Deals

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

Richard Desmond is set to sell UK broadcaster Channel 5 for £450m to US group Viacom, in a move that will see him receive more than four times his initial investment

M&C Saatchi Group has acquired the digital agency Lean Mean Fighting Machine

M&C Saatchi Group has acquired the digital agency Lean Mean Fighting Machine

Havas announced today that it has acquired Revenue Frontier, the Santa Monica, California-based direct response company that specializes in aggregating distribution and distributing content

Adyoulike, the French native technology platform and network, has acquired Content Amp, one of the UK’s leading native distribution and content services

Cello Group plc is further reinforcing the digital capability of its Cello Signal business via the acquisition of Line Digital Limited. Total consideration has not been disclosed

Cello Group plc is further reinforcing the digital capability of its Cello Signal business via the acquisition of Line Digital Limited. Total consideration has not been disclosed

International pressure to curb corporate tax avoidance is behind delays to a $35 billion merger of French advertising group Publicis and U.S. rival Omnicom

tar Group is to merge with Vox Medica and its parent company, Independence Healthcom Strategies Group (IHSG)

US-based digital media buying platform MediaMath has acquired Tactads, a firm providing cookie-less and cross-device ad targeting technologies

Omnicom says it is unable to predict when its $35.1 billion merger with France’s Publicis Groupe will close

WPP announces that Kantar Retail, its wholly-owned retail and shopper data, analytics and consulting business, has acquired XTEL, a leading provider of sales automation software for the consumer goods industry, based in Italy. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Bologna, Italy, XTEL supplies software, analytics, mobile and cloud solutions to leading consumer goods’ manufacturers. Using […]

MCI Germany has strengthened its creative event and incentive services through a merger with event marketing and incentive agency Hagen Invent

Amazon is acquiring the cloud-based digital comics platform comiXology, the companies announced on Thursday

South African creative agency, OwenKessel, has been acquired by Publicis Groupe which is further expanding its presence in the country. The agency will be merged with the multi-door Publicis Groupe Africa network

Evenbase, dmg media’s digital recruitment business, has disposed of its job
distribution software business, Broadbean, to CareerBuilder and its job search
engine, Jobrapido, to Symphony Technology Group

AXIO Data Group Ltd (AXIO) announced that it has acquired FOEX Indexes Ltd (FOEX) which will sit alongside RISI in AXIO’s portfolio of forest products information assets

Yannick Bolloré, the chairman and chief executive of Havas Worldwide, has said Havas was planning a number of acquisitions, in his first public appearance since taking over from David Jones in January

Kantar Media has acquired the entire issued share capital of The Data Republic, S.L., a social media data analytics agency in Spain