Results tagged “ma”

November 5, 2019

Seismic Acquires Percolate

Seismic announced that it has acquired Percolate to combine the companies' capabilities in marketing management and sales enablement. SMA's acquisitions scorecard press release Seismic blog post Percolate blog post...

October 25, 2019

Unmetric Joins Falcon.io & Cision

Falcon.io, a division of Cision, announced that it has acquired Unmetric. The company plans to merge the Unmetric product into the Falcon.io platform, continuing its strategy of building a unified social media marketing platform. SMA's acquisitions scorecard press release Falcon.io...

October 22, 2019

$2.74B Buyout to Take Cision Private

Cision (NYSE: CISN) announced that it has agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of Platinum Equity for $2.74 billion in cash. Platinum Equity is a buy-and-hold investment firm with 40 companies in its portfolio. SMA's acquisitions scorecard press release...

October 2, 2019

Access Intelligence Buys Pulsar

Access Intelligence Plc announced that it has acquired Pulsar in a stock-swap transaction valued at £4.5 million. The addition gives Access Intelligence an enterprise social media intelligence capability to go with Vuelio and ResponseSource. Pulsar's previous owner, Cello Health plc,...

September 26, 2019

Infomedia and M-Brain Form Nordic Alliance, Exchange Assets

Infomedia and M-Brain have announced an alliance to provide a pan-Nordic media intelligence solution. As part of the deal, Infomedia has acquired M-Brain's Swedish and Norwegian media intelligence operations and its Estonian production facility. M-Brain will continue to provide media...

August 20, 2019

Mavrck Acquires GroupHigh

Mavrck announced that it has acquired GroupHigh in a move that grows its Influencer Index tenfold. GroupHigh will continue as a subsidiary, while Mavrck plans to incorporate GroupHigh's blogger-search capabilities and profiles data into its own platform. SMA's acquisitions scorecard...

July 12, 2019

Cheetah Digital Acquires Wayin

Cheetah Digital announced that it has acquired Wayin  for its capabilities in zero-party data collection and analysis. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This iteration of Wayin was formed by the merger of Wayin and EngageSciences in 2016. SMA's...

July 12, 2019

Maps Group Buys Rest of Roialty

Maps spa announced that it has acquired Roialty  with an investment of more that € 500 million. Maps is an existing investor in the company, previously holding a 46.1% position. Maps specializes in technologies for developing information from data, offering...

May 23, 2019

Nuvi Acquires Banyan

Nuvi  announced that it has acquired Banyan in an expansion into the healthcare market. Banyan has developed HIPAA-compliant tools for managing social media, online reviews and business listings for healthcare providers. Brickfish acquired Nuvi in September 2018; the combined company...

April 19, 2019

Synoptos Added to Ignite Technologies

Ignite Technologies and its parent, ESW Capital, announced last month the acquisition of Synoptos  for its media intelligence business. Synoptos, which was formed by the combination of Infoition and OhMyGov in 2014, will operate as Ignite Synoptos Solutions. ESW is...

April 9, 2019

AirPR Acquires Ozmotic, Changes Name

AirPR announced that it has acquired Ozmotic for its content marketing and analytics. The combined company has been renamed Onclusive  to broaden its appeal. SMA's acquisitions scorecard blog post...

March 28, 2019

Brandwatch Acquires Qriously

Brandwatch  announced that it has acquired Qriously to connect solicited, quantitative market research and social media intelligence. Qriously places survey questions on mobile phones through ad networks to conduct real-time research. SMA's acquisitions scorecard press release blog post webinar...

March 21, 2019

Conversocial Acquires Assist

Conversocial  announced that it has acquired Assist to add messaging automation and chatbots to its customer experience portfolio. SMA's acquisitions scorecard press release...

January 23, 2019

Cision Snaps Up TrendKite

Cision  announced that it has acquired TrendKite  for $225 million in cash and stock. The TrendKite platform will continue as a standalone product with a longer-term plan of integration into the Cision Communications Cloud product. Cision also announced the sale...

January 23, 2019

The Year in M&A, Social Media Analysis 2018

Companies in social media analysis changed ownership 25 times in 2018—down from 29 in 2017, but with more mergers of equals and an IPO to add interest. As usual, most transactions are portfolio plays, companies adding to their technology and...

January 3, 2019

Cision Acquires Falcon.io

Cision  announced that it has acquired Falcon.io  to integrate social media campaigns across paid, owned, and earned media. The Falcon.io product will remain available separately and will also be integrated with the Cision Communications Cloud. Terms of the deal were...

December 18, 2018

YouGov Acquires Portent.IO

Portent.IO announced that it has been acquired by YouGov  for its social media analysis and data science capabilities. The Portent.IO team has joined YouGov. Their product will be rebranded as YouGov Signal, which will expand from its film and TV...

November 26, 2018

Comintelli Completes IPO

Comintelli  announced that its shares have begun trading on Stockholm's Spotlight Stock Market after an oversubscribed initial offering. Comintelli page on Spotlight press release blog post Related: Comintelli Public Offering Opens, 23 Oct 2018...

November 6, 2018

Slyce Buys Ditto Labs IP

Slyce announced that it has purchased the intellectual property assets of Ditto Labs  for its visual search platform. The acquisition includes patents and patent applications, plus other digital assets of Ditto's image recognition technology platform. Terms of the deal were...

October 30, 2018

Synthesio Joins Ipsos

Ipsos announced that it has acquired Synthesio  in a cash transaction valued at more than $50 million. Ipsos plans to maintain Synthesio as a standalone business unit, which will keep its name and leadership. SMA's acquisitions scorecard Ipsos press release...