Ad-Lib raises $6million to disrupt digital ad creative production with AI-driven platform

bdaily | November 18, 2019

Senior leadership team and EMEA operations to be bolstered; New York office to open in Q4 London, UK, 18 November 2019: Ad-Lib, a UK-based marketing technology SaaS platform that helps global brands manage and automate the production and activation of creative assets in their digital advertising worldwide, today announced it has closed $6million in Series A funding from San Francisco-based Fog City Capital. Ad-Lib will use the funding to further strengthen its technology platform, which uses AI to streamline creative ad production workflows, automate digital asset creation and optimise creative performance across display, video, social, native and mobile. The company will also build out its senior leadership team, expand further in EMEA and APAC and launch its US headquarters in New York.

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