- Vibenomics, a location-based audio out-of-home ad and experience company, announced it raised $6 million in Series A funding
Vibenomics, a location-based audio out-of-home ad and experience company, announced it raised $6 million in Series A funding to further its momentum in the advertising market. This round of funding was led by BIP Capital. Including this funding round, the company has raised a total of $13.5 million.
This funding round will largely support the expansion of convenience stores and grocery retailers in the Vibenomics Audio OOH Advertising Marketplace.
By integrating licensed background music playlists and commercial spots paid for by brand advertisers, Vibenomics helps businesses with physical locations enhance store sales, enrich the customer experience, and receive a share of advertisement revenue.
The company enables brands to talk to shoppers directly at the point-of-sale inside thousands of retail locations through Audio OOH advertising, impacting immediate purchase decisions.
The company has added over 100 brand advertisers in over 4,000 locations across 48 states, reaching over 150 million people. And the company provides a vehicle for retailers to monetize their private, physical-location airwaves to transform a legacy expense into a new profit center.
Along with the funding, Vibenomics recently welcomed several key brands to its customer base, including convenience store chain Kwik Trip and additional national retailers being announced in Q2.
Key Quotes:
“Our team is pioneering programmatic Audio OOH media and has emerged as a resounding success story of how a traditional ad medium committing to digital transformation can achieve significant growth in both revenue and share of ad spend. We will use this Series A investment to accelerate product development and scale go-to-market execution, building on the momentum we’ve already seen in only a short period of time.”
-Brent Oakley, co-founder and CEO of Vibenomics
“Vibenomics is a fresh new way to reach shoppers at the point of making purchase decisions. It has an amazing effect on both impulse items and brand preference within competitive categories.”
-Paul Iaffaldano, chief investment officer at BIP Capital
“When Vibenomics approached the Kwik Trip team, the technology and revenue model was something I’ve never seen in this space before. We typically see 8 million or more transactions a week in our stores and, with that amount of ears and eyes, we have a unique opportunity to impact buying choices. When I first took a deep dive into the Vibenomics model, I saw the potential to offset costs to the stores for in-store music and potentially generate ad revenue. The model itself made sense to me and the technology was clean as far as installation and logistics. Vibenomics has been a great partner in accommodating our business needs.”
-Mark Meisner, Director of Marketing and Advertising at Kwik Trip
