8 spots left:

Join us Dec. 1-3 in Nashville for the Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit

REGISTER

Short Takes: MediaMath Eyes Acquisitions

According to Digiday sources, MediaMath‘s rumored funding round will be to fund acquisitions in ad tech, possibly in the video space. Published reports suggest that the company is in the midst of a funding round that has been described as possibly as much as $100 million. MediaMath provides ad technology to agencies to facilitate ad buys on the major exchanges. CEO Joe Zawadzki would not comment specifically on the companies MediaMath is interested in acquiring or targeted fundraising goals. “We’ve engaged Lazard specifically to look into raising another round,” said Zawadzki. “We think this is the right moment to accelerate growth and develop our acquisition strategy.”

More in Media

‘We’re not trying to be TwitchTok’: Twitch adds new short-form video feature

Twitch is swinging big with a new short-form content push that should help more creators get discovered on-platform.

Yahoo becomes first licensee of ‘Spotify-like’ collective AI content licensing model

Yahoo is the first licensee of the Internet Licensing Collective, offering publishers a new way to get paid for content used in AI search.

Media Briefing: The IAB finds AI measurement standards elusive for publishers amid platform data gaps

The IAB’s new AI attribution framework promises to standardize measurement, but a lack of platform data leaves much of AI’s impact invisible.