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Virtue - The Agency Powered by VICE
GumGum is a scalable media platform, built on the belief that for ads to achieve maximum impact they should appear seamlessly within content where user attention is actively engaged. With access to billions of images across thousands of quality sites, GumGum is the largest in-image advertising provider for publishers and brands. Known for inventing the in-image category, GumGum`s patented technology overlays contextually relevant display ads across the lower portion of relevant photos. The result is higher viewability, engagement and lift in brand metrics than any other display advertising option available today. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with five additional offices around the US. Its investors include NEA, Upfront Ventures, First Round Capital and Crosscut Ventures.
LoopMe is the leading global pioneer in social mobile ad discovery for smartphones and tablets. With shareable, premium full-screen interstitials, rich media and video ad formats, LoopMe solves the problem of low click interactions and high cost per engagement, by ensuring maximum impact and higher customer value. LoopMe was built around real time data and artificial intelligence to optimize ad performance and improve value per engagement, offering better results, simply delivered. LoopMe’s data science team has won the artificial intelligence cup (KDD cup) twice and has built its artificial intelligence capabilities around leading advances in machine learning and deep learning. LoopMe maintains close relationships with leading academic institutions around maintaining best in class data optimization technology. Social endorsement empowers consumers to improve customer experience and results from mobile advertising. LoopMe’s social mobile ad solution enables consumers to feedback on ads (“like”, “stop” and “share”), increasing interaction rates, branded engagement and value for publishers and advertisers alike.
Based in London, New York, Mexico, Lagos and Paris, Konbini® is a new generation media platform bringing Millennials together since 2008. Konbini built a community around its 100% pop culture angle, before progressively expanding to include news and society topics. Now with over 80 million unique visitors and more than 2.5 million Facebook followers, Konbini`s success is proof that people under 30 have a voracious appetite for news and culture.
Within the Paris-based Publicis Groupe holding company, Publicis Worldwide is the largest global agency network with over 9,000 employees in more than 80 countries across 200+ offices. New York-based Publicis Kaplan Thaler is the flagship office of the North America network, which includes Riney in San Francisco, and Publicis and Publicis Modem offices in Toronto, Montreal, Seattle, Dallas, Indianapolis, Boise, Calgary and Windsor. Publicis was founded in Paris in 1926 by Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet. Fueled by Marcel's ambition, innovations and challenger spirit, Publicis has grown to be one of the most dynamic and progressive communications companies in the world.