ShowHeroes Group, a global leader in digital video advertising and CTV solutions, today (October 8th, 2024) announces the acquisition of Vidds, an AI-powered video creation and editing platform, for an undisclosed sum.  Founded in 2020 by Ed Thomas and Andrew Walters, [...]

Equativ, the global independent ad tech company, announced the strategic acquisition of Kamino Retail, the flexible and agnostic on-site retail media platform designed for retailers. Supported by Bridgepoint, its primary investor, Equativ has tripled in size over the last three [...]

Today’s news: YouTube’s Pause Screen Ads Roll Out to All Advertisers; FTC Denounces Social Media Giants’ Data Use; Publicis Groupe Acquires Mars United Commerce  More than a year after YouTube revealed it was testing ads which play when a user pauses [...]

Adelaide, the leader in attention-based media quality measurement, has acquired Rita, a privacy-friendly marketing insights company, in an all-stock transaction aimed at enhancing its models with deterministic behavioural data, ad exposure data, and outcomes. Through this acquisition, John Arts, CEO [...]

This week on The Stack: Latest Ad Tech Deals and Acquisitions; Today’s MadTech Daily  Deals and acquisitions made a big splash in our digest news this week, starting with the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the US. Establishing its media rights [...]

On today’s news digest: UK BVOD Ad Spend to Surpass £1 Billion in 2024; FTC to Investigate Surveillance Pricing; Grab Abandons Acquisition of Trans-cab  UK Ad spend on broadcast video on demand (BVOD) services will surpass £1bn for the first time [...]

On today’s news digest: Informa Acquires Cannes Lions Owner Ascential; YouTube Earns £6.7bn in Q2 Ad Revenue; UK Streaming Market Loses 300k Subscribers Informa, the UK based and world’s biggest international events group, has agreed to acquire Ascential, owner of global [...]

On today’s news digest: BeReal Acquired for €500m; Global Ad Spend to Rise 7.8%; Paramount and Skydance Merger Off the Table  BeReal, the Paris-based photo sharing app which promotes authenticity on the platform, has been acquired by French video game maker, [...]

Broadsign, developer of the leading out-of-home (OOH) advertising platform, today (May 13th, 2024) announced that it has acquired Netherlands-based digital OOH (DOOH) ad tech provider OutMoove.  The transaction, which includes OutMoove’s business and DOOH demand-side platform (DSP) technology, will enable OutMoove [...]

Overwolf, the all-in-one platform that enables creators to build, share, and monetise in-game apps, mods, and private servers, today (8th May, 2024) announced the acquisition of NitroPay, a gaming ad tech company that helps website publishers monetise their site traffic [...]