Ether Data · The new way to target

AI agents are the new media buyers. We give them the World Context.

Agentic advertising runs on real-world context: what every place is like and who is around, hour by hour. We feed it to your agents so they find your next customers, with no cookies and no device IDs.

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A weekday office cell
When the workforce is physically present, hour by hour.
168 hours · one cell · one week
The shift

Agents are buying your media now. They can only target what they understand.

Agentic advertising is here.

Agents now decide who to reach, in real time, with no cookies and no device IDs. The IAB Tech Lab calls it agentic advertising. An agent is only as good as what it knows about the real world, and the real world is exactly what we provide.

IAB Tech Lab · Agentic Audiences
Two ways in

One dataset. Two ways to use it.

The structured layer is for explainable targeting: audiences you can open up, audit, and defend to a client. The embedding layer is for performance: the model learns what converts and optimizes toward sales, leads, and cost per action. Both come from the same context.

168 + 168 Foundation · tabular · explainable

Explainable targeting you can defend

Who is around, by sector, hour by hour. It lands as plain BigQuery columns. You can audit every number, show a client exactly why an audience is what it is, and trace it back to public records.

  • FOUNDATIONThe free demographic floor. 250 Census attributes projected to every cell.
  • 168The hourly layer. Workforce, activation, and commute gravity, every hour of the week.
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168 VE + Master Embeddings Model · vectors · performance

Performance the model drives on its own

The same context, compiled into a vector. 168 VE gives your model a learned representation of where and when, so it learns what actually converts and optimizes toward sales, leads, and cost per action. The Master Embeddings Model brings the data you already own into the same latent space, so your vectors and ours speak one language.

  • 168 VEThe vector embedding of real-world context. Where and when first, everything else over time.
  • MEMThe Master Embeddings Model. Associates 168 VE with your first-party, creative, and taxonomy vectors.
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How 168 VE works

Three steps, no black box.

The same idea the rest of the industry is adopting for content and audiences, applied to the real world. What we learn is the cohorts of buyers inside every place and hour.

01

Read every cohort

Every place at every hour gets read for the cohort that is there: who they are and how they behave, from years of history out to a forward forecast.

02

Cohorts that behave alike

168 VE learns the complex cohorts inside every context, the full mix of who is there and how they behave. The cohorts that act like your buyers sit close together, even in cities it was never calibrated on.

03

Line it up with your world

The Master Embeddings Model brings the data you already own into the same space: your first-party audiences, your creative, the IAB taxonomy. Your cohorts and ours end up speaking one language, ready for any screen or bid.

Turn conversions into reach

Bring your conversions. We find the next ones.

Send us a file of what already worked: sales, leads, or store visits, each with a time and a place. We learn the cohort behind your best customers, find the cohorts that behave like them across the country, and hand back the places and hours to reach them. No device IDs, no personal data.

1

You send what converted

A simple file: each sale, lead, or visit with when and where it happened. Nothing personal leaves your side.

2

We place it in context

168 VE turns each conversion into context, and the Master Embeddings Model lines it up against the rest of the country to learn the cohort your best buyers share.

3

You get the next ones

The cohorts that behave like your best customers, and the places and hours to reach them, ranked and ready to run. Expand into new markets and keep the lead pipeline full at a lower cost per action.

Then put them to work

The same audiences, activated across every screen.

Times Square · Tuesday

At 2pm it is a finance and office crowd. By 11pm it is hospitality and tourism.

168 tells you which, by sector, by hour, with no device IDs. Buy the right screens at the right hours, and prove the audience from the same table.

DOOH & OOH

Buy the screens your lookalikes pass, by hour and by sector. Audience verification without device IDs.

Programmatic & pDOOH

A pre-bid context signal that holds in markets where panels have gone thin.

Publisher yield

Context for non-addressable inventory, mapped to the taxonomy buyers already use.

Performance

Feed 168 VE to your bidder so it optimizes toward sales, leads, and cost per action.

Proof

Built on one city. Holds up in cities it never saw.

0.7%-0.7{\scriptstyle\%}
Chicago taxi gap. No local data used.
3.8%-3.8{\scriptstyle\%}
San Francisco bikeshare gap. No local data used.
0.780.78
R2R^2 on nighttime lights, on a held-out region with no local data.
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Device IDs, panels, or location licenses required.

The priors were built on public New York data, then tested against two cities they were never calibrated on. Five independent public sources with no shared lineage, so the validation stays independent. The dataset is built without device data, which means it strengthens as privacy tightens instead of breaking.

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On Google BigQuery Marketplace

Already in your stack. Pay through Google Cloud.

168 is a verified vendor on Google BigQuery Marketplace. Subscribe in a few clicks and it bills through the GCP account you already use. Nothing to move: query it right where your data lives, and your own data never leaves your side.

168 Foundation

Free, forever

250 Census attributes per cell. The free context floor, on BigQuery Marketplace, no signup.

168

$1,500 / metro / mo

The full hourly context for any US metro. Every cell, every hour of the week. Manhattan is free.

168 VE

Enterprise

The vector embedding of real-world context. A learned representation your model queries directly.

Master Embeddings Model

Enterprise

Brings your own data into our latent space and aligns it with 168 VE, so your vectors and ours speak one language.

Give your agents the World Context.

The new way to target. Start free with Manhattan, on Google BigQuery Marketplace.

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