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MarTech Alliance: Black LUMAscape’ Highlights Black-Owned MarTech Businesses

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NBC News: Facebook prepares to dig in as advertising boycott continues

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Adweek: The Pandemic Is Testing Ad Tech’s Business Model

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Bloomberg Radio: Streaming Wars Will Be In Full Throttle All Year

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Adweek: What Will Drive the Next Wave of M&A in MarTech

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AdAge: Kawaja’s CES “Election” Tweet

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Adweek: 2019: The Year of Ad-Tech Darwinism

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Ad Age Ad Lib: Terence Kawaja Talks CTV Streaming Wars and More

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Bloomberg Radio: Kawaja on Digital and Streaming Competition

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Optimizely: 2019 ANA Masters of Marketing: Top Three Takeaways

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Ad Age: The Blurring of D-To-C and Established Brands

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Beet.TV: Privacy Outcry Means Uncertainty But Recovery

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Modern Retail: ‘It’s safer to sell pickaxes than mine for gold’: New infrastructure companies are capitalizing on the DTC boom

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Content TV: Entrepreneurship, Technology & Start Ups at LUMA’s DMS Conference

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AdExchanger: Three Investment Trends To Watch In 2019

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Beet.TV: Charting The Rise Of Direct-to-Consumer Brands with LUMA’s Kawaja

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Beet.TV: Beet is Toasted in Vegas by the Greats: Irwin Gotlieb, Dave Morgan, Terry Kawaja, Randall Rothenberg and Kirk McDonald

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Warc: Can legacy brands compete with direct-to-consumer rivals?

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Direct-to-Consumer Brand Success Offers Lessons for All Marketers

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MediaVillage: LUMA Partners CEO Terry Kawaja to Speak at the Video Everywhere Summit

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Campaign US: Here’s Why Traditional Advertisers Should Fire Their CMO

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Page Six: Super Yachts Take Over Cannes Lions

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The Drum: LUMA CEO Says Outlook For Digital Advertising Ecosystem Remains Optimistic

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Beet.TV: Kawaja’s Three Reasons For Digital Media Optimism

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AdExchanger: Quarterly M&A Reports: Digital Media Companies Capitalize On Growing Exit Opportunities

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Oracle Data Cloud: Navigating the MarTech ecosystem with Terence Kawaja, Founder & CEO, LUMA Partners

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Business Insider: Investment Bank Presentation Breaks Down the Complicated Digital Ad Industry In 2016

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WSJ: Why Venture Capitalists Are Betting on Marketing Tech Over Ad Tech

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The Drum: Terry Kawaja, CEO of LUMA Partners, On The Power of First Party Data

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Business Insider: Why Chinese firms keep paying big bucks for ad-tech companies

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The Drum: Cannes gets its very own Carpool Karaoke as LUMA Partners CEO Terence Kawaja puts himself in the driver’s seat

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Medium: Winter May be Here but Spring is Coming…

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Beet.TV: Ad Threats & Consolidation In Kawaja’s ‘House Of Cards’

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Business Insider: This Investment Bank Presentation is a Crash Course on Everything You Need to Know About Digital Media in 2016

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CNBC: New Twists in Redstone Saga

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Ad Exchanger: LUMA Partner Brian Andersen: Finding The Hot Spots In A Cooling Market

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Fortune: How Ziff Davis Survived the Death of Print

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The Wall Street Journal: Digital Media M&A Keeps Up the Pace

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Advertising Age: Back to ‘Mad Men’ — What the Future Holds for Ad Agencies

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Business Insider: Everything You Need to Know About the State of TV Right Now

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The Mobile Majority: Ad Tech Consolidation – What Comes after the LUMAscape?

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The Wall Street Journal: Digital Media M&A Accelerated in First Half of 2015

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Wall Street Journal: In Cannes, the Ad Tech Flotilla is at Full Steam

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CNBC: Investors Will Be ‘Mindful’ of FitBit Valuation

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Business Insider: The Future of Digital Media

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Chiefmartech: A Candid Fireside Chat with 4 Heavyweights in Martech Money

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AOL: AOL’s Tim Armstrong to Keynote LUMA Partners’ Annual AdTech CEO Fest

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Business Insider: The Ad Tech Sector: Looks an Awful Lot Like a Bubble That Just Popped

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A Walk Across the LUMAscape

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LUMA Expands the Partnership

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The Wall Street Journal: Outside Voices: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Digital Advertising

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Digiday: Why ad tech is: A) too complicated; and B) going to get more complicated

January 2015

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Ad Exchanger: Industry Preview 2015: Are Enterprise Stacks Shying Away From Media Execution?

December 2014

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Beet.Tv: AdTech Banker Kawaja: Video Ad Platforms Need to Differentiate

September 2014

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Beet.Tv: “TAM” is the Huge Upside for AdTech, Beyond Digital Media

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Business Insider: An Investment Banker Made This Music Video Documenting the Lavish Parties of the Cannes Advertising Festival

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Beet.TV: Fragmentation Happens, So Get Used To It

June 2014

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MediaPost: Fear and Greed and You

May 2014

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Huffington Post: Mega Media Mergers Point to the “Converged TV World of our Future,” Banker Terence Kawaja

May 2014

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Beet.Tv: Kawaja- TV Buyers Must Be Slow-Rolled to Programmatic

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Forbes: The Future of T.V.: Digital, Traditional and Something in Between

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Color by Numbers: A Valuation Framework for the Ad Tech Sector

December 2013

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Rocket Fuel and the Revitalization of Ad Tech

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Battelle Media: Why the Banner Ad is Heroic and Adtech is our Greatest Technology Artifact

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WSJ: Why Does it Take So Many Companies to Produce One Digital Ad?

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Advertising Age: Ad-Tech Companies Struggle to Sell Themselves to Wall Street

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Adweek: IAB Unveils Own Ad Tech Org Chart

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W&V: Big Data Prevents Consolidation in the Digital Advertising Market

February 2013

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AdExchanger: LUMA’s Terry Kawaja Says Ad Tech Consolidation-Including ‘Fails’ – Is Here. And It’s Good.

January 2013

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Harvard Log Blog: When Consumers Become Media for Themselves

November 2012

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Gigaom: Second-Screen Hopefuls Hard-Pressed to Disrupt Hollywood ‘Cabal’

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Adweek: Ad Wreck

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The Makegood: Terence Kawaja on LUMA Partners’ Unique Investment Banking Approach

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Forbes: Did the Bubble in Facebook Ad Startups Just Pop?

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WSJ: Chart This: 160 “Strategic Buyers” of Tech Companies

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AdExchanger: The Golden Age of Advertising

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Forbes: Marketers, Get Ready: ‘All Advertising Soon Will Be Digital’

June 2012

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MediaPost: Fighting the LUMA Chart: Criteo’s Greg Coleman Lets the Numbers Do the Talking

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WSJ: Ad-Tech Companies Seize Rivals as Winners

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Gigaom: The Backstory on the Most Frequently Cited Chart in Digital Media

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Gigaom: Does Digital Advertising Need its Own Operation System?

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iMedia Connection: How to Simplify the Display Landscape

April 2012

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Digiday: Ad Tech’s Me-Too Problem

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