Ziff Davis Acquires 1TwentyFour and CellRebel

Ziff Davis Acquires Dwell, Domino and Business of Home From Recurrent Ventures

May 3, 2026

Media & Entertainment

Ziff Davis acquired Dwell, Domino and Business of Home from Recurrent Ventures for undisclosed financial terms, expanding its portfolio into lifestyle and home media. Popular Science was also included in the transaction and will join Ziff Davis's Technology division.

Ziff Davis Acquires theSkimm (equity) and Maxroll (asset)

April 2, 2025

Media & Entertainment

Ziff Davis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZD) announced two Q1 2025 acquisitions: an equity investment in digital media company theSkimm (United States) and an asset acquisition of gaming media site Maxroll (Netherlands). Terms were not disclosed and the company said the deals are not expected to be material to Ziff Davis' financials; the transactions expand Ziff Davis’ global customer base and product lineup while providing access to new markets.

Ziff Davis Acquires CNET

October 1, 2024

Media & Entertainment

Ziff Davis (NASDAQ: ZD) completed an acquisition of CNET in Q3 2024. The deal is described as growing Ziff Davis' global customer base, opening new markets, and expanding its product lineup; terms were not disclosed by Ziff Davis in the Q3 2024 completion update.

Ziff Davis Acquires Lifehacker (asset)

April 6, 2023

Media & Entertainment

Ziff Davis, Inc. completed the acquisition of the Lifehacker asset in Q1 2023. The purchase (terms not disclosed) is intended to grow Ziff Davis's global audience, provide access to new markets and expand its product lineup.

Ookla Acquires CellRebel

July 27, 2022

Telecommunications

Seattle-based connectivity intelligence firm Ookla has acquired CellRebel, a Sweden-based telecom analytics company, to enhance Ookla’s consumer network experience insights and analytics capabilities. The deal adds CellRebel’s large-scale real-world measurement datasets and visualization tools to Ookla’s portfolio to better serve operators, CDNs, and other telecom customers worldwide.

J2 Global Completes Four Q3 2021 Acquisitions and a Divestiture

October 5, 2021

Media & Entertainment

J2 Global, Inc. (later renamed Ziff Davis) completed four small acquisitions — Solutelia, BigLinker, Diabetes Daily and Arthur L. Davis Publishing Agency — during Q3 2021 to broaden its customer base, enter new markets and expand its product and content offerings. The company also divested a group of B2B cloud-based backup businesses operating under the LiveVault, OffsiteDataSync and KeepItSafe brands; terms were not disclosed and the deals were described as immaterial to overall financials.