Wheelin' & Dealin' - Online Marketing & Ads
11/16/2005
What's your exit strategy? If it's to get "aquired" the M&A list that Cliff Kurtzman, CEO of ADASTRO and moderator of the excellent The Online Advertising Discussion List, put together of the 2005 deals in the online marketing and ad space might be helpful. Most of the deals involve companies who are involved with online content. I found the movement and the players interesting.
Sidebar: Since Gawker's deal with Yahoo! is *only* to provide content ... guess we won't see one that on Cliff's list.
November 2005
PlanetOut acquires LPI Media for $31.1M.
MashBoxx acquires
Grokster
AtomShockwave acquires Addicting Games
WebMD acquires
TheHeart.org for $19M (approximately $150/member)
Microsoft acquires
media-streams.com AG and Foldershare
News Corp buys Propertyfinder.com for
$25.3M
AOL acquires MusicNow
Think Partnership (CGI Holdings) buys Web
Diversity for $2M
Aegis/Isobar acquires Planete Interactive and Webcontents
for $11M
Omnicom acquires Resolution Media
VML acquires Studiocom
Ziff
Davis Media Game Group acquires FileFront.com
Boulevards acquires SF
Station
Leisure & Gaming acquires Nine.com for $36M and Engllish Harbour
for $16.5M
ThriftyChick.com acquired by Papierdoll.net
Stoddard Hill
Capital acquires iNET Interactive from Aberration! Ventures
Alebooks acquires
BookFinder.com
LocalMatters acquires AreaGuides.net
Yahoo! acquires
Softbank's shares of Yahoo UK, Yahoo Germany and
Yahoo France, and Yahoo
Korea for $500M
First Advantage Corporation and The First American
Corporation
jointly acquire a 75 percent ownership interest in LeadClick
Media
for $150 million.
October 2005
AOL purchases Weblogs, Inc. for
$25 Million
Yahoo acquires Upcoming.org
Verisign buys Moreover for
$30M
MTV Networks buys IFILM for $49M
J. L. Halsey acquires EmailLabs for
$19.5M
Omnicom acquires ipsh!
AOL acquires Weblogs (est.
$25M)
Aegis/Isobar acquires Kirowski Rt. for $12M
Yahoo acquires
WhereonEarth
eBay acquires VeriSign Payment Gateway for
$370M
September 2005
Trendum acquires BuzzMetrics
Microsoft buys
Alacris
eBay buys Skype for $2.6 - $4 Billion
Rakuten buys Linkshare for
$425M
Alliance buys Bigfoot Interactive for $120M est.
News Corp (Fox
Interactive) acquires IGN for $650M
DMG World Media acquires iMedia
Media
Contacts acquires Iando
August 2005
Microsoft acquires Teleo (VoIP
Tech)
AOL buys Xdrive
AOL buys Wildseed
News Corp (Fox Interactive)
acquires Scout Media
ValueClick acquires Fastclick for $280M
Incisive
Media PLC acquires Clickz.com/Search Engine Trade Shows from
Jupitermedia
for $43M
Aegis/Isobar acquires glue for $26M
Experian acquires Vente,
Inc.
Vector Capital acquires Register.com for $200M
Yahoo! invests $1B in
Alibaba, which acquires Yahoo! China
July 2005
Marchex buys IndustryBrains
for $30.6M
Yahoo buys Konfabulator
News Corp (Fox Interactive) buys
Intermix/MySpace for $580M
Google acquires Android
Google acquires
Akwan
Cheetahmail (Experian) acquires Harvest Solutions
Aegis/Isobar
acquires Digithais Network for $6M
Experian acquires
ClassesUSA.com
June 2005
Gannett acquires PointRoll (est.
$100M)
Amazon.com buys CustomFlix
Yahoo acquires Dialpad
eBay buys
Shopping.com for $620 Million
Millward Brown acquires Dynamic Logic
I/PRO
acquires Accrue
ValueClick acquires Web Clients for $141M
ValueClick
acquires E-Babylon for $15M
MTV Networks buys Neopets for
$160M
Jupitermedia acquires PictureArts for $63.2M
Falk North America
acquires FPBA Group/Commflash
IGN acquires AskMen.com
E.W. Scripps
acquires Shopzilla for $525M
Aegis/Isobar acquires HYPERmedia for
$8.7M
May 2005
Jupitermedia acquires JGuru.com
Horizon buys Mass Transit
Interactive
Refinery buys DirectMASS
Google acquires Dodgeball
J. L.
Halsey acquires Lyris for $24M
Experian buys LowerMyBills.com for
$380M
eBay/Kijiji acquires Gumtree.com and
LoQUo.com
April 2005
Amazon.com buys BookSurge
Amazon.com buys
Mobipocket.com
Hellman & Friedman buys Doubleclick for $1.1B
Yahoo
acquires TeRespondo
Aegis/Isobar acquires Molecular for $31.5M
Experian
acquires Thermo Media, LLC (Affiliate Fuel)
March 2005
Francisco Partners
acquires WebTrends from NetIQ for $94M
Acxiom acquires Digital Impact for
$140M
WebSourced acquires Smart Interactive
adMarketplace acquires
AIBITS
IAC/Interactive Corp buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 Billion
Microsoft
buys Groove Networks
Yahoo acquires Ludicorp Research (Flickr) for $40
Million
Google purchases Urchin Sofware for $30 Million
GOT Corporation
acquires Smart Solutions International
Silverpop acquires Digital
Oxygen
360i acquires SearchIgnite
Think Partnership (CGI Holdings)
acquires PrimaryAds for $10M-$26M
February 2005
Websidestory acquires Atomz
for $4.3M
comScore acquires SurveySite
NY Times buys About.com from
Primedia for $410 Million
Interchange acquires Inspire Infrastructure 2i for
$22.5M
Ask Jeeves acquires Bloglines
January 2005
iVillage acquires
Healthology for $17.2M
DigitalGrit acquires Liquid Marketing and
Insight
Aegis/Isobar acquires FarFar
Aegis/Isobar acquires De-construct
for $11M
DMG New Media acquires AD:TECH $19.4M est.
Update: Cliff is updating this list on the Online Advertsing Discussion List website.
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