- Media General Sells, Swaps TV Stations
MediaDailyNews, Erik Sass - Wednesday, August 20, 2014
More broadcast TV stations are changing hands, with this week's transactions betwe ...
- Dentsu Acquires Majority Stake in Crimson Room
MAD, Steve McClellan - Tuesday, August 19, 2014
The deal will put the holding company in the experiential marketing busine ...
- Conde Nast Sells Fairchild To Penske
MediaDailyNews, Erik Sass - Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Conde Nast is selling Fairchild Fashion Media -- which publishes "Women's We ...
- Tech Giants Let Instinct Guide Acquisitions
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, August 18, 2014
Adapting to the industry’s lighting speed of innovation, tech giants are increasing ...
- A Second Major Investor Takes Stake In IPG
MAD, Steve McClellan - Friday, August 15, 2014
Chicago-based Harris Associates has taken a nearly 3% stake in the holdi ...
- Icahn Buys 6.6% Of Gannett
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 15, 2014
Gannett's stock shot up 5% after Thursday's trading on news that activi ...
- Sprinklr Acquires TBG Digital, Ups Media Profile
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, August 14, 2014
Continuing its acquisition tear, Sprinklr has agreed to buy social marketing veter ...
- MDC Partners Acquires Majority of Hunter PR
MAD, Larissa Faw - Wednesday, August 13, 2014
The shop, which counts among its clients Kraft Foods, E&J Gallo Wine ...
- Twitter Paid $134M For Gnip
Around the Net In Social Media & Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Twitter paid $134 million in cash and stock for social data provid ...
- Dentsu Billings Surge 17% In July As The Firm Expands Holdings On Two Continents
MAD, Steve McClellan - Friday, August 8, 2014
Interactive ad spending was the single biggest gainer for the month, ...
- Ad Tech M&A And The Loss Of Neutrality: Real-Time With Adroit's Spivack
RTBlog, Tyler Loechner - Friday, August 8, 2014
I had the opportunity to speak with Avi Spivack, director of produ ...
- WPP's Possible Acquires App Developer Double Encore
MAD, Steve McClellan - Wednesday, August 6, 2014
The deal is designed to strengthen Possible's mobile offering. Denver-based Double Enco ...
- Industry Reacts To Rocket Fuel's Acquisition Of [x+1]
RTBlog, Tyler Loechner - Thursday, August 7, 2014
This week, Rocket Fuel announced its intention to acquire [x+1] for rough ...
- Lamar Buys Marco, Strengthens Presence In South
MediaDailyNews, Erik Sass - Tuesday, August 5, 2014
This week brought more consolidation in the outdoor advertising industry, with Lam ...
- 21st Century Fox Withdraws Time Warner Bid
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 5, 2014
In a rare instance of backing down, Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century F ...
- And Then There Were...Four
MoBlog, Mark Walsh - Wednesday, August 6, 2014
The paradigm of four major wireless operators in the U.S. will continu ...
- Rocket Fuel Powers Up With [x+1], Buys DSP/DMP Hybrid For Roughly $230M
Real-Time Daily, Tyler Loechner - Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Marking further industry consolidation, programmatic ad platform Rocket Fuel on Tuesday announc ...
- Publicis Worldwide Acquires Stake In Arcade
MAD, Larissa Faw - Monday, August 4, 2014
The Singapore-based creative agency counts Unilever, Google, Coca-Cola and IKEA among i ...
- Square Acquires Caviar, Expands E-Commerce
Mobile Marketing Daily, Mark Walsh - Monday, August 4, 2014
Payment service Square on Monday confirmed its acquisition of food delivery start ...
- Project: Worldwide Acquires Perfect Pitch
MAD, Larissa Faw - Friday, August 1, 2014
Independent agency network Project: WorldWide is acquiring Pitch, an award-winning fully integrat ...
- Brand Loves Agency Contact So Much It Hires Her As CMO
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Sunday, August 3, 2014
Wyoming-based Taco John's loved its agency contact so much, it hired h ...
- Taboola Breaks Taboo On 'Programmatic Native,' Acquires Perfect Market
Real-Time Daily, Tyler Loechner - Monday, August 4, 2014
Programmatic's courtship of native advertising continues to roll on. Taboola, a conte ...
- E.W. Scripps, Journal Communications Merge Broadcast, Spin Off Newspapers
MediaDailyNews, Erik Sass - Thursday, July 31, 2014
E.W. Scripps and Journal Communications, publisher of the 'Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel,' announced pla ...
- RTL Group Spends $144M For Majority Stake In Programmatic Video Ad Platform SpotXchange
Real-Time Daily, Tyler Loechner - Thursday, July 31, 2014
RTL Group, a large European media company, on Thursday announced it wi ...
- Pinterest Buys Content Organizer Icebergs
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, July 31, 2014
Putting its recent $200 million capital raise to use, Pinterest just boug ...
- Report: AMC In Talks For Stake In BBC America
Around the Net In Media, Phyllis Fine - Thursday, July 31, 2014
AMC Networks is reportedly in talks to acquire almost 50% of B ...
- Palantir Buys Poptip, Ups Brand Data Capacity
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, July 30, 2014
In an effort to improve its social bona fides, data search fi ...
- Twitter Invests In Deep Learning, Acquires Madbits
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Following similar forays into artificial intelligence by Facebook and Google, Twitter ju ...
- Zillow, Trulia Forming A Blended Household
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Zillow and Trulia, the Nos. 1 and 2 in online real-estate listi ...
- Merging TW, Fox Would Be A Cable Challenge
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 28, 2014
Under a possible 21st Century Fox-Time Warner merger, combining the advertising-supported ...