Internet Marketing Industry: Acquisitions
News Corp to sell Unruly to Tremor for a song and a board seat
News Corp will have a small stake of the video ad tech business, and Tremor will have exclusive outstream video sales rights with the...
The major deals and integrations that shaped technology for marketers in 2019
The marketing technology industry had a busy year, with nearly 250 mergers and acquisitions in the first six months alone....
With an eye on CTV (and Google), ad tech firms Rubicon Project and Telaria to merge
The combined sell-side platform will enable transactions on most digital ad formats, including connected...
What Cision’s acquisition signals for customers, martech industry
The company, which has been on an acquisition spree, will go private under Platinum Equity...
Content recommendation rivals Taboola, Outbrain to merge
The consolidated company will retain Taboola’s namesake, with Taboola founder Adam Singolda serving as...
McDonald’s latest tech move aims to bring voice-based, conversational ordering to the dining experience
McDonald's second tech acquisition this year indicates a move towards a tech-driven customer experience in the popular...
Mavrck acquires GroupHigh to increase its influencer search index tenfold
Mavrck plans to use GroupHigh's blog and social search platform to expand its offerings for SMBs....
WordPress parent company Automattic Inc. to buy Tumblr from Verizon: WSJ
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said the acquisition is the largest deal ever made by his company -- both in price and head count....
Microsoft acquires e-commerce advertising vendor PromoteIQ
The sponsored products platform will be a division of Microsoft Advertising....
What Amazon acquisition of Sizmek’s Ad Server and DCO business might mean for advertisers
The acquisition will give advertisers the ability to use Amazon’s data from searches and purchases to target audiences beyond its own...
Salesforce will acquire Salesforce.org for $300 million
Salesforce announces $300 million acquisition of Salesforce.org. The deal could drastically redefine the relationship between Salesforce and its...
Akamai buys identity provider Janrain
With Gigya now owned by SAP, marketers will deal with the two main, formerly independent identity providers as part of complementary...
Oath to become Verizon Media Group as telecom doubles down on umbrella brand
Since the its inception a year and a half ago, Oath has failed to compete with the likes of Google and Facebook in the digital ad...
How effective acquisition strategies can drive growth
A strategy anchored by a focus on verticals, market leadership and technology offers a pathway for companies in the performance marketing...
Forrester decides to buy SiriusDecisions
This latest expansion by the Cambridge-based research firm adds marketing, sales and product operational methodology, as well as the...
With Marketo mega-deal, Adobe’s reach just got a whole lot wider
At least one analyst said the acquisition "fundamentally resets the competitive playing field” for B2B martech buyers and...
Adobe to acquire Marketo for $4.75 billion
After Reuters reported last week a deal was in the works, the two companies confirmed the acquisition on...
Salesforce adds more intelligence with Datorama purchase
The AI-powered marketing analytics platform will help the CRM leader generate insights from multiple data...
Acxiom sells Marketing Solutions division to Interpublic, readies LiveRamp
As personal data for ad targeting becomes increasingly burdened with consent and other conditions, time will tell if Interpublic has made a good...
AT&T buys ad exchange AppNexus
Following the Time Warner purchase, this new acquisition positions the telco as a content and programmatic advertising...