M&A Deal Summary

RhythmOne Acquires Grab Media

On January 1, 2013, RhythmOne acquired information technology company Grab Media

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is RhythmOne’s 1st transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is RhythmOne’s 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is RhythmOne’s 1st transaction in Vermont.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2013-01-01
Target Grab Media
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) RhythmOne
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) M.E.S.A. Securities, Inc. (dba MESA Global) (Financial)

Target

Grab Media

Herndon, Vermont, United States
Grab Media is a premium video distribution company. It connects premium video content from a wide collection of professional sources and brand-name advertisers to ideal viewers.

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Buyer

RhythmOne

San Francisco, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 2004
Sector Internet Software and Services
Employees316
Revenue 167M USD (2016)
DESCRIPTION

RhythmOne plc is an Internet media company that connects consumers and brands through premium content online. Founded in the UK in 2004, blinkx pioneered Internet Video Search using its patented COncept Recognition Engine (CORE). This technology leverages speech recognition, text and image analysis to deeply understand the meaning and context of video content to generate improved search relevancy for consumers and a brand safe environment for advertisers.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 9
Sector (Information Technology) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 3 of 9
State (Vermont) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 3 of 9
Year (2013) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-11-09 Prime Visibility

New York, New York, United States

Prime Visibility LLC is a provider of contextual and behavioral advertising solutions for advertisers and publishers through its own online ad network, and Prime Visibility, a rapidly expanding search engine marketing (SEM) company specializing in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay-Per-Click (PPC) and PPC Search Engine Internet Marketing.

Buy £22M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-12-03 Rhythm NewMedia

Mountain View, California, United States

Rhythm NewMedia, Inc. is a company enabling ad-supported mobile media, end-to-end. Rhythm’s solution is designed to support advertising on mobile video, WAP/HTML, mobile search, and mobile messaging.

Buy $65M
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