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37 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 an in-app programmatic advertising and monetization platform that enables developers to monetize their mobile apps and connect…

Habu
HabuAcquired

Acquired by LiveRamp · 2024

Habu was a San Francisco-based data clean room and collaboration platform, founded in 2017, that allowed brands, publishers, and media platf…

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 social listening and analytics company that helps over 2,000 brands and agencies optimize the impact of their communication …

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…

Extreme Reach
Extreme ReachRebranded

Became XR Extreme Reach · 2024

Extreme Reach is a leading enterprise video advertising technology platform that provides comprehensive end-to-end solutions for managing th…

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 global, multichannel ad server — now merged into Amazon Ad Server — used by advertisers and agencies to create, manage, and del…

Amazon Ad Server

Shut down · 2024

Amazon Ad Server was a global ad-serving platform, rebranded from Sizmek Ad Suite in March 2023, that shut down by the end of 2024.

Chartable
ChartableShut down

Shut down · 2024

Chartable was a podcast analytics platform that enabled publishers to understand and grow their podcast audiences through promotional attrib…

Crackle Plus
Crackle PlusShut down

Shut down · 2024

Crackle Plus was a streaming video-on-demand operator under Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment that shut down in 2024 when its parent c…

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…

Google Chromecast

Shut down · 2024

Google's streaming media adapter that casts content from mobile devices and computers to TVs, enabling digital content delivery and advertis…

Moat
MoatShut down

Shut down · 2024

Moat was an ad measurement and analytics platform founded by Jonah Goodhart and Noah Goodhart that shut down in September 2024 when Oracle, …

Oracle Advertising

Shut down · 2024

Oracle Advertising was an American cloud-based consumer data collection, activation, and measurement platform for digital advertisers, forme…

Oracle Data Cloud

Shut down · 2024

Oracle Data Cloud was a digital advertising data and technology platform that served as one of the most prominent advertising data sellers i…

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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 Audience Studio

Shut down · 2024

Salesforce Audience Studio was a data management platform (DMP) that helped marketers retarget anonymous users across ad networks, and it ha…

Salesforce DMP

Shut down · 2024

Salesforce DMP was a data management platform, originally founded as Krux in 2010, that was acquired by Salesforce in 2016 and has since shu…

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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…

Socialix
SocialixShut down

Shut down · 2024

Socialix is a comprehensive influencer marketing platform that serves as critical infrastructure for brands and marketing agencies managing …

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).