OpenWeb Acquires Hive Media Group

HeadsUp Entertainment Acquires Gaming Hive Ltd.

May 17, 2023

Cloud & SaaS

HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc. has agreed to acquire Gaming Hive Ltd., a UK-based SaaS fundraising and gaming platform founded by Dan Bream. The acquisition is intended to augment HeadsUp's technical solutions portfolio by adding Gaming Hive's hosted fundraising platform, integrations, and bespoke customization capabilities for charitable organizations.

HubSpot Acquires The Hustle

February 3, 2021

Media & Entertainment

HubSpot has signed an agreement to acquire The Hustle, a digital media company known for its daily newsletter, podcast and premium research subscription. The acquisition expands HubSpot's content and audience capabilities to better serve entrepreneurs and scaling companies across newsletters, podcasts and research offerings.

OpenWeb Acquires Jeeng for $100M

January 26, 2023

Marketing & Advertising

OpenWeb acquired audience-management and personalized messaging platform Jeeng in a $100 million deal to expand its first-party data and personalized marketing capabilities. The acquisition integrates Jeeng’s team and technology into OpenWeb’s community engagement platform to enhance publishers’ ability to deliver contextualized, one-to-one messaging across email, push and other channels.

Hawke Media Acquires MediaBuyers LLC and MediaBuyers.com

March 18, 2021

Marketing & Advertising

Hawke Media has acquired the MediaBuyers.com domain and added MediaBuyers LLC to its agency portfolio, bringing print and offline media planning and buying capabilities into Hawke’s digital-first marketing services. MediaBuyers owner Rod Hunsaker will join Hawke as an executive on the Business Development team as the companies integrate to offer expanded omnichannel media buying for clients.

BrandMaker Acquires Marketing SaaS Hive9

September 8, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

BrandMaker, a portfolio company of Rubicon Technology Partners, has acquired Hive9, a marketing planning, budgeting and performance management SaaS provider based in Austin, Texas. The deal expands BrandMaker’s marketing operations suite (including Allocadia) to better serve mid-market and enterprise CMOs with end-to-end planning, attribution and performance capabilities; terms were not disclosed.

CafeMedia Acquires Slickstream from Hivepoint

August 24, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

CafeMedia has acquired Slickstream, an audience engagement and content-discovery product for independent publishers, from Hivepoint. The acquisition gives CafeMedia ownership of Slickstream's technology and products for bloggers and allows the company to integrate reader engagement, search, and recommendation features into its CafeMedia and AdThrive publisher networks.