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Hearts & Science Adds Marketing Technology Division; Roku Haggles With Broadcasters

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hearts & Science & Mar Tech Hearts & Science is launching a mar tech division with more system integrator capabilities. “And in doing so the agency hopes to beat back increased competition from consulting firms offering similar services,” The Wall Street Journal reports. The... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // February 13th, 2020 //
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Streaming Keeps Growing Like Crazy; Omnicom Gears Up For A Data-Related Acquisition

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Subscription Overload? The amount of time consumers spend with media increased by one hour and 24 minutes between 2018 and 2019 to almost 12 hours per day – and that time continues to fragment across media channels as new content offerings hit the market,... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // February 12th, 2020 //
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The Year In M&A: Broadcasters And Brands Buy In, And Old-School Ad Tech Exits

This was a major year in ad tech deal making. Many deals were opportunistic or outright fire sales, as early programmatic players like Sizmek, Rocket Fuel and IgnitionOne reached the end of the line. Ad tech and data deals were helped by a surge among public company bellwethers The Trade Desk, Cardlytics, LiveRamp, Telaria and... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // December 23rd, 2019 //
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Disney Plus Finally Strikes A Deal With Amazon Fire; Advertisers Are Buying More Ad Tech

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. That’s Settled Disney reached a deal with Amazon to carry Disney Plus on Fire TV sets. The two companies were at an impasse on a distribution deal because Amazon was demanding a substantial percentage of the media giant’s ad revenue, The Wall Street Journal... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // November 11th, 2019 //
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Ad Tech M&A Is On The Upswing In 2019 As TV And PE Lead Consolidation

Advertising technology acquisitions are back in vogue. There were 86 ad tech deals during the first three quarters of 2019, almost double the M&A activity last year, according to a report published Monday by Results International Group, an investment advisory firm. Results International typically doesn’t break out ad tech for its overall marketing technology and... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // October 28th, 2019 //
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How Marketo Added $3 Billion In Two Years, And Why PE Thinks There’s More To Come

When Adobe acquired the B2B marketing company Marketo for $4.8 billion last week, investors pressed CEO Shantanu Narayen to explain the gulf between Adobe’s price tag and Wall Street’s valuation of Marketo two years ago, when Vista Equity Partners snapped it off the stock market for $1.8 billion. Private equity investors have shown they have... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // October 11th, 2018 //
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Will Ad Tech M&A Derail The Advertising ID Consortium?

Development of the Advertising ID Consortium, a shared cookie-based ID service for programmatic companies, has stalled as two of the key backers, AppNexus and LiveRamp, undertake protracted M&A processes. The consortium is still moving forward, according to sources with knowledge of the nonprofit group’s product development, but the already complicated politics of ‘co-opetition’ are exacerbated... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // September 13th, 2018 //
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AT&T Can Acquire Time Warner, District Court Rules

The Washington DC, District Court on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for AT&T’s $85 billion merger with Time Warner, a decision with far-reaching implications for AT&T and the media and advertising industries. Despite the hefty price tag, industry observers initially expected AT&T’s offer to breeze through under a corporate-friendly administration. The last time the Justice Department... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // June 12th, 2018 //
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PwC: Traditional Media Companies And Private Equity Are Big Q1 Acquirers

Advertising and marketing companies were leading acquirers in the media and telecom industries this quarter, according to PricewaterhouseCooper’s US Media and Telecommunications Deal Insights study released Thursday. Advertising and marketing firms led deal volumes for the quarter, representing 33% of the overall M&A activity in the media and telecom sectors. Deal volumes in marketing and... Continue reading »
by Alison Weissbrot // April 26th, 2018 //
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Why Ad Tech In Search Of An Exit Has Reason To Hope

Is opportunity fading for ad tech startups to go public or be acquired at a healthy premium? The answer is no, at least not for everyone, said Elgin Thompson, managing director of the technology investment advisory firm Digital Capital Advisors, at AdExchanger’s PROGRAMMATIC I/O in San Francisco last week. A look back at IPO filings... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // April 16th, 2018 //
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