Demand for technology that allows advertisers to innovate faster and deliver more targeted ads is growing in the M&A space.
November 08, 2019

The slump in optimism around ad tech and mar tech businesses hasn’t been enough to deter a growing number of advertisers. So far this year several high-profile advertisers have swooped for companies that sat on the periphery of the ad tech and mar tech sectors. McDonald’s bought personalization platform in March, Walmart snapped up ad tech startup Polymorph Labs to deliver more relevant ads to online shoppers in April, Nike bet on predictive analytics company Celect in August; travel startup OYO Hotels and Homes-bought Danamica, a Copenhagen-based startup that specializes in dynamic pricing through machine learning in September; and the same month, MasterCard cut a deal for customer data platform SessionM. Read more below.

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