- Holding Companies Go On Social Agency Shopping Spree
MAD, Steve McClellan - Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Publicis has just acquired Italian social media shop Ambito5. That deal follo ...
- Media, M&A Deals Explode, Deal Volume Hits Nearly $51B
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Media and marketing deal-making nearly tripled its dollar volume in the thi ...
- News Corp. Buys Move, Ups Online Real Estate Biz
MediaDailyNews, Erik Sass - Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is bolstering its real estate business with t ...
- Study: 62% of CMOs Categorize Agencies As Vendors
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Monday, September 29, 2014
As if you needed yet another data point to shock you o ...
- AOL, Yahoo: Starboard Investor Pushes For Merger
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, September 26, 2014
AOL worked so hard to rebuild its reputation under CEO Tim Armstro ...
- Clearstream Acquires EngageHD, Appoints Bennett As CTO
Real-Time Daily, Tyler Loechner - Thursday, September 25, 2014
Clearstream, a video ad targeting platform that uses real-time bidding (RTB), ...
- HootSuite Secures Another $60 Million
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Mark Walsh - Thursday, September 25, 2014
HootSuite may have to change its name to LootSuite. The social med ...
- Zefr Buys Engodo, Enlarges Social Ecosystem For Brands
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Zefr -- which helps brands and publishers manage their video assets acro ...
- Comcast-Time Warner Deal: Everybody's Got Something To Say
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 25, 2014
Critics and proponents are currently having their say about the proposed $ ...
- Apple Buys Magazine Publishing Platform Prss
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Apple just bought digital magazine platform maker Prss. The Dutch company’s co ...
- First 'Breck Girl' Eileen McKenna Dies of Cancer at 61
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Well, this is sad. Eileen McKenna, a senior account manager at McCa ...
- Millennial To Buy Nexage For $108M, Bolsters Programmatic
Mobile Marketing Daily, Mark Walsh - Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Aiming to ramp up its programmatic trading technologies, mobile ad firm Millenni ...
- VML Agrees to Buy Shanghai Social Media Agency
MAD, Steve McClellan - Monday, September 22, 2014
The acquisition will make Shanghai VML's second-largest operation next to Kansas Cit ...
- Millennial Acquires Nexage: What's Next For The 2 Exchanges?
RTBlog, Tyler Loechner - Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Mobile ad firm Millennial Media on Tuesday announced its plans to acqui ...
- Marc USA Acquires Results:Digital
MAD, Larissa Faw - Friday, September 19, 2014
The M&A deal bolsters Marc's digital offering and provides an operational ba ...
- SMG Appoints Sue Frogley To New Global Commercial Director Role
MAD, Steve McClellan - Friday, September 19, 2014
Frogley joins the Publicis Groupe-owned Starcom MediaVest Group from Dentsu Aegis Med ...
- Y&R Sets Up Shop In Fast-Growing Mongolia
MAD, Steve McClellan - Friday, September 19, 2014
The agency, in partnership with sibling firm TNS, is taking control ...
- Road To Rio: WPP Extends Its Brazilian Shopping Binge
MAD, Steve McClellan - Thursday, September 18, 2014
The holding company has just completed its fourth Brazilian M&A deal th ...
- This Time It's A Marketer Telling Other Marketers To Stop Calling Agencies Vendors
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Thursday, September 18, 2014
Attention marketers. And by marketers, I mean clients. You know, you gu ...
- WPP Takes 'Significant Minority Stake' In New Hollywood Digital Studio
MAD, Steve McClellan - Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Founded by filmmakers Jon Avnet, his son Jake and Rodrigo Garcia, t ...
- Native Exchange Sharethrough Acquires UK-Based Content Platform VAN
Real-Time Daily, Tyler Loechner - Thursday, September 18, 2014
Sharethrough, a native ad exchange headquartered in San Francisco, on Thursday announc ...
- Advocates Urge FCC To Block AT&T's Merger With DirecTV
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Advocacy group Public Knowledge is warning the Federal Communications Commission that AT&T ...
- Game On: Microsoft Buys Minecraft Looking To Build Windows Mobile
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Microsoft has agreed to pay $2.5 billion for the Swedish game-development compa ...
- Dentsu Won't Buy Interpublic or Havas
MAD, Steve McClellan - Thursday, September 11, 2014
Dentsu EVP Tim Andree told attendees at a New York investor conferen ...
- Colenso BBDO is the Most Creative Agency in the World
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Thursday, September 11, 2014
Congratulations to Colenso BBDO. The agency has been named the smartest creati ...
- New Programmatic Player In Town: ADS' Conversant Buy Beefs Up Epsilon
RTBlog, Tyler Loechner - Friday, September 12, 2014
Alliance Data Systems (ADS), which owns Epsilon, this week announced that ...
- Press+ Acquired, Merges With Piano Media
MediaDailyNews, Erik Sass - Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Two of the world's largest third-party providers of online paywalls are joini ...
- Publicis Groupe's Leo Burnett Acquires Turner Duckworth
MAD, Larissa Faw - Monday, September 8, 2014
The branding and design firm will retain its existing management team a ...
- Rocket Fuel Finalizes [x+1] Acquisition
Real-Time Daily, Tyler Loechner - Friday, September 5, 2014
Rocket Fuel on Friday announced the completion of its acquisition of [x+1 ...
- For IPG Placed Is The Place To Be
MAD, Steve McClellan - Thursday, September 4, 2014
The holding company has entered into a strategic partnership with the Seattle-bas ...