"Merger and acquisition activity is swirling in ad tech. With economic volatility, there are tighter public markets, and private ad ...
"Now that more than 80% of digital display ads are being bought programmatically, it makes less sense for ad agencies to keep their direct sales and programmatic teams isolated from each other. In a May 2018 survey of 104 US digital media buyers conducted by Centro and Forrester Consulting, three-fourths of respondents indicated that they are beginning to unify their direct and programmatic teams. However, just 17% said that their direct and programmatic teams have fully converged."
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