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Digiday: ‘A significant uptick in deal flow’: Why Europe is becoming a hotbed of ad tech innovation

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Epsilon: Lessons from the DTC Revolution

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Adweek: Ad Tech’s Top Investment Banker on Who Will and Won’t Survive the Pandemic Paralysis

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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: How Covid Will Change How We Consume Media

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Superpowers: The Stand Up Investment Banker

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Digiday: A function of confidence’: Uncertainty casts a shadow over M&A deals

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Beet.TV: ‘There’s a Lot at Stake’ in the Streaming Wars

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Digiday: ‘Nuclear winter’: Ad Tech Enters the Vulture Capital Era

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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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AdExchanger: Ad Tech M&A Was Up Across the Board in 2019

January 2020

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AdAge: Kawaja’s CES “Election” Tweet

December 2019

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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

October 2019

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Bloomberg Radio: Kawaja on Digital and Streaming Competition

October 2019

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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

September 2019

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Beet.TV: Privacy Outcry Means Uncertainty But Recovery

July 2019

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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

July 2019

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Talking Stack: LUMA Digital Brief 2019 + Why Data Activation Matters | 50

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AdExchanger: What’s On Tap For Dynamic Yield After The McDonald’s Acquisition

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

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Beet.TV: Identity Tech Will Figure In Media M&A

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Business Insider: Accenture Interactive Exec Says It’s ‘Time to Put The Checkbook Away’

May 2019

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Business Insider: ‘S4 is too small, too narrow, and too yesterday’

May 2019

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AdExchanger: McDonald’s Looks To Emulate Amazon; Is S4 ‘Too Yesterday’?

April 2019

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Westwood One and LeadsRx Debut First-Ever Direct-To-Consumer Media Attribution and Awareness Report

April 2019

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AdExchanger: Black Eyes Aside, Ad Tech Actually Had A Decent Q1

April 2019

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AdExchanger: Why IBM Is Leaving The Marketing Cloud Business

February 2019

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The Drum: DTC Brands Are Shunning Digital For TV And Real-World Events

February 2019

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AdExchanger: DTC Adoption Will Help Make TV A Performance Medium

January 2019

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AdExchanger: Three Investment Trends To Watch In 2019

January 2019

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

January 2019

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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

January 2019

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AdAge: Brand Playbook: Learn the ABCs to DTC

January 2019

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AdExchanger: MarTech Is Booming, PE Is Hungry And ‘There’s Blood In The Water’ For Ad Tech

December 2018

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AdAge: 10 Biggest Stories of 2018

December 2018

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AdExchanger: TV: The Biggest Opportunity For DTC Brands’ Continued Growth

December 2018

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

November 2018

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Marketing Week: The Threat of Direct-To-Consumer Disruption is Seriously Overblown

November 2018

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

October 2018

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AdAge: One of the Biggest Changes in Marketing LUMA’s Kawaja on Direct-to-Consumer Trend

October 2018

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AdAge: Fire Your CMO? This Year’s ANA Meeting Was Full of Heat

October 2018

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AdAge: P&G’s Pritchard At The ANA Confab on How To Combat The Direct-To-Consumer Threat

October 2018

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

October 2018

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

October 2018

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MediaPost: New LUMAscapes To Come: Q&A with LUMA’s Terry Kawaja

October 2018

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Business Insider: TV Executives Are Vowing to Work Together — But Buyers Are Getting Impatient

September 2018

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Beet.TV: After “Summer of Data,“ Ad-Tech M&A is Far From Over: Kawaja

September 2018

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AdExchanger: The 2018 Summer of Data

September 2018

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Beet.TV: LUMA’s Kawaja: Less Interruptive Ads Are Central To Relevance

August 2018

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Adweek: How Long Can The Trade Desk Ride Its Current Wave of Success

August 2018

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The New York Times: Google-Facebook Dominance Hurts Ad Tech Firms, Speeding Consolidation

July 2018

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ZEDO: The Match.com for Ad Tech

July 2018

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AdExchanger: Podcast – Terry Kawaja’s World View

June 2018

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Cheddar: Media Merger Frenzy: What Will be AT&T’s Next Move?

