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Our Newest Report: Online Advertising VC and M&A Deals In The Last Year
By Rafat Ali
- Mon 18 Aug 2008 10:59 PM PST
Following our analysis of Social Media Deals, we’ve pleased to announce our first Online Advertising Deals Report, charting activity in venture capital and mergers & acquisitions from Q107 to Q208. This sector continues to drive online content, reaching annual revenues of $600-800 billion.
The report breaks down these investments and acquisitions into major categories and contains industry analysis from:
-- A future trends piece by Lauren Rich Fine, Practitioner-in-residence at Kent State University and former Managing Director in Merrill Lynch’s Equity Research Department.
-- Douglas Anmuth, Senior Internet Analyst for Lehman Brothers, with his presentation at our EconAds Conference held recently in NYC
The rest of the data is derived from our own reporting at paidContent.org, mocoNews.net, ContentSutra.com and paidContent:UK, and supplemented with coverage of EconAds.
Order your report to learn about increased activity from AOL (NYSE: TWX), Aegis Group, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Draper Fisher Jurvetson and more.
VC Investments: More details after the jump...
-- Total number of investments:160
-- Total number of disclosed investments: 137 valued at $1,925,830,000
-- Average investment size: $14,057,153
-- Best estimated value of overall investment in the space (disclosed and undisclosed): $2,126,620,000
Acquisitions:
-- Total number of acquisitions: 100
-- Total number of disclosed acquisitions: 46 valued at $17,535,320,000
-- Average acquisition size: $327,313,415
-- Best estimated value of overall transaction in the space (disclosed and undisclosed): $20,594,510,000
The charts below provide a topline overview of how the money was spent (click thumbnails for better view):
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Registration Now Open for Sept. 9 MocoMixer During CTIA Week
By Rafat Ali
- Wed 20 Aug 2008 03:30 AM PST
Registration is officially open for our third annual CTIA MocoMixer, on Sep 9 in SF. As our regular readers and attendees know well, our mixers fill up fast, so book early. Today is the first batch of tickets...we will open again tomorrow morning at 8 AM PST with another batch.
The mobile content-focused business mixer will take place at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel, next door to the Moscone Center, where the official CTIA tradeshow will start the next day.
As usual, the mixer will feature the best mix of execs from big-media content companies, small and indie media/content providers, music labels, gaming companies, video companies, handset firms, aggregators/distributors, technology/vendor companies, VCs, bankers, analysts and journalists there.
Sponsors till now: GoTV Networks. If you are interested in underwriting the best mixer in town, drop our business side a line at advertising AT contentnext.com.
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Reliance (Still) Scouting For Mobile Content Acquisitions In U.S.; How About Yahoo?
By Rafat Ali
- Tue 19 Aug 2008 10:17 PM PST
Reliance ADA, the scary-big Indian telecom/media/energy giant which is already making strides in Hollywood through its Dreamworks deal, has been looking for mobile content deals in U.S. for some time now, and WSJ helps with the scouting with a longish story on its ambitions. It is looking at mobile game publishers and other kinds of mobile entertainment firms, with the intent to “exploit its expertise in telecom and get exposure to a segment of the cellphone industry that promises high growth, the story says. NO specific deals have been lined up yet, though one could expect companies like Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU), Digital Chocolate (has been on the block for a long time now), and Hands-On Mobile (which has been disposing of international units to focus on U.S.) as targets. The deals are being explored Jump Games, Reliance’s mobile gaming unit.
Besides these middlemen-type deals, the company is also looking to license content directly from major brands, which it can then distribute through its huge base in India, the reasoning goes. Will its experience be any better than the doomed Japanese and Korean mobile content forays into U.S. market starting five years ago? Index, For-Side and Cybird tried, and bought a slew of companies, only to end up selling them off or closing them a few years later. Reasons then were lack of common language and work culture, complexities of working with the walled-garden operators then, and the lack of consumer adoption with slower networks. Now, some of those issues have gone away....
Here’s a wilder thought, though: What about looking at bigger online deals in U.S.? Reliance has the money and the capability to raise a lot more...how about making a run at Yahoo? Better than Disney buying Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Wait, you haven’t heard about Dubai Government looking to buy Google? Settle down, just speculatin’..
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