Video and connected TV adtech vendor Tremor International has purchased Amobee, which offers its own cross-channel ad platform.  The seller was Singtel and the price was $239 million, considerably less than the $321 million that Singtel paid for Tremor in 2012.  But that was long ago and far away.

Industry-specific CDP packages are one of the industry’s major trends.  Tealium advanced in that direction today with release of Tealium for Pharma, which includes tight integrations with widely-used pharma tech vendors Veeva, Doceree, and DMD.  The package also includes pharma-specific data models, segmentations, and use cases.

This IAB study finds that connected TV and paid search are expected to be the fastest-growing ad channels next year, while linear TV and other traditional media continue to shrink.  More intriguing: marketers are focusing more investment on foundational tools like measurement and first party data, and less on specific ad channels.  Download for deep dives into retail media networks and the metaverse.