
Dentsu Aegis Aquires Fetch To Bolster Mobile Capabilities
Global marketing holding company, Denstu Aegis Network, has acquired the London-based mobile agency, Fetch, to infuse mobile capabilities...

Publicis Set To Pay Premium For Sapient’s Digital Ad Business
Publicis Groupe SA, the third-biggest advertising agency holding company in the world, has agreed to pay $3.7 billion for Boston,...

Dentsu Aegis Network To Acquire Covario’s Content Marketing & Search Agency
Dentsu Aegis Network, the London-based global network of media and digital marketing organizations — announced today it has signed an...

Rakuten To Buy Ebates For $1 Billion In Cash
Japan’s Rakuten Inc. has confirmed it will acquire San Francisco-based Ebates Inc. for roughly $1 billion in cash. The acquisition will...

Yahoo Acquires Anti-Ad Blocker Startup ClarityRay
Little is known about the company’s ad security efforts alluded to in the acquisition announcements. As of August 6, ad-blocking...

LinkedIn To Acquire Bizo In A Deal Valued At $175 Million
In an effort to build out its marketing and mobile products, LinkedIn announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bizo, a B2B...

How Universal Analytics Is Different And What You Should Be Doing Now
If you’ve been using Google Analytics (GA) as your analytics solution over the past year or so, you’ve probably noticed that Google has...

One Tech Stack To Rule Them All: Potential Programmatic Pitfalls
Agencies tend to pigeonhole programmatic vendors. Some vendors are used for specific goals such as prospecting, others for specific...

Marin Software Buys Self-Serve Retargeting Platform Perfect Audience
The company said of the Perfect Audience purchase: With the acquisition, Marin Software expands its cross-channel capabilities, adding...

App Annie, App Analytics Company, Acquires Distimo
announced they’ve acquired their competitor Distimo. Bertrand Schmitt, CEO of App Annie said “acquiring Distimo will help us further...

Omnicom & Publicis Merger Dead: CEOs Blame Differences In Opinions & Cultures
Originally announced in July, the Omnicom-Publicis deal would have resulted in the largest advertising agency in the world, with Publicis...

IgnitionOne Acquires Knotice To Build Out Its Digital Marketing Platform
IgnitionOne announced today it has acquired the privately-owned digital marketing platform Knotice. According to the announcement...

Oracle To Buy BlueKai, Adding A Data Management Platform To Its Marketing Cloud
According to the press release, “BlueKai will be integrated with both Responsys for B2C marketing automation and Eloqua for B2B marketing...

Oracle To Buy Responsys Cloud-Based B2C Marketing Automation Platform
Responsys helps brands manage and execute email, mobile, social, display and retargeting campaigns. MetLife, jetBlue, City Sports and...

AOL To Buy Programmatic Video Ad Platform Adap.tv, Expanding Efforts To Change Video & TV Ad Bu
Adap.tv’s programmatic ad platform facilitates real-time bidding as well as premium upfront and spot buys. The platform also works across...

Omnicom + Publicis = Publicom & Much Ado About Shareholder Equity? What’s The Real Impact
Omnicom and Publicis merger has everyone talking, but what (if anything) does this mean for the digital ad world? Who will be the winners...

Deluxe Buys Vertical Response For $27 Million
announced this week during its latest earnings report that it’s bought Vertical Response, an e-mail and social media marketing provider....

Salesforce To Buy ExactTarget For $2.5 Billion, Gain More Ground In Marketing Automation
announcement released today from Salesforce.com, the popular CRM platform has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire cloud-based...

Rimm-Kaufman Group Acquires Vanessa Fox’s Nine By Blue
The acquisition includes hiring the talent behind Nine By Blue, including our very own Vanessa Fox, a Contributing Editor here and at...
























