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Burkett Media announced this week the divestiture of spectacular out-of-home advertising assets in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex to OUTFRONT Media. OUTFRONT owns one of the largest and most diverse sets of out-of-home assets in North America. Drachman M&A Co. represented seller Burkett Media in the transaction. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Burkett Media […]

Two Texas out-of-home advertising firms have completed a transaction involving Outdoor Advertising Assets in North Texas and the Dallas-Ft. Worth DMA. Kramerica Outdoor Advertising of Sulphur Springs, Texas announced the sale of its Outdoor Advertising Assets to Austin based MediaChoice. Drachman M&A Co. represented Kramerica Outdoor Advertising in the transaction. Terms of the deal were […]

Mood Media, who like to claim that they are the world’s leading in-store media solutions company (driving elevated Customer Experiences blah blah blah), has announced that it has acquired PlayNetwork, a global music technology partner and audiovisual systems provider supporting customer experience for brands worldwide from Octave Group. PlayNetwork offers in-store and digital curated music, […]

Apollo Global Management has acquired Verizon Media (basically AOL and YAHOO) for USD 5 billion from Verizon Communications Inc.. Verizon spent approximately USD 9 billion buying AOL and Yahoo over a two year period beginning in 2015. In 2019, Verizon sold Tumblr in last year divested HuffPost to BuzzFeed late last year. The properties Verizon […]

Rouge Media Group, the Canadian arm of Rouge Media, has been acquired by Rogers Sports & Media. Martin Poitras, CEO Rouge Media Inc told us “We are proud that our Canadian OOH networks, partnerships and Rouge Canada team are now part of Rogers Sports & Media. Our best in class assets and networks will be […]

Exertis has acquired JB&A Inc. JB&A Inc is a leading distributor of broadcast, post-production and pro AV technologies, to system integrators and B2B resellers in North America. Located in San Rafael, California, the company saw revenues of USD 80 million in the last financial year. JB&A holds a leading position with specialist vendors in the […]

As we wrote back in early December, rumour in the US was that Spectrio LLC was about to be acquired. As we speculated then, it was indeed, another private equity company, in this instance, The Jordan Company, that made the acquisition. Spectrio’s existing management team, led by CEO Dax Brady-Sheehan, will continue to run the […]

FreeWheel announced this week that it has agreed to acquire Beeswax. The acquisition will expand FreeWheel’s current programmatic marketplace capabilities across all forms of television and video advertising, including Connected TV (CTV) and Set-top Box Video on Demand (STB VOD). This transaction is expected to close in January 2021, pending regulatory approvals. Financial terms were […]

Axel Springer Verlag has acquired the majority of the Frankfurt start-up Framen. Co-founder Dimitri Gärtner and his three fellow co-founders have retained a 40% stake in the business and continue to run the business. Framen is pretty unknown outside Germany but operates the typical #AdTECH platform that can be used to book advertising on digital […]

Bodle Technologies Ltd, the Oxford University spin-out transforming non-emissive digital screens with its reflective display technology SRD, has announced that it has secured an extension to its Series A funding round. Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI), Bodle’s backer since inception has led the investment with support from the government’s Future Fund. Bodle was established in 2015 […]