June 2018

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The Drum: AT&T Reportedly in Talks to Buy AppNexus

June 2018

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The Drum: Experts Tip a Flood of More M&A Activity After AT&T and Time Warner Deal

June 2018

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AdExchanger: AT&T-Time Warner Merger Will Jumpstart Positive Deal Momentum

May 2018

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Beet.TV: Kawaja Fears Knee-Jerk Politicians Will Turn Back Clock on Ad Targeting

May 2018

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The Drum: What Sir Martin Sorrell Thinks He’ll do Post WPP

May 2018

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City A.M: Sir Martin Sorrell Sheds Light on How He Plans to ‘Start Again’ After WPP

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CNBC: What Former WPP Chief Sir Martin Sorrell Plans to do Next

May 2018

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AdExchanger: Overheard at LUMA: Relevant Pubs Will Win, Everyone Else Will Fail

May 2018

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WSJ: Sir Martin Sorrell Weighs in on Need for More Media Consolidation

April 2018

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RampUp Minneapolis: 2018 Recap: Content, Context, and Chicken Wings

April 2018

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NBC News: ESPN’s Much-Anticipated Streaming Service is Finally Here

April 2018

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Adweek: The Ad Tech Industry’s Looming Shakeout Could Finally Happen

April 2018

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AdExchanger: M&A Deal Values Are Up In 2018 As Cash-On-Hand and E-Commerce Values Soar

April 2018

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AdAge: Identity is Maintaining the Conversation, Not Just Winning the Conversion

March 2018

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AdExchanger: MarTech Preps as GDPR Looms

February 2018

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AdExchanger: What Is This Thing We Call A CDP?

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Andrew Keen: How To Fix The Future

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Tribune Content Agency: 3 Digital Marketing Trends for 2018 (and How to Take Advantage of Them)

January 2018

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AdExchanger: PwC: Media And Telco ‘Megadeals’ Dominated M&A Deal Value Last Year

January 2018

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Beet.TV: GDRP Will Accelerate People-Based Marketing

January 2018

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The Drum: What Will Drive M&A in the Ad Tech and MarTech Sector in 2018?

January 2018

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Beet.TV: Luma Partners’ Terry Kawaja: With Convergent TV, Scale ‘Is Now On A Whole New Level’

January 2018

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AdExchanger: JEGI and LUMA: MarTech Spends Big While AdTech Cleans Up

January 2018

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The Drum: Engagement is More Important Than Viewability for Effective Ads

December 2017

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AdExchanger: M&A 2017 – The Year Of Simplifying And Strengthening

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AdExchanger: Luma Partners’ Brian Andersen Lays Out Ad Tech’s M&A Potential In 2018

December 2017

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BNN: How Walt Disney is Playing Offense

November 2017

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Business Insider: The Media Industry has Suddenly Become a ‘Game of Thrones’-Like Battle for Power

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AdExchanger: Ray Of Light For Big-Box Retail; Storm Clouds For VC-Backed Media

October 2017

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AdExchanger: The Great Ad Tech Cleanup

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Marketwired: ad:tech New York 2017 Honors Diverse List of Four Top Executives for Collective Industry Impact

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Business Wire: New Study Identifies Key Role Identity Resolution Plays in Cross-Media Measurement

October 2017

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AdExchanger: IAB Seeks to Ease Apple’s Cookie Crunch; PE Mergers Are Coming on Strong

September 2017

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Beet.TV: Amazon Rivals Can Compete Using Intelligence

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Digiday: ‘It’s the Gut of Ad Tech’: Inside the Rise of dmexco

September 2017

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Digiday: ‘I Wanted to Organize This Mess’: An Oral History of the LUMAscape

August 2017

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Stamford Advocate: Content Wars – The Battle for Your TV

July 2017

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AdExchanger: LUMA’s Brian Andersen Predicts M&A Hotspots in the Measurement Space

July 2017

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Digiday: The Duopoly Won’t Kill (All) Ad Tech

July 2017

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The Drum: What Marketers Must Consider When Planning and Executing Programmatic Campaigns

July 2017

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Business Insider: M&A King Terry Kawaja Talks About Snapchat and the Value of Tech Deals in Europe

June 2017

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Beet.TV: AI Will Be Huge, But Hidden

June 2017

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Digiday: Ad Tech’s Biggest Winner and Losers in 2016

June 2017

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Digiday: Battle of the Ad Tech Yachts

June 2017

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Page Six: Super Yachts Take Over Cannes Lions

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WSJ: With Facebook and Google Walled Off, China’s Digital Ad ‘Triopoly’ Thrives

