In today's daily news digest from ExchangeWire: System1 to go public via SPAC; Smart acquires DynAdmic; and Dream Games raises USD$155m (£122m). System1 to go public via SPAC Omnichannel customer acquisition platform System1 has announced that it will go public on the [...]

In today's ExchangeWire daily news digest: Zeta Global targets USD$273m (£192m) in IPO; InMobi in rumoured talks to acquire Shop101; and Tapad exits European market. Zeta Global targets USD$273m (£192m) in IPO Data-driven omnichannel marketing platform Zeta Global has set price terms [...]

Verve Group strategically strengthens its operations by acquiring essentially all assets of Beemray Qy, a leading data platform headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. Verve Group, a privacy-first omnichannel ad platform, is part of Media and Games Invest, and consolidates MGI's media [...]

District M & Sharethrough announced their intention to merge on February 9, 2021. With the merger now complete, the two companies are announcing that they will operate under the name Sharethrough as of today. Additionally, Sharethrough benefits from a complete [...]

Cavai, the leading conversational advertising cloud, today announces a partnership with Xaxis, GroupM’s Outcome Media Company. This partnership enables Xaxis to leverage Cavai’s conversational advertising cloud technology to execute interactive, conversational creative strategies that provide a more personalised experience for each [...]

Pikasso and Broadsign today announced that they’ve teamed to bring Pikasso’s network of premium digital-out-of-home (DOOH) displays to the Broadsign Reach programmatic DOOH supply-side-platform (SSP). With Pikasso’s DOOH inventory on-boarded to Reach, which is integrated with more than 30 omnichannel [...]

Talon is optimising its approach to Digital Out of Home (OOH) trading, putting audience at the heart of the mechanics of delivering audience, price and value. The new approach will allow clients to more easily assess the value of Digital [...]

PubMatic (Nasdaq: PUBM), a sell-side platform that delivers superior outcomes for digital advertising, today announced major enhancements to its omnichannel header bidding wrapper, OpenWrap, bringing greater flexibility and control to publishers. With sophisticated customisation capabilities, OpenWrap, a leading, Prebid-based wrapper [...]

Xandr have shared insight into its multi-faceted approach to identity solutions, to facilitate high-value transactions for buyers and sellers following the deprecation of third-party cookies and device IDs. Xandr is laying the groundwork for agnostic interoperability for identifiers, so its clients [...]

Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world’s largest independent omnichannel sell-side advertising platform, has announced the appointment of Julie Selman as its new UK managing director. Selman brings with her over 15 years’ experience working across the digital advertising industry, specialising in connected TV (CTV), programmatic, [...]