- Q4 Media M&A Up, Digital Dominates Deals
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Media/marketing merger and acquisition deals and dollar volume rose 33% and 40 ...
- WideOrbit Acquires Castfire For On-Demand Monetization
MediaDailyNews, Erik Sass - Friday, December 26, 2014
WideOrbit, which provides advertising management software for media companies, is bolstering i ...
- Publicis Groupe Extends Sapient Tender Offer Deadline For A Second Time
MAD, Steve McClellan - Wednesday, December 24, 2014
The new deadline is Jan. 7. As of Dec. 23, nearly 8 ...
- Consolidation In Social Media Tech
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Possibly the only thing growing faster than social media usage is t ...
- Havas Acquires Formula
MAD, Steve McClellan - Monday, December 22, 2014
The PR and experiential agency, which is being rebranded Havas Formula, h ...
- Oracle Buys Datalogix In Quest To Be A Data Powerhouse
Real-Time Daily, Tyler Loechner - Monday, December 22, 2014
Oracle made its data play clear after acquiring DMP BlueKai earlier th ...
- WPP's Latest Latin America Shopping Spree
MAD, Steve McClellan - Friday, December 19, 2014
This week WPP acquired three Latin American firms including a market resear ...
- Comcast Merger With Time Warner Threatens Online Video Providers, Groups Argue
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 22, 2014
Comcast's proposed $45 billion merger with Time Warner, which will transform t ...
- Brandwatch Buys PeerIndex
Around the Net In Social Media & Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Social intelligence startup Brandwatch just acquired analytics firm PeerIndex for an undisclos ...
- Dentsu Aegis Buys Rockett Interactive
MAD, Steve McClellan - Tuesday, December 16, 2014
The Cary, NC-based attribution specialist will be integrated with iProspect and Rocke ...
- Posterscope Acquires OOH Plus, Launches Posterscope Latin America
MAD, Steve McClellan - Monday, December 15, 2014
Dentsu Aegis Network is expanding its already sizeable presence in Brazil wi ...
- InterContinental Books Kimpton Boutique Chain Of Hotels And Eateries For $430 Million
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, December 16, 2014
InterContinental Hotels Group, the U.K.-based web of 697,048 rooms in more th ...
- Cossette Seals Deal With BlueFocus Communications
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Monday, December 15, 2014
Last month, we reported Canadian Agency, Cossette, was in talks with Chine ...
- PetSmart Going Private In $8.7 Billion Deal
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Monday, December 15, 2014
In what is the largest private-equity deal of the year so fa ...
- Mega-Media Mergers -- Just For Content -- Might Be In Vogue
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, December 15, 2014
Out of the media fire, into the media fire. Jeff Bewkes, chairman/chi ...
- Publicis Groupe Acquires Content Marketing Shop Relevant24
MAD, Steve McClellan - Thursday, December 11, 2014
Based in Boston, R24 develops branded content for companies engaged in t ...
- Adobe Acquires Stock Photo Site Fotolia For About $800 Million
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, December 11, 2014
Adobe Systems announced in its fourth-quarter earnings report Thursday plans to plu ...
- Microsoft Buys App Analytics Provider HockeyApp
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, December 11, 2014
Microsoft just bought a crash analytics and app distribution provider named HockeyAp ...
- Publicis Groupe Extends Sapient Tender Offer, Prices $1.6B Bond Offering To Fund It
MAD, Steve McClellan - Tuesday, December 9, 2014
The company has extended its tender offer until Dec. 23. As ...
- MRM//McCann Acquires eCommerce Provider Optaros
MAD, Steve McClellan - Monday, December 8, 2014
Founded in 2004 Optaros helps companies conceive, design, build and operate the ...
- JWT Acquires Indie Digital Shop Heyday
MAD, Steve McClellan - Monday, December 8, 2014
Founded in 2000, by Luke Pierson, Heyday's services include digital strategy, visu ...
- Dentsu Aegis Agrees To Buy Social Shop Tempero
MAD, Steve McClellan - Thursday, December 4, 2014
The agency will become the European arm of ICUC, Dentsu Aegis Network ...
- U.S. Media Companies Register Big Uptick In Global Deals
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 4, 2014
A surge in foreign acquisitions of U.S. entertainment and media companies ...
- WPP's Possible Acquires Swift Collective
MAD, Steve McClellan - Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Swift's revenues for 2014 will be over $13 million and its clien ...
- Accenture Buys Reactive Media
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Further supporting the trend ad agencies seeking to offer more than ju ...
- Bollore Group Stock Split Approved; Havas Tender Offer Is Now Open
MAD, Steve McClellan - Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Bollore has proposed a stock offering through two of its subsidiaries th ...
- Media M&A November Value Up 40%, Digital Deals Most Active
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Media merger and acquisition value climbed 40% in November versus the sa ...
- Critics Rally Opposition To Comcast-Time Warner Merger
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 3, 2014
A group of unlikely allies are banding together in a new initiati ...
- AOL Acquires Content Exchange Vidible
Online Video Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, December 1, 2014
Expanding its automated video advertising efforts, AOL on Monday announced the acquisiti ...