June 2017

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

June 2017

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Forbes: The Meeker Report Is Not The Only Game In Town For Marketers

May 2017

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

April 2017

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MediaVillage: AdTech is an Interesting Place to Be

April 2017

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The Drum: LUMA Partners’ Terry Kawaja: ‘Verticalized media is here to stay’

April 2017

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

April 2017

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

March 2017

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AdExchanger: The Next Debate: The Convergence Of MarTech And Sales Tech

January 2017

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The Drum: What Investors and Strategic Buyers Look For In Adtech and Martech

January 2017

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AdExchanger: LUMA On Omnichannel: It’s Really Starting To Come Together

January 2017

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AdExchanger: M&A 2016: Buyers Cross Boundaries As Ad Tech Grows Up (A Little)

December 2016

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

November 2016

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WSJ: LUMA’s CEO Says Ad Tech Scene is Crowded and Strained

October 2016

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CNBC: AT&T-Time Warner Deal ‘Deja Vu All Over Again’

October 2016

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Multichannel: VR 20/20: Unknowns Abound in Virtual and Augmented Reality Market

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The Drum: What investors and strategic buyers look for in adtech and martech

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AdExchanger: LUMA & JEGI: Ad Tech Companies Shouldn’t Bet On A Chinese Buyout

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Business Insider: Facebook Shifting Focus of Its Tech Platform

September 2016

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LinkedIn: Waiting for Godot: Are MarTech & AdTech Converging?

September 2016

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September 2016

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Madison Avenue Radio: What is a LUMAscape? And Why it is so Influential Today

September 2016

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

August 2016

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

August 2016

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

July 2016

Luma Blog

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June 2016

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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

June 2016

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The Drum: LUMA Partners CEO Terry Kawaja: ‘Chinese companies you never heard of will be the next big acquirers in ad tech’

June 2016

Luma Blog

LUMA’s Digital Media Summit 2016

June 2016

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The Marketing Cloud War Heats Up

May 2016

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Medium: Winter May be Here but Spring is Coming…

May 2016

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

May 2016

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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

May 2016

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CNBC: New Twists in Redstone Saga

May 2016

Luma Blog

Introducing the Knowledge LUMAscape

May 2016

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Verto Analytics: 3 Reasons Mergers and Acquisitions are Booming in the Digital Media & Mobile Ecosystems

May 2016

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LUMA Partners App for iPad by Xtopoly, Inc.

April 2016

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Beet.TV: Judgement Day For Ad-Tech?

March 2016

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The Economist: Invisible Ads, Phantom Readers

March 2016

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Media Post: Only 40% of Digital Buys Going to Working Media

March 2016

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Mediatel Newsline: Diversification is the Fuel for Digital Advertising Success

January 2016

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

December 2015

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Business Insider: Complicated Digital Marketing Industry for Normal People

December 2015

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Medium: Why People Love the LUMAscape

November 2015

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Advertising Age: Digital Advertising Gets Bloody

October 2015

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Fortune: How Ziff Davis Survived the Death of Print

October 2015

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

September 2015

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

August 2015

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Digiday: The Race to the Single Platform Has Begun

August 2015

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

July 2015

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

July 2015

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

June 2015

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

June 2015

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CNBC: Investors Will Be ‘Mindful’ of FitBit Valuation

June 2015

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Business Insider: The Future of Digital Media

June 2015

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

May 2015

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

May 2015

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

May 2015

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A Walk Across the LUMAscape

April 2015

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LUMA Expands the Partnership

March 2015

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

February 2015

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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

July 2014

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

July 2014

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Business Insider: The Future Of TV

June 2014

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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

March 2014

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

January 2014

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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

November 2013

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

November 2013

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

July 2013

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

July 2013

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

May 2013

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Introducing the Marketing Technology LUMAscape

February 2013

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Adweek: IAB Unveils Own Ad Tech Org Chart

February 2013

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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’

November 2012

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Adweek: Ad Wreck

October 2012

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

October 2012

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

September 2012

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Business Insider: A Super Detailed Graphic Laying Out All the Biggest Tech Acquirers

September 2012

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

June 2012

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AdExchanger: The Golden Age of Advertising

June 2012

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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

June 2012

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WSJ: Ad-Tech Companies Seize Rivals as Winners

June 2012

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

May 2012

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Gigaom: Does Digital Advertising Need its Own Operation System?

May 2012

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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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