A couple of weeks back, we reported on a successful round of Series B funding for video data broker Iris.TV, with Intel at the helm of the $18 million stimulus. This follows Iris.TV expanding its offering from content recommendation tools to contextual video intelligence for advertisers, with the latter established by its Contextual Video Marketplace (CVM) product. We would have thought that contextual intelligence about video assets was nothing too new, but Iris.TV’s co-founder and CEO, Field Garthwaite, was keen to convince Faultline otherwise. The CVM marks the first platform upon which advertisers can simultaneously access video data covering the advertiser’s holy trinity of brand safety, contextual targeting, and post campaign reporting. Fragments of these datasets are often siloed within…