Deals

Blinkx, an online ad platform with a focus on video, on Tuesday announced it has acquired Lyfe Mobile

The collapse of the Publicis-Omnicom merger removes the threat to WPP’s position as the industry’s largest group by revenues and delighted its chief executive

A new publishing company has acquired Scarlet Magazine, the “magazine dedicated to celebrating the sex lives and relationships of women” and will re-launch the former print periodical later this month as a digital-only title. Scarlet Publishing Ltd has been formed by Rebekah Billingsley, former Digital Publishing Director of BBC Worldwide and Wes Stanton, owner of […]

WPP’s data investment management (DIM) arm has sold off its US call center business, Center Partners, to Mexico-based business process outsourcing (BPO) and call centre service provider Qualfon

ITV will initially pay $360m for an 80 per cent stake in Leftfield, with the total fee rising to $800m

AOL added yet another arrow to its ad-tech quiver Tuesday, snatching up attribution modeling company Convertro for approximately $101 million, the company announced

Weber Shandwick has acquired Swedish PR agency Prime and its business intelligence arm United Minds

F+W has sold a majority stake to Tinicum L.P., a New York-based private equity firm

In another sign of the accelerating shift online in the advertising business, the Boston marketing agency Jack Morton Worldwide Inc. is acquiring a local digital agency, Genuine Interactive Inc

Automattic, the parent company of popular blog-hosting and publishing platform WordPress, has raised a funding round of $160 million to help it develop better online and mobile tools for publishing, a round that values the company at over $1 billion

Lewis PR has acquired UK-based digital marketing agency Purestone in an all cash transaction

WPP announces that it has agreed to acquire Quirk, Africa’s largest independently owned digital marketing agency

News Corp has had its head turned by Harlequin Enterprises, the Canadian owner of the Mills & Boon romance franchise, at a cost of £240m

News Corp has had its head turned by Harlequin Enterprises, the Canadian owner of the Mills & Boon romance franchise, at a cost of £240m

WPP announces that GroupM has agreed to take majority stake in aMVG (Aerodeon), the leading mobile media agency and mobile technology company in Turkey

WPP announces that it has acquired Twist Image Multimedia Inc in Canada, a leading creative digital marketing agency

Japanese communications giant Dentsu Aegis Network has announced it has agreed to purchase of a majority stake in Brazilian full service ad agency NBS

French newspaper Le Monde has now weighed in on the current differences between Paris-based Publicis Groupe and its potential U.S. merger partner Omnicom in an incendiary piece

French newspaper Le Monde has now weighed in on the current differences between Paris-based Publicis Groupe and its potential U.S. merger partner Omnicom in an incendiary piece

Business information provider Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) has acquired cloud-based analytics and business intelligence specialist Indicee