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Cision

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Cision is a global consumer and media intelligence and communications platform for PR and corporate communications, marketing, and social media professionals. It provides media monitoring and measurement, influencer and social media tools, and PR distribution/communication services through brands such as CisionOne, Brandwatch, and PR Newswire.

Focus Areas
Media Monitoring & Measurement, PR Tech, Social Media Management
Website
www.cision.com

Tracked deals

4

4 tracked deals across 2019-2025.

Recent pace

1

1 tracked deal announced in the last 12 months.

Deal mix

Buyout

3 buyout · 1 addon

Cision Acquisition Volume by Year

Last 3 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 3 years for Cision. 2 2019 1 2022 1 2025

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

  • Buyer
    Cision
    Target
    Trajaan
    Location
    Île-de-France, France
    Type
    Buyout

    Cision has acquired Trajaan, a Paris-based search intelligence platform, to accelerate Cision's AI and data strategy and integrate always-on, geo-localized search behavior and generative AI analytics across its products. The deal builds on a prior Brandwatch–Trajaan partnership and aims to give marketing, communications and insights teams unified, predictive visibility into consumer intent and trend formation.

  • April 3, 2022
    Buyer
    Cision
    Target
    Streem
    Location
    New South Wales, Australia
    Type
    Addon

    Cision, a Platinum Equity–backed global communications intelligence company, has completed the acquisition of Streem, a real-time media monitoring and insights platform serving the Australia and New Zealand market. Streem will continue to operate as an independent brand with its management team retained, and the deal (sale of 100% of Streem shares) strengthens Cision’s media intelligence offering across ANZ as an add-on to its platform.

  • Buyer
    Falcon.io, Cision
    Target
    Unmetric
    Type
    Buyout

    Falcon.io, the social media management division of Cision, has acquired Unmetric to integrate Unmetric’s social benchmarking and historical content performance insights into Falcon.io’s social media marketing platform. The acquisition is intended to expand Falcon.io’s analytics and benchmarking capabilities and provide a unified social content, engagement and insights offering to brands and agencies.

  • January 23, 2019
    Buyer
    Cision
    Target
    TrendKite
    Industry
    Data & Analytics
    Type
    Buyout

    Cision has acquired Austin-based Digital PR analytics platform TrendKite in a deal reported at $225 million, adding TrendKite's AI-powered measurement and attribution capabilities to the Cision Communications Cloud. TrendKite CEO Erik Huddleston will become President of Cision as the companies integrate TrendKite's measurement, influencer management and analytics into Cision's global earned-media platform.

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