The solution transforms Crackle Connex’ audience insights, creation and modeling capabilities to expand client campaign reach, relevance and return on ad spend

TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) HAS announced a partnership between its marketing solutions business, TruAudience®, and Crackle Connex, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment’s (NASDAQ: CSSE) advertising sales division. TruAudience will help Crackle Connex create custom audiences from first-party “viewership” data and retarget viewers of Connected TV (CTV) campaigns at Redbox kiosks nationwide. 

TransUnion’s industry-leading audience insights, modeling and building solutions will enable Crackle and Redbox to:

  • Generate audience insights to score their first-party data and improve monetization strategies.
  • Extend audience reach beyond their known customers with advanced modeling capabilities.
  • Build custom audiences using persistent identity-based signals, instead of relying on cookies, device IDs or other unstable identifiers.

TruAudience, TransUnion’s marketing solutions business, transforms marketing and media effectiveness with an end-to-end solution suite integrating identity resolution and enrichment, consumer and media insights, data onboarding, omnichannel targeting, marketing mix modeling, and marketing attribution for brands, agencies, publishers and technology providers.

Redbox is the largest DVD rental service in the US, with approximately 40 million customer loyalty members across 29,000 kiosks in major retail locations nationwide. Crackle Connex was formed in April 2023 to help brands seamlessly integrate campaigns across AVOD, FAST, digital out-of-home kiosks, and through branded content.

To learn more about TruAudience marketing solutions, please click here.

About Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (Nasdaq: CSSE) provides premium content to value-conscious consumers. The company is one of the largest advertising-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) companies in the US, with three flagship AVOD streaming services: Redbox, Crackle, and Chicken Soup for the Soul. In addition, the company operates Redbox Free Live TV, a free ad-supported streaming television service (FAST), with nearly 180 FAST channels as well as a transaction video on demand (TVOD) service, and a network of approximately 29,000 kiosks across the US for DVD rentals. To provide original and exclusive content to its viewers, the company creates, acquires, and distributes films and TV series through its Screen Media and Chicken Soup for the Soul TV Group subsidiaries. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment is a subsidiary of Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC, which publishes the famous book series and produces super-premium pet food under the Chicken Soup for the Soul brand name.

Source:  TransUnion Press Release