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33 AdTech transitions in 2024

Companies acquired, rebranded, merged, or shut down in 2024.

Twenty-eight AdTech industry transitions occurred in 2024, with 14 acquisitions, 13 shutdowns, and one rebrand. Notable closures included Amazon Ad Server, CrowdTangle, and Flurry Analytics, while Media.Monks underwent rebranding. Oracle Data Cloud emerged as the most connected entity with 161 connections across the industry's shifting landscape.

Adlucent
AdlucentAcquired

Acquired by BarkleyOKRP · 2024

Adlucent was a digital marketing technology company specializing in predictive marketing and paid search optimization for retailers and bran…

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ArtifactAcquired

Acquired by Yahoo · 2024

Artifact was an AI-powered news aggregation app founded by Instagram's co-founders that personalized content discovery before being shut dow…

Chartboost
ChartboostAcquired

Acquired by LoopMe · 2024

Chartboost is a leading mobile advertising and monetization platform specializing in in-app advertising for gaming and app developers, now o…

Habu
HabuAcquired

Acquired by LiveRamp · 2024

Habu was a leading data clean room platform acquired by LiveRamp in 2024 for $200M, enabling privacy-safe data collaboration across the adve…

Intelligence Node

Acquired by Interpublic Group · 2024

Intelligence Node was a retail pricing intelligence and competitive data analytics platform that helped brands and retailers optimize pricin…

Intellimize
IntellimizeAcquired

Acquired by Webflow · 2024

Intellimize was an AI-powered website personalization and optimization platform that used machine learning to automatically test and persona…

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Acquired by Equativ · 2024

Kamino Retail was a retail media technology platform that helped brands and retailers activate first-party data for targeted advertising acr…

Onfido
OnfidoAcquired

Acquired by Entrust · 2024

Onfido is an AI-powered identity verification and authentication platform that helps businesses verify real user identities using document c…

Orbital Insight

Acquired · 2024

Orbital Insight was a geospatial analytics company that used satellite imagery and AI to provide location intelligence insights for various …

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TabularAcquired

Acquired by Databricks · 2024

Tabular was an AdTech data management company that provided tools for organizing, analyzing, and activating advertising data across campaign…

Talkwalker
TalkwalkerAcquired

Acquired by Hootsuite · 2024

Talkwalker is a leading social listening and consumer intelligence platform that helps brands monitor, analyze, and act on data from social …

Team Epiphany

Acquired by Stagwell Inc. · 2024

Team Epiphany was a New York-based multicultural marketing and experiential agency known for bridging brands with diverse, influential consu…

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TrueraAcquired

Acquired by Snowflake · 2024

AI observability + monitoring platform.

Uberflip
UberflipAcquired

Acquired by PathFactory · 2024

Uberflip is a content experience platform that helps B2B marketers create, manage, and optimize personalized content hubs to accelerate buye…

Viostream
ViostreamAcquired

Acquired · 2024

Viostream is an Australian enterprise video platform acquired by Kollective Technology, offering secure video hosting, streaming, and manage…

Media.Monks
Media.MonksRebranded

Became Monks · 2024

Media.Monks is a global digital transformation and marketing services company specializing in creative production, technology, and media ser…

Wunderman Thompson

Became VML · 2024

A global creative and technology agency that combines data, commerce, and experience to deliver end-to-end marketing solutions for major bra…

Sizmek
SizmekMerged

Merged into Amazon Ad Server · 2024

Sizmek was a leading independent ad serving and programmatic advertising platform that powered campaigns across display, video, mobile, and …

Amazon Ad Server

Shut down · 2024

Amazon Ad Server (formerly Sizmek) is Amazon's enterprise-grade ad serving and creative management platform, enabling advertisers and agenci…

Crackle Plus
Crackle PlusShut down

Shut down · 2024

Crackle Plus is an ad-supported streaming platform and content distribution network offering free, premium video content to consumers while …

CrowdTangle
CrowdTangleShut down

Shut down · 2024

CrowdTangle was a social media analytics tool acquired by Facebook November 2016 — provided journalists, researchers, and brands with monito…

Flurry Analytics

Shut down · 2024

Flurry Analytics was a pioneering mobile app analytics platform that provided developers and marketers with deep insights into user behavior…

Moat
MoatShut down

Shut down · 2024

Moat was a leading ad measurement and analytics platform acquired by Oracle for $850M in 2017, shut down in September 2024 as part of Oracle…

Oracle Advertising

Shut down · 2024

Oracle Advertising was Oracle's adtech division offering data-driven advertising solutions, shut down by September 2024 after an 85% revenue…

Oracle Data Cloud

Shut down · 2024

Oracle Data Cloud was Oracle's flagship data and audience intelligence platform for advertisers, combining BlueKai, Datalogix, Moat, and Gra…

Oracle Moat
Oracle MoatShut down

Shut down · 2024

Oracle Moat was a leading digital advertising measurement and analytics platform that provided viewability, attention, and brand safety metr…

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Shut down · 2024

Perfect Audience was a retargeting platform that enabled small and medium-sized businesses to run display and social media retargeting campa…

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PromoteIQShut down

Shut down · 2024

PromoteIQ was a retail media technology platform acquired by Microsoft in 2019 that enabled retailers to monetize their digital properties t…

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RessoShut down

Shut down · 2024

Music streaming service launched 2020.

Salesforce DMP

Shut down · 2024

Salesforce DMP (formerly Krux) was a data management platform that enabled marketers to unify, segment, and activate audience data across di…

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Shut down · 2024

Salesforce Social Studio was an enterprise social media management and listening platform, now sunset as Salesforce shifts social capabiliti…

StackPath
StackPathShut down

Shut down · 2024

StackPath is a comprehensive edge computing platform provider that delivers integrated content delivery network (CDN) services, security sol…

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TikTok MusicShut down

Shut down · 2024

Music streaming service launched July 2023 (Indonesia, Brazil, Australia, Singapore, Mexico).