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MeadiaOcean is a media and software advertising company based in New York City, with offices located in London, Chicago, Tel Aviv, Pune and Sydney. [1]
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Company type | Private company |
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Industry | Advertising, information technology |
Predecessors | MediaBank, Donovan Data Systems |
Founded | March 2012 |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Bill Wise (co-founder & CEO) [2] |
Revenue | $400 million [3] |
Number of employees | 1200 (2021) |
Website | www.mediaocean.com |
Mediaocean is an advertising services and software company, headquartered in New York City. [4]
Mediaocean was founded in 2012 through the merger of advertising technology companies Donovan Data Systems and MediaBank, [7] which the companies announced the year before. [8]
Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Mediaocean in 2015. [9] In May of that same year, Mediaocean acquired TView, a television planning system from Stone House Systems, Inc. in Chicago, and in May 2016, Mediaocean acquired ColSpace, a provider of cloud-based, collaborative media-planning software.
In September 2017, Mediaocean announced its partnership with 4C to improve cross-channel marketing. [10] In 2018, Vista Equity Partner explored a sale of Mediaocean. [11] In 2019, Mediaocean added the SpotX platform to its system and signed a contract with WideOrbit, a TV programmatic company. [12] In January 2020, Mediaocean acquired Paris-based media management software provider MBS. [13] Later that year, Mediaocean announced the acquisition of Chicago-based data science and media technology company 4C Insights. [14]
In July 2021, Mediaocean announced the acquisition of advertising server company Flashtalking. [15] The following month, Mediaocean announced that the stake in its company held by Vista Equity Partners was being acquired by CVC Capital Partners, along with TA Associates. [16] [17] [18]
Mediaocean is managed by CEO Bill Wise as of 2020. Other executives are: [19] [20]