• Advertising Trends
• Mergers & Acquisitions

The most important mergers and acquisitions this week including Gap, Comcast, and Lyft. Stay in the loop, whether you're in ad sales or business development.

• Ad Tech
• Sales Tips

Ad tech companies focus on brands too, yet they also aim to uncover new opportunities outside of their programmatic scope and capitalize on shifting digital advertising budgets. These are the 4 questions that ad tech companies should be asking themselves about their prospects before a sales call.

• Advertising Mergers and Acquisitions

In our last monthly report, we saw another $34 billion in closed mergers and acquisitions, bringing the year's total to roughly $160 billion across more than 380 deals.

• Advertising Mergers and Acquisitions

So far, in 2018, MediaRadar has tracked over $160 billion across more than 380 mergers and acquisitions in total. To this point, March has been the standout month of the year, with 82 mergers and acquisitions for a disclosed total of more than $61 billion.

• MediaRadar Tips
• Sales Tips

According to a HubSpot statistic from 2017, 86% of professionals prefer to use email when communicating for business purposes. With that, comes both good and bad news for sales reps. The bad news?

• Programmatic Advertising

AdExchanger's Programmatic I/O is the world's largest gathering of the data-driven marketing ecosystem. It is a semi-annual event, and this time around, was held in San Francisco on April 10th and 11th, as nearly 3000 professionals and experts shared stories and insights about their experiences with programmatic media and advertising, from both the buyer and seller-side of the equation.

• Advertising Mergers and Acquisitions

In last month's advertising mergers and acquisitions report, we did a recap of all of February 2018's deals. After an action-packed close to 2017, however, February proved to be comparatively slow. This month, it appears that we're back to where 2017 left off, with March showing a sharp increase in deals. In fact, March was easily the most action-filled month of the year thus far. Let's take a look at the high-profile and media deals, as well as the announcements and rumors from the publisher and brand space, March 2018.

• Sales Tips

Ad sales professionals have a lot to do on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. As each quarter comes and goes, and the months fly by, a single day can often seem like a blur - a flicker of time. One of the best ways for any ad sales rep to set themselves up for year-long success, however, is to focus specifically on those blurry, fast-moving, singular days. That's where having a routine comes into the equation.

• Advertising Mergers and Acquisitions

With the start of a new month, comes a number of advertising mergers and acquisitions to report. Here, we'll be taking a look at all of the activity from February 2018. In recent months, we've seen some monumental deals take place, certainly not excluding last month. And despite this month being a bit less noteworthy in terms of the deals that took place, there's plenty to recap.