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Mediaocean, Flashtalking | July 19, 2021

Mediaocean will buy independent global ad server Flashtalking to establish a "neutral tech platform" with a combined annual media spend of $200 billion. According to The Wall Street Journal, it will pay $500 million for the New York-based company, which has annual revenue of between $100 and $150 million. Mediaocean provides advertising workflow software that drives $70 billion in television advertising in the United States, but it is also actively pursuin...

u.today | February 05, 2020

Online advertising is currently the biggest growth market in the broader advertising sector. According to a report issued by marketing analytics firm Zenith, online ads will account for more than half of all advertising spend within the next two years. However, while spending is growing, the online ad model is riddled with flaws. In a 2018 survey of 1,000 marketers, more than 40% of respondents stated that they were wasting upwards of 30% of their budget on the wrong channels or strategies, mean...

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Nextdoor | April 13, 2022

Today, Nextdoor (NYSE: KIND) announced Nextdoor Ads, an easy-to-use expansion of Nextdoor’s proprietary self-serve campaign management platform, designed to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) advertise on Nextdoor. By providing a guided experience for creating and managing effective ads on Nextdoor, Nextdoor Ads empowers SMBs to build stronger brands with local audiences, turn neighbors into customers, and grow their business through advertising on the neighborhood network.
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LUMA Partners | April 08, 2021

Seven ad tech companies made transactions valued at over $1 billion in the first quarter of 2021 – double the amount that’s happened in the past few years combined. “We’ve got a perfect storm here of different forces lining up, which created such a strong quarter,” said Conor McKenna, LUMA Partners director. The ad tech investment banking firm LUMA tallied up recent deals in its Q1 2021 Market Report last week. Multiple paths to get to $1 billi...