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Aimia is a data-driven marketing and loyalty analytics company. We provide our clients with the customer insights they need to make smarter business decisions and build relevant, rewarding and long-term one-to-one relationships, evolving the value exchange to the mutual benefit of both our clients and consumers. With about 2,300 employees across 15 countries, Aimia partners with groups of companies (coalitions) and individual companies to help generate, collect and analyze customer data and build actionable insights. We do this through our own coalition loyalty programs such as Aeroplan in Canada, Nectar in the U.K., and Air Miles Middle East, and through provision of loyalty strategy, program development, implementation and management services underpinned by leading products and technology platforms such as the Aimia Loyalty Platform – Enterprise and Aimia Loyalty Platform – SaaS, and through our analytics and insights business, including Intelligent Shopper Solutions. In other markets, we own stakes in loyalty programs, such as Club Premier in Mexico and Think Big, a partnership with Air Asia and Tune Group. Our clients are diverse, and we have industry-leading expertise in the fast-moving consumer goods, retail, financial services, and travel and airline industries globally to deliver against their unique needs.
Likeable Local offers a software solution that allows small businesses to create, enhance and manage their social media presence. Likeable Local was founded in 2012 as a spin-off of Likeable Media, a highly successful social media marketing firm, and has a fully developed product that integrates with Facebook, Twitter, and more social media websites. Our software is sold on a monthly subscription basis, meaning a no-contract commitment from our clients. We believe our product is too successful to leave. Likeable Local has strategic vertical partners such as Henry Schein and Jewelers of America that help better the product for their customers. Likeable Local will happily work with any small business of any size to help them achieve their social media marketing goals.
We were founded by Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG) in 2007 to manage all of its global media related assets. Today that means we manage and invest $37 billion in global media on the behalf of our clients, employ over 7,500 diverse and daring marketing communication specialists worldwide and operate our company businesses in more than 127 countries. A proven entity in helping clients maximize business results through integrated, intelligence-driven marketing strategies, IPG Mediabrands is committed to driving automated buying, pay for performance and digital innovation solutions through its network of media agencies including UM, Initiative, BPN, ORION Holdings and ID Media. Its roster of specialty service agencies, including MAGNA GLOBAL, Ansible, Mediabrands Audience Platform (MAP), Mediabrands Publishing, IPG Media Lab, Ensemble, and Identity offer technologies and industry moving partnerships that are recognized for delivering unprecedented bottom line results for clients.
Founded by veteran communication professional Cynthia S. Hudson, HudsonLake represents best-in-class strategic, crisis and transformative workplace communications. Our clients gain hands-on senior-level counsel, access to a full suite of communication and creative services, and unparalleled depth and breadth of experience. Clients most often turn to HudsonLake to manage multifaceted, complex and highly sensitive initiatives requiring a myriad of communications services from a multitude of vendors.
Virool is a leading video distribution platform that allows anyone to promote a video hosted on YouTube. Virool has already helped thousands of video ad campaigns from companies including Turkish Airlines, Intel, Sony, Coca-Cola, Samsung, Anheuser Busch and Mitsubishi. Virool ActivView products are designed to drive engagement and go beyond the view. Founded in 2012, Virool leverages a growing network of more than 35,000 publishers across websites, blogs, social networks and mobile applications. To date, the company has raised $6.62M in seed funding from a collection of top VC firms and angel investors. It is the biggest seed investment that any Y-Combinator graduate has ever received.