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AdTech Startup Tomi Secures Seed Funding to Make Real Estate Ads Perform as well as E-Commerce

Tomi.ai | June 24, 2021

Real estate, automobile, and financial services all have lengthy and offline sales cycles, and digital advertising does not work well in these industries. Because the real-world assets remain offline, the temptation for advertisers is to buy leads and clicks, which may increase customer acquisition costs. People browse, but they mainly purchase offline.

Tomi, a new startup, intends to solve this problem by analyzing a user's activity on a company's website (through a tracking pixel combined with ad APIs and CRMs) to assist businesses in reaching customers more effectively in the manner of an e-commerce business.

It has already raised a $1 million initial round from Begin Capital and the Phystech Leadership Fund.

Tomi was founded by Konstantin Bayandin, a former senior director of digital marketing and technology at Compass and chief marketing officer at Ozon, called "Russia's Amazon." It competes with comparable AdTech firms such as Anytrack, Sociaro, Meetotis, Alytics, and Postclick.

The difference, according to Bayandin, is that Tomi "focuses on offline conversions and works with various ad channels, including Facebook, Instagram, and Google."

"Real-estate firms would love to use internet advertising to sell their inventory, but it turns out to be too costly and difficult," says Bayandin. In addition, people like browsing but rarely convert, and the majority of these transactions take place offline. As a result, real-estate clients are unsure of how to optimize for their real buyers. Tomi uses machine learning to examine how real buyers navigate the website and improve ad campaigns for conversions."

The context for all of this is that, with Apple discontinuing IDFA, Google intending to delete third-party cookies from its Chrome browser, and the newest iOS 14.5 update enabling users to opt-out of "personalized ads," the whole advertising industry is in flux, necessitating the development of new technologies. Tomi, according to Bayandin, is a member of this new wave of AdTech.

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New Research Reaffirms Billboards as Highly Effective Venue in Programmatic DOOH Advertising

GlobeNewswire | May 12, 2023

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The findings demonstrated: Billboards drove lift in awareness on 92% of CPG campaigns, 67% of financial services campaigns, 57% of retail campaigns and 83% of telco campaigns Billboards drove lift in consideration on 80% of CPG campaigns, 73% of financial services campaigns, 86% of retail campaigns and 75% of telco campaigns Billboards drove lift in intent on 82% of CPG campaigns, 58% of financial services campaigns, 69% of retail campaigns and 91% of telecommunications campaigns Vistar’s advanced suite of technology capabilities enable measurement for DOOH across both upper and lower funnel KPIs, such as awareness, consideration, intent and foot traffic. 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