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SingTel Mulls Amobee Divestiture; Vungle Acquires Playable Startup TreSensa

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Swan Song? Telcos rushed headlong into the ad tech business, but will they survive it? Verizon washed its hands of ad tech with the sale of Verizon Media to Apollo; And Xandr is in limbo following AT&T’s mega-spinoff of WarnerMedia. But three’s a trend.... Continue reading »

by AdExchanger // May 20th, 2021 //

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Amobee CEO Kim Perell’s Resilient Rise To The Top

This is the latest installment in "PII," a series featuring the talent that makes the wheels turn in our data-driven advertising world. Kim Perell learned at a young age that it’s OK to fail. “Failure is a great opportunity to learn,” she said. “I saw my parents fail [when I was] growing up. It was more... Continue reading »

by Alison Weissbrot // May 18th, 2018 //

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Singtel's Amobee Snaps Up Turn For $310M

Another independent demand-side platform (DSP) has found its big enterprise home. Amobee, a digital marketing firm owned by Singaporean telco Singtel, has agreed to buy Turn at a $310 million value. Read the release. Stakeholders expect the acquisition to close within 45 days. Amobee, known for its mobile capabilities, had worked with numerous buying platforms before, said... Continue reading »

by Ryan Joe // February 22nd, 2017 //

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How Multiple Suitors Courted TubeMogul

Adobe might have won TubeMogul’s hand in marriage, but there were several other strategic acquirers involved in the courtship. According to a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing dated Nov. 18, TubeMogul’s sales process really began last November. Up until the time Adobe agreed to acquire the DSP in mid-November, 16 entities – including... Continue reading »

by Kelly Liyakasa // November 29th, 2016 //

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Amobee Begins Its Journey To Expand From Mobile To All Things Digital

Why did Singapore Telecommunications’ ad tech subsidiary Amobee buy Adconion and Kontera for a combined $385 million? For Amobee CEO Mark Strecker, it was a matter of moving Amobee’s focus from mobile advertising to digital advertising. And the company needed Kontera’s technological assets and Adconion's business organization to accomplish that. Once integrated, Amobee will have... Continue reading »

by Ryan Joe // June 16th, 2014 //

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Why SingTel Sings For Ad Tech

Singapore Telecommunications' intent to acquire cross-channel ad platform Adconion (at a $235 million valuation) and ad network Kontera (at a $150 million valuation), on behalf of its mobile ad solutions subsidiary Amobee, is yet another example of a telco diving deeper into ad tech. SingTel’s announcement arrives less than a month after news broke of... Continue reading »

by Ryan Joe // June 11th, 2014 //

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Amobee: Mobile RTB Has Momentum, But Is Not For Everyone

Last March, Singapore-based telecom SingTel acquired mobile ad platform Amobee for $321 million. Since then Amobee has been developing its mobile real-time bidding capabilities as a way to broaden it’s service offerings across Asia and Latin America. We spoke with Trevor Healy, Amobee’s CEO, about how the Redwood City, CA-based company has updated its focus.... Continue reading »

by David Kaplan // November 7th, 2012 //

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