bedrock. The product lets marketers query EDO’s investment-grade TV outcomes data in natural language without dashboards or SQL, leveraging a model-agnostic orchestration layer that can call multiple foundation models via Bedrock. EDO says it ingests more than 1 TB of Convergent TV advertising data daily and that its platform covers 128 trillion convergent TV impressions, 380 million linear TV airings and over 2.8 million TV creatives. EDO and AWS highlight Bedrock’s model choice, security, uptime and inference scaling as key enablers for enterprise deployment and real-time analytics.
EDO Launches Ad EnGage Optimize for Convergent TV
EDO announced Ad EnGage Optimize on June 4, 2026, an autonomous, AI-powered optimization suite for Convergent TV campaigns. Built on EDO’s decade of TV outcomes and ad-intelligence data, the product autonomously optimizes frequency, creative rotation, audience targeting, media planning and market-level allocations in-flight. EDO cites research showing that smarter frequency capping can free up to 35%+ of CTV impressions for reinvestment and that creative rotation optimizations across streaming and linear can yield ~20% performance gains. The Ad EnGage Optimize suite includes Frequency Optimizer, Media Plan Optimizer, Creative Rotation Optimizer, Audience/Geo Optimizer and an Agentic Integration for connecting to client AI workflows via EDO’s MCP layer. Company leaders Kevin Krim and Laura Grover are quoted describing the product’s role in turning outcomes measurement into actionable optimization.
Universal Quantum Raises Record $100M Series A
Universal Quantum, a University of Sussex spinout founded in 2018, has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round, described as the largest Series A for a UK-headquartered quantum firm. The company focuses on building fault-tolerant quantum computers with millions of error-corrected qubits. The round was co-led by DCVC and Firgun Ventures, with participation from EDBI, Integral GlobalTech, and others. Funds will accelerate global expansion in the US, Japan, and Germany, and support technology development. The company has contracts with the German government and partnerships with Rolls-Royce. Universal Quantum's technology includes the iQPU chip and UQConnect interconnect, aiming for scalable, room-temperature quantum computing.
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