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Advertisers can now use Vistar to activate both off-the-shelf and custom audiences built on T-Mobile’s first-party location and app data.

Broadsign may actually be building a platform that will make an attractive acquisition target down the road. And one of the major cross-platform Big Tech players feels like the most likely buyer.

T-Mobile may be considering an acquisition in the mobile data market; Google’s glitch shuts down ads for a weekend; and ad tech’s old guard is salivating over AI startups.

In light of T-Mobile’s plans to buy Vistar Media, Atmosphere TV’s business model shines a brighter spotlight on the grey area between connected TV and DOOH billboards.

M&A started off with a bang in 2025. T-Mobile bought Vistar Media, and The Trade Desk bought Sincera. With a special guest from LUMA Partners, Conor McKenna, we explore the rationale for these ad tech acquisitions.

On Monday, T-Mobile announced plans to acquire Vistar Media, an ad platform that specializes in digital out-of-home for roughly $600 million in cash.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. To The Core Nielsen is trimming its workforce – again – and by quite a lot this time, Ad Age reports. On Wednesday, the TV ratings giant announced plans to cut its global personnel by around 9% “in an effort to bring costs […]

The programmatic digital out-of-home (DOOH) market has been growing at a steady clip, and ad buyers are now looking at media quality metrics beyond audience reach and impressions. But assessing the quality of physical screens across a variety of real-world locations requires new mechanisms. To encourage more brands to enter the channel, programmatic DOOH platforms […]

Scroll through the articles on any site about advertising and technology, and you’re bound to run across enough Mad Men and Don Draper references to put you at risk of secondhand smoke. That’s understandable. It’s a helpful shorthand for distinguishing between the creative side of advertising – catchy slogans, beautiful imagery, emotional storytelling, product heroes – and the dominating world of algorithms, data segments and attribution models.

Smartify Media launched in 2020 as a digital out-of-home platform to allow small businesses in Boston to share real-time updates with customers during the pandemic. Now, the company is trying to create a retail media network with small businesses nationwide, like bodegas and other mom-and-pop shops, through its Small Business Revenue+ program.

Vibenomics announced a $12.3 million Series B round on Tuesday, led by Panoramic Ventures, bringing its total funding to just over $30 million. Vibenomics expects to grow its roster of 6,000 retail locations (just over half of which are grocery stores like Hy-Vee, QuikTrip, Kroger and GetGo) to more than 20,000 locations by the end of 2023.

Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Demand for digital signage is finally returning after a horrendous 2020. Vistar Media CEO Michael Provenzano shares an update on COVID’s impact on the category, including his company – a programmatic digital out-of-home provider.  “It was horrible,” Michael […]

After a tough year for the out-of-home industry, the world is starting to open up – and so are advertiser budgets. Digital out-of-home (DOOH) alone is projected to grow 20% next year, according to MAGNA. There are an estimated 1.25 million digital screens in the US across billboards, street furniture, service kiosks, screens in bars, […]

AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Michael Provenzano’s first startup was perfectly timed. Along with his cofounders, he developed one of the industry’s first demand-side platforms, Invite Media, and sold it to Google three years later in one of the most notable deals in the early days of programmatic. His second startup, […]

When the outdoor recreation retailer REI closed its shops for Black Friday, the biggest sales day of the year for many stores, it was testing brand appeal against strong short-term revenue, as well as its out-of-home (OOH) media and data services. REI has grown its OOH media from nothing two to three years ago to […]

  Billboards are lighting up with the promise of programmatic. Out-of-home (OOH) is projected to grow almost 12% in spend by 2020 – faster than any other traditional media – thanks to opportunities in digital, according to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. Digital OOH accounted for $2.7 billion in ad spend in the US […]

Here’s a potential new acronym for you: MOOH – that’s to say, mobile out-of-home. Digital OOH programmatic player Vistar Media launched an extension of its cross-screen offering Wednesday via a partnership with AirSage, a little-known Atlanta-based company that collects data on consumer location and population movement. AirSage captures and analyzes in the neighborhood of 15 […]

Jeremy Ozen and Michaael Provenzano are co-founders of Vistar Media. Along with former chief architect of Invite Media, Mark Chadwick, Ozen and Provenzano are the in the early stages of trying to crack the out-of-home (OOH) market with an exchange of sorts, and link it to the digital demand-side, which currently buys across PC-based display, […]