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NBCU Quietly Sold Snapchat Stake; Twitter CEO Dorsey Evades Ouster Attempt By Activist Investor

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Gone In A Snap NBCUniversal quietly sold its $500 million stake in Snapchat stock late last year to rebalance its portfolio toward streaming media. The broadcaster invested in Snapchat during its IPO three years ago to expand the network’s digital presence. Since then, NBCU... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // March 10th, 2020 //
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NBCU Wants To Learn From Sky: The US Is Behind On Addressable TV

NBC Universal and Sky, both owned by Comcast, announced this week that they’re combining inventory and targeting tools. The hope is to help global advertisers expand their reach to international markets across TV and digital. Audience Studio, NBCU’s data-driven media offering, is merging with Sky’s ad tech offering, AdSmart. The combined entity will be called... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // March 20th, 2019 //
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FTC Looks To Change; MDC Explores A Sale

Cold Shower For Market Power Big tech, are your ears burning? On Friday, the Federal Trade Commission held the second in an ongoing series of hearings digging into competition and consumer protection issues. The FTC is trying to update its enforcement and policy agenda in the face of fast-paced technological change. “Technology is no longer... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // September 24th, 2018 //
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With Fox Deal, Disney Gains Controlling Stake In Hulu

After weeks of buildup, Disney has finally pulled the trigger and will acquire several major assets from 21st Century Fox in a $52.4 billion all stock deal, announced Thursday. Those assets include 20th Century Fox’s film and TV studios, cable networks like FX and National Geographic, stake in foreign networks Star India and UK-based pay... Continue reading »
by Kelly Liyakasa // December 14th, 2017 //
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Sky Media’s Digital And Programmatic Efforts Take Flight

British broadcasting and telecom giant Sky is building for a future where digital and programmatic TV play on the same court. To do so, Sky, amid a $14.1 billion takeover by Twenty-First Century Fox, is investing in new media opportunities and ramping up on ad tech. To boost its presence on Facebook and YouTube, Sky just acquired... Continue reading »
by Kelly Liyakasa // April 12th, 2017 //
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Fox Bids To Acquire Sky For $14.1B

Twenty-First Century Fox revealed on Friday a preliminary bid to buy out the rest of British pay TV provider and telco Sky for $13.51 per share for a total of about $14.1 billion. Fox already owns a 39.1% stake in the company. In 2010, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. attempted to take over Sky (called British... Continue reading »
by Kelly Liyakasa // December 9th, 2016 //
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How British Telecom Sky Blueprints Video Investments

Sky Media, the advertising sales arm for British telecom and broadcaster Sky, sits at the crossroads of technology and strategic investment. A new partnership with multiscreen ad-delivery tool Yospace, unveiled last Wednesday, will support dynamic ad insertions in linear streams like sports, news and entertainment on both IP and OTT devices alongside Sky’s ad server,... Continue reading »
by Kelly Liyakasa // March 21st, 2016 //
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Sky Invests $10M In DataXu, With Eyes Toward Real-Time, Addressable TV

The British broadcaster Sky Media on Monday announced a $10 million investment in the DSP and DMP provider DataXu. Sky hopes the relationship will help it better understand programmatic advertising, said Jamie West, Sky Media’s deputy managing director, in a release. “The money substantiates the belief in each other’s companies,” said DataXu CRO Ed Montes... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // January 25th, 2016 //
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