synopsis: Gannett has acquired the ownership stakes of partners Tribune Company and The McClatchy Company in ShopLocal LLC, the top marketing and database services company for most major retailers in the USA. ShopLocal will work in conjunction with PointRoll to create ads that dynamically connect retail advertisers and consumers, online and in the store.

synopsis: City Rewards Network, a national internet advertising company specializing in internet coupon ads for retail businesses, has been acquired by Reward Media Group. Reward Media Group takes localized Internet concepts and replicates them through a licensing model around the country.

synopsis: W Technologies, Inc.'s subsidiary, SoMo Technologies has acquired the assets of GottaGoText. It is a Las Vegas, Nevada based company that provides a variety of effective social media and mobile marketing advertising services including SMS text message local advertising programs for retail businesses.

synopsis: W Technologies, Inc.'s subsidiary, SoMo Technologies has acquired the assets of Hot Deals Network. It is a Las Vegas, Nevada based company that provides a variety of effective social media and mobile marketing advertising services including SMS text message local advertising programs for retail businesses.

synopsis: Vendio Services Inc., a multi-channel e-commerce solution for small-to-medium sized businesses has acquired SingleFeed a comparison shopping engine feed management and analytics company.

synopsis: Automatic Data Processing, Inc., announced early that ADP has completed its acquisition of Cobalt for approximately $400 million, in cash. Cobalt is North America's leading provider of digital marketing solutions to the automotive industry.

synopsis: Skimlinks announced that it had acquired content monetization firm Atma Links. Already innovation leaders in the space, Skimlinks will merge the Atma Links technology with its own affiliate marketing platform to offer its publishers and partners the first real-time in-text product identification and price comparison service.

synopsis: DataXu, provider of the industry's #1 ranked demand-side platform (DSP), announced that it has acquired the leading European DSP, Mexad. With access to over 20 billion Real Time Bidding ad impressions per day, Mexad purchases the relevant ad placements at the right time for the right user for its media-agency clients.

synopsis: Digital Window acquired Newcastle-based Perfiliate Ltd., which operates one of the leading affiliate marketing networks under the brand name Buy.at. Together Digital Window and Buy.at form Britain’s largest performance-based marketing group, serving customers in the UK, USA and Scandinavia. Buy.at was previously part of AOL Inc.

synopsis: AOL announced that it has acquired buy.at, a leading independent affiliate network that provides a platform for performance-based e-commerce marketing programs to advertisers and publishers. buy.at will operate as a wholly-owned business unit of Advertising.com, part of AOL’s Platform-A organization.

synopsis: Marketing services and print group St. Ives Plc has acquired Twickenham-based retail and consumer consultancy Pragma Consulting Ltd. The company provides marketing strategy and market research services to its clients.

synopsis: WPP has agreed to acquire all the assets of privately held Blue State Digital, LLC in the United States and the United Kingdom through WPP Digital. Blue State Digital is a full-service agency that provides integrated digital marketing strategy as well as a Web-based licensed software platform to help organizations build communities online.

synopsis: AIMS Worldwide, Inc., a marketing services company providing clients with integrated, impactful, cost-effective and measurable solutions, announced it has sold Target America, one of its operating businesses, to Blackbaud, Inc., the global leading provider of software and services to nonprofits.

synopsis: Harte-Hanks, Inc. a worldwide direct and targeted marketing company, announced today its acquisition of Mason Zimbler Limited, a full-service integrated digital marketing agency specializing in the technology sector. Mason Zimbler is based in the United Kingdom.

synopsis: Omnicom Group Inc. the leading global advertising and marketing services group, has entered into an agreement to acquire, through its Diversified Agency Services group, a majority ownership interest in Gotocustomer Services India.

synopsis: Pitney Bowes Inc. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Advertising Audit Service (AAS) and PMH Caramanning. PMH Caramanning designs and manages customer and channel performance solutions.

synopsis: Allied Capital Corporation announced today that it has committed $65.2 million of financing to support the buyout of Promo Works, L.L.C. by private equity firm Eos Partners.

synopsis: MediaWhiz, a rapidly growing provider of performance-based online marketing services, has acquired Atlanta-based Online Media Promotions, LLC, which is known in the industry as Monetizeit. This acquisition expands MediaWhiz’s online marketing services platform to give it deep expertise in a number of lead generation vertical markets.

synopsis: Meredith Corporation, one of America's leading media and marketing companies, announced today that it has acquired O'Grady Meyers, an interactive marketing services firm that specializes in online customer relationship marketing (CRM).

synopsis: Mozes, Inc. announced that it has acquired Nashville based Hurricane Interactive Promotions, a leader in live concert mobile phone promotions. With this acquisition Mozes expands its presence in the influential Nashville music market and broadens its offerings in live concert promotions.

synopsis: Gannett has acquired the ownership stakes of partners Tribune Company and The McClatchy Company in ShopLocal LLC, the top marketing and database services company for most major retailers in the USA. ShopLocal will work in conjunction with PointRoll to create ads that dynamically connect retail advertisers and consumers, online and in the store.

synopsis: Gannett Co., Inc.'s PointRoll has acquired Rovion, a Boston-based, rich-media advertising company, which is owned by Local Corporation. Rovion's primary product, Ad Composer, includes a self-service technology platform that enables the full development and deployment of rich media and mobile HTML5 ads without requiring coding expertise.

synopsis: Gannett has acquired the ownership stakes of partners Tribune Company and The McClatchy Company in ShopLocal LLC, the top marketing and database services company for most major retailers in the USA. ShopLocal will work in conjunction with PointRoll to create ads that dynamically connect retail advertisers and consumers, online and in the store.

synopsis: Gannett Co., Inc. acquired the stock of PointRoll, Inc., the leading rich media marketing company that provides internet user friendly, non-intrusive technology that lets advertisers expand their space online and receive a more measurable impact from their online advertising campaigns.

synopsis: AOL LLC today announced that it has acquired broadband video advertising innovator Lightningcast, Inc. of Washington, D.C. AOL's acquisition agreement with Lightningcast is dated May 5th, and closed on May 17th. Financial terms were not disclosed. Lightningcast was previously privately held.

synopsis: Rogers Media Inc. has struck a deal to acquire Montreal-based Internet advertising company BV! Media Inc. for $25 million in cash. BV! Media is a leading Canadian Internet advertising network and is the publisher of the Branchez-Vous! news and information portal, which has wide use in Quebec.

synopsis: Media conglomerate Cox Enterprises Inc., betting its future on Internet advertising as newspaper and television audiences shrink, plans to spend $300 million to buy a startup that helps Web sites pool their ad space. The all-cash deal with Adify Corp. represents the latest evolution for the Cox media company.

synopsis: Microsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire AdECN, Inc., an advertising exchange platform company based near Santa Barbara, Calif. AdECN's technology serves as a hub where advertising networks can come together in a neutral, real-time auction marketplace for buying and selling display advertising.

synopsis: Nautic Partners, LLC, a private equity firm with more than $2.3 billion of capital under management, has acquired Respond2 Communications, Inc., in partnership with Respond2 management. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Respond2 is the largest independently owned full-service direct response advertising agency in the United States.

synopsis: Traffix, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRFX), a leading on-line marketing company, today announced that it has acquired Hot Rocket Marketing Inc., a privately held on-line media and marketing agency based in New York.

synopsis: Viewpoint Corporation, a leading provider of Internet graphics and delivery systems, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Unicast Communications Corporation, a recognized leader in rich media ad solutions.

synopsis: DG, a leading provider of digital media solutions and technology, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Limelight Networks, Inc.'s EyeWonder video and rich media advertising unit. EyeWonder is a leading provider of interactive digital advertising products and services, including online video and rich media solutions.

synopsis: KIT digital, Inc., the leading global provider of video asset management solutions (VAMs) for multi-screen IP-based delivery, has acquired Accela Communications, Inc., a privately-held provider of on-demand, video-based enablement and measurement tools.

synopsis: Limelight Networks, Inc. announced the completion of the acquisition of EyeWonder, Inc. Since 1999, EyeWonder has been an innovator in developing monetization solutions that helps Forbes 2000 advertisers, interactive agencies and content publishers create, build, track and optimize rich media and interactive video advertising campaigns.

synopsis: StrongMail Systems, Inc., the leading provider of commercial-grade solutions for marketing and transactional email, announced that is has acquired PopularMedia, a leading provider of social media marketing solutions.

synopsis: Theorem, Inc., an online media operations and data services company, has acquired Webpencil, an online creative ad design company. The deal augments Theorem’s capabilities by enabling it to offer creative and rich media expertise to its clients. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

synopsis: WPP has acquired Vancouver-based Blast Radius, a strategic interactive agency with offices in Amsterdam, New York, London, Toronto and San Francisco. Following Closing, Blast Radius will be aligned with WPP's Wunderman network, the second largest marketing services and relationship marketing network.

synopsis: EyeWonder, Inc., interactive digital advertising's fastest growing innovator, has acquired Cologne, Germany-based vendi interactive, one of the country's leading digital interactive advertising firms and vendor of online-streaming-spots.

synopsis: Mace Security International, Inc. has completed the previously announced acquisition of Linkstar Interactive on July 20, 2007. Linkstar is a growing and profitable online and digital marketing company, devoted to bringing proprietary unique consumer goods and services to a wide audience in an e-commerce environment.

synopsis: Respond2 Communications, the largest independent full-service direct response television agency in the country, has acquired Rhode Island-based Marketing & Media Services Inc., which will expand the capabilities of its media planning and buying division Cmedia to include expansive per inquiry DRTV services to its clients.

synopsis: As part of its ongoing growth and investment programme, independent integrated agency BD Network announced the acquisition of the UK’s leading creative mobile agency, We Love Mobile.

synopsis: Meredith Corporation announced that it has completed its acquisition of mobile marketing specialist The Hyperfactory. The acquisition further enhances the capabilities of Meredith Integrated Marketing, the company's business-to-business unit that provides leading corporations and brands with custom marketing solutions.

synopsis: Amobee Media Systems, the world leader in advertising solutions for mobile operators, announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the world's largest mobile advertising agency, RingRing Media.

synopsis: Jingwei International Ltd ("Jingwei"), a leading provider of data-mining, interactive marketing and software services in China, announced that its subsidiary has entered into an Agreement to dispose of its legacy media business in Beijing New Media Advertising Co. Ltd. to Mr. George Du, the CEO, President and Chairman of Jingwei.