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Happy Ever After or a Deal with the Devil? Why Ten-Year Ad Tech Contracts Set a Dangerous Precedent

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Many ad tech vendors offer shelter to weather-worn media owners by offering ten-year contracts for their services. Unscrupulous ad tech companies have leveraged these hardships to lock publishers into restrictive 10, 15, or even 20-year contracts. Consider the cautionary tale of ad network Rocket Fuel.

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George Parker: my review of 2015 and US agency pick

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Christmas seems to have come (and almost gone) in November this year so we’re kicking off our reviews of the year and choice of agencies and others early too. Who better than George Parker, founder and editor of the famed Adscam, to get the ball rolling? Among other highlights (or maybe lowlights) George picks his.

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International deals drive 2015 marcoms takeover trends

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New Research by specialist marcoms M&A firm Results International shows that the number of global marcoms deals completed in Q3 2015 rose by seven per cent from Q2 (264 deals in Jul-Sep compared to 246 in Apr-Jun). This has been driven largely by a jump in the number of cross-border deals. More than a third.

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Brian Lesser returns to GroupM with an expected focus on advancing tech

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The latest C-suite shuffle within WPP’s media agency arm, GroupM, comes at the very top of the organization, as Brian Lesser returns to the company as global CEO this September. Lesser will replace Christian Juhl, who led GroupM for the last five years, ascending to that spot four years after GroupM acquired digital agency Essence in 2015.

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Ciesco Group research reveals the new big buyers in the global marcoms world

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By Afsor Miah Corporate finance advisory firm Ciesco Group’s Market Intelligence team has tracked 542 transactions globally in H1 of 2015, with target companies spanning 45 different countries and buyer companies coming from 35 countries. Deal volume 2012 – 2015 The number of announced deals in H1 2015 is down 10.4

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Jerry Buhlmann joins digital agency Dept as non exec chair

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Jerry Buhlmann, the former CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network, has joined international digital agency Dept as a non-executive chairman, where he has been brought in to advise on growth and global expansion. Dept was founded in Amsterdam in 2015 and now employs 2,500 people in 30 offices.

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Dentsu is top acquirer in 2016 with digital and content agencies in demand

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There were 1,023 marcoms deals globally, rising from 979 in 2015 and 972 in 2014 In Q4 there were 238 marcoms deals worldwide, a slight decrease from the 279 in Q3 but still showing a. Mergers and acquisitions activity in the marcoms sector grew in 2016 according to new research from M&A advisor Results International.

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