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Audacity And Claritas Introduced New Enhanced Measurement Capabilities for Broadcast And Digital Audio

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At the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2025, Audacity and Claritas announce a partnership to deliver enhanced measurement capabilities for clients through a cross-platform multi-touch attribution solution for analyzing the impact of broadcast and digital audio campaigns.

Audacity is leveraging Claritas’ advanced broadcast radio measurement capabilities to give deeper insights into campaign performance, including audience engagement and content responsiveness. Clients will be able to optimize their total audio campaigns based on key performance indicators by market, creative, time of day, etc., to make data-driven decisions and realize better outcomes for their media investments.

The Audacity and Claritas solution will integrate broadcast radio spots into multiplatform campaigns that Claritas is measuring for Audacity clients, tracking reach and impression frequency for ads running on Audacity broadcast stations. 

Claritas will combine this data with census-level website activity, including site visits, purchases and form fills, analyzes it through a proprietary data science model. This model identifies incremental website activity driven by Audacy’s radio campaigns by comparing exposed and unexposed markets. These analytics will be delivered in near real-time for fast learning and opportunities to optimize campaigns quickly.

“Multi-platform audio campaigns that couple traditional radio and digital to deliver better outcomes for our advertiser partners’ audio investments and to their overall media plans,” said Paul Suchman, Chief Marketing Officer, Audacy. “By integrating Claritas’ advanced measurement methodology into Audacity’s analytics stack, we’ll equip our clients with even more actionable data on how their campaigns are performing and Audio’s impact on overall campaign results.”

“Audacity and Claritas have delivered an important breakthrough in advertising measurement, integrating broadcast and digital. The insights on who is converting based on Claritas ID Graph, combined with GenAI analysis, are immediately actionable,” said Rex Briggs, Chief AI Officer, Claritas. “We are enabling advertisers to bolster their return on investment while providing the strategic value audio advertising delivers o businesses.”

By offering precise measurements of audio campaign performance, Audacity and Claritas are enabling advertisers to bolster their return on investment while proving the strategic value audio advertising delivers throughout the marketing funnel.

Claritas Acquires ArtsAI

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Claritas, a data-driven marketing leader that leverages a proprietary identity graph to help marketers achieve superior ROI, announced the acquisition, which will integrate ArtsAI’s patented, performance-enhancing technology into Claritas’ all-in-one marketing solution will accelerate client success by enhancing users’ ability to predictably drive highly personalized and profitable campaigns. 

Claritas and ArtsAI collectively serve over 1,300 clients, including brands like Progressive and T-Mobile, agencies like Horizon, MediaCom, and Hearts & Science and publishers like iHeartMedia and SXM.

Claritas’ acquisition of ArtsAI is the fourth in a series the company has made during its mission-based, five-year transformation to become the top closed-loop service provider in the industry. Leveraging an industry-leading proprietary identity graph, Claritas addresses the massive multichannel marketing sector’s need for an independent, 3rd party suite of solutions that make it easy for agencies, publishers, and brands to identify ideal audiences, deliver effective multichannel engagements and optimize campaigns through a robust set of measurement solutions.

“We’ve spent the last five years transforming the Claritas business to expand and enhance our value proposition to better meet our customer’s evolving needs”, said Claritas CEO Mike Nazzaro. “We are hyper-focused on providing our clients with unparalleled ways to win, and the acquisition of ArtsAI helps achieve this objective. This acquisition will give us a significant advantage in the field of AI-based marketing measurement and optimization, and we fully expect it will help us continue and even increase the amazing growth we’ve experienced in the last five years.”

“Claritas’ acquisition of ArtsAI creates something very unique. The proprietary capabilities Claritas will now bring to the market provide the advantages of AI across the entire marketing lifecycle, from customer identification, and message delivery to campaign measurement and ROI optimization.” Says Jim Brennan, Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group. “The acquisition of ArtsAI will add new levels of intelligence that will deliver product advancements that do not exist today. It is another example of how Claritas continues to transform its business to meet the changing needs of marketers across all industries.”

“At Horizon Media, we are dedicated to delivering the best data-driven solutions for the brands we represent,” said Lauren Russo, EVP Managing Partner at Horizon Media. “Claritas’ acquisition of ArtsAI adds another layer of expertise & insights that we can leverage on behalf of our clients. Claritas is uniquely positioned through its identity graph to offer a single suite of solutions to help with industry-leading audience insights, campaign activation and attribution measurement.”

With the acquisition of ArtsAI, Claritas will be able to provide marketers with a one-stop marketing optimization solution that allows them to leverage artificial intelligence throughout the entire lifecycle of their multichannel marketing campaigns. For example, marketers can use the lightning-speed testing enabled by AI to measure how specific audiences respond to ads such as email, audio, CVT/OTT, or digital display in near real-time. They can then use that data to dynamically adjust audiences and messages to boost ROI.

“Combining the proprietary capabilities of Claritas and ArtsAI offers significant value for the marketplace,” says David Shiffman, EVP Research and Measurement and iHeart Media,” said David Schffman, EVP Research and Measurement at iHeartMedia.” This acquisition showcases Claritas’ commitment to evolving audio measurement and helps ensure that publishers and marketers have access to strong, independent, third-party measurement of audio advertising.”

“We are big believers in an open ecosystem and transparent third-party measurement,” said Keri Degroote, SVP of Sales Research & Analytics at SXM Media. “So we’re thrilled to see two of our key collaborators in Claritas and ArtsAI join forces to create an even stronger, more seamless option that will deliver for both our business and our clients.”

Claritas is owned by Carlyle Group, a global investment firm with deep industry expertise and $381 billion of assets under management as of March 31, 2023. Under the terms of the acquisition, management change/move details. The terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.