LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Fullscreen announced the acquisition of Reelio, an influencer marketing platform using data-driven technology to help brands, agencies, and publishers effectively reach millennial and Gen Z audiences through their favorite creators on today’s leading digital platforms. Fullscreen’s General Manager Pete Stein will oversee the acquisition. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Effective immediately, the Reelio platform will be integrated into Fullscreen, building on the company’s existing influencer marketing capabilities and providing best-in-class services to its brand clients. Reelio’s technology offers data-driven automation and AI to connect brands and influencers, complementing what Fullscreen has already built and allowing the company to make the influencer marketing process automated, scalable, and streamlined from start to finish. Incorporating Reelio’s technology will allow Fullscreen’s clients to continue to achieve strong ROI and effectiveness with every influencer marketing campaign executed. Reelio’s existing clients will continue to have access to its platform, along with the full spectrum of Fullscreen brand services to deliver even more value.
“The integration of Reelio’s platform into our network brings us one step closer to building a complete solution for the future of brand marketing, which we believe will be social-first and content-driven,” said Pete Stein, General Manager, Fullscreen. “The strength of Reelio’s data, technology, and team will be a huge asset to our company, and we’re excited to work alongside them as we continue to enhance our influencer marketing offerings.”
The acquisition puts data science squarely at the heart of Fullscreen’s business in a way that will significantly benefit the company’s brand clients, as well as current and future creators in the Fullscreen network. The move will help marketers better understand the impact of influencer marketing programs and give them the tools to easily optimize and scale successful campaigns, which is critical in cutting through the noise to connect authentically and efficiently with younger audiences.
“Reelio, like Fullscreen, has a focus on quality and relevance over quantity on our platform, ensuring that brands discover talent who are a natural fit for their campaigns and will provide the highest ROI,” said Pete Borum, CEO and Co-Founder, Reelio. “Fullscreen excels at brand building, fostering long-term, meaningful relationships with creators, and creating relevant, high-quality impactful content, and we’re excited to innovate together.”
Following the acquisition, Fullscreen clients will have access to a full spectrum of influencer marketing offerings, including white glove, custom integrated marketing services and production, curated influencer marketing campaign management, direct self-service transactions with creators, and the ability to leverage Fullscreen’s influencer marketing platform to support their own in-house staff.
“We believe the future of marketing will be defined by the integration of data science and platform automation with world-class service,” continued Stein. “With this acquisition, Fullscreen now has the ability to offer the best service, data, and technology to advertisers, brands, and publishers.”
About Fullscreen
Fullscreen empowers talent and brands to build and monetize highly engaged, social-first audiences. The company is a global leader in social-first entertainment experiences serving creators, brands and consumers. As a leader in branded content and social marketing services, Fullscreen partners with major brands seeking to engage valuable, elusive youth audiences on social platforms through original entertainment, influencer marketing, multi-platform social content and targeted media through the Fullscreen Video Network. Serving a broad range of clients from offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Atlanta, Fullscreen’s rapidly growing brand marketing teams are defining the future of social-first, content-driven marketing.
About Reelio
Founded in 2012, Reelio introduced algorithms that connect brands with the right content partners, reaching the right audience at the right price. Their platform enables forecasting, workflow automation, optimization and reporting to provide valuable insights that result in scalable, predictable, measurable, and repeatable influencer marketing campaigns for brands.