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Tano raises $4M to automate creator marketing like Meta ad buying

Tano raises $4M to automate creator marketing like Meta ad buying

Business Insider’s Lara O’Reilly reports that Tano, a UK startup founded by former part-time creators Will Caplan and Sagar Shah, raised a $4 million seed round led by Cherry Ventures.

Ad-tech

ChatGPT Ads’ ROI gap narrows the ad platform’s path to permanent budgets

Business Insider’s Lara O’Reilly reports that a working paper under review found ChatGPT Ads generated $0.89 in revenue per US session versus $2.45 for Google search ads.

Nov 11
Agencies

M&A pros name 9 likely ad-industry acquirers, from Accenture to Zeta

Business Insider’s Lara O’Reilly reports that nine bankers and consultants named Accenture, Adobe, Havas, Omnicom, OpenAI, Publicis, Stagwell, The Trade Desk, and Zeta Global as likely acquirers.

Nov 6
Creators

Billion Dollar Boy buys Creator Authority to chase B2B creator marketing

Business Insider’s Lara O’Reilly reports that Billion Dollar Boy Group acquired B2B influencer marketing agency Creator Authority in an all-cash, multimillion-dollar deal with an earnout, its first-ever acquisition.

Oct 15
Retail-media

Retail media’s measurement mess is piling up on CMOs

Business Insider’s Lara O’Reilly reports that with over 200 retail media networks now competing for budgets, an ISBA and MediaSense audit of five major UK networks found five different definitions of an “attributed sale.”

Sep 30
Ad-tech

Taboola to acquire finance adtech rival Dianomi for up to $36.1 million

Taboola has agreed to buy UK adtech firm Dianomi for £19 million upfront, roughly $25.4 million, rising to £27 million if performance targets are met.

Sep 22