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Validated is on a mission to enable the best decisions at every juncture of business. We do this by gathering enormous swathes of market data relevant to your company's objectives, sourced from multi-variate testing via digital advertisements, sentiment and competitive analysis, and more. Our customers reach reach actionable insights via our deep statistical analysis that help grow their business and gain a competitive edge. We're a small team with over twenty years of industry experience from companies like Meta, Reddit, and AWS. Since being founded in mid-2023, we've booked revenue and accumulated an impressive waiting list of potential customers. We're institutionally funded by among the most venerated venture capital and angel investors. In 2024, we're embarking on our next stage of growth on the road to cracking an enormous market opportunity. We're building out a scalable platform, penetrating new markets, and unlocking even more value to our customers. We're putting our funding to good use by building out a world class engineering, operations, and business team, so if what you've read gets you excited, we hope you'll have a look at our job listings!

Cross Screen Media is a marketing analytics and software company helping brands plan/buy television and digital advertising together. Think Moneyball for advertising, but instead of comparing shortstops we are comparing Dancing with the Stars to Facebook in terms of the best use of our clients next advertising dollar.

Video marketing is broken. Everyone is "telling their story". Everyone's posting noise. Every commercial is the same. Most of it is being ignored with the quiet, brutal efficiency of a thumb swipe. We make video marketing that works. And we have a ton of fun doing it. We work with brands that know video matters but don't just want to make noise. To help them not just "tell their story" but to tell the right story. We do four things really well: Performance ads (commercials), brand films, strategic social video content, and streaming entertainment. Campaigns reverse-engineered from what they're supposed to do: sell, entertain, educate, feel